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HOME  Video #795 - Seal 7" TFT LCD Monitor with Tuner
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#795 - Seal 7" TFT LCD Monitor with Tuner |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Monday, 26 March 2007 |
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Operation:
While testing the Seal TV-1007, id went through all the menu settings and found them to be very simplistic and easy to use. There are controls for Picture quality, Volume, screen Options, signal input System options, tuner Presets, and Clock functions. On the Option screen, the first option gives you the ability to flip the screen upside down, or reverse left or right. This is handy in overhead installations into a vehicle.
   
   
   
The second option located on the Options screen shows the term Zoom. This is more like ratio stretch if you ask me. Some have mentioned the odd pixel ration of the screen (960x336) and it is odd. This does not follow any standard signal ratios. What they have done is provided a slightly larger screen and given you the ability to stretch your video signal across the added pixel space. This will obviously blur the signal coming into the monitor and more of a nuisance than anything. A proper pixel ration would have definitely been preferred.
Using a standard DVD player, using composite output, I connected the Seal TV-1007 and played my Monsters Inc. DVD in widescreen mode. You can see the difference.
  
Testing the screen with the built-in TV tuner, signal reception was very weak. Only a few times, in the house, vehicle and open areas did I find a good enough signal strength to pick up a clean visual signal along with audio. If you are thinking about this unit as a mobile TV, you might want to make sure your travels hop between the radio towers as that is about the only way you will pick up a good signal. Below is an image of the best signal I could muster even with fine tuning. Even at this, I still had no audio.
Utilizing the TV output on my x1600's, I tested WiMP11. As you can see, first is the standard 4:3 signal and the second is the signal stretched. This theory works, but is not the greatest on the eyes and I can only see this being beneficial if you have a TV tuner in your system and want to use a separate display rather than your main monitor.
 
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