TV purchasing advice

[18MM]

Can anyone give buying recommendations for a TV:

We currently have Freesat through a Humax box and then our Tivo and then a really old B&O TV

Am I right in thinking that a Freesat TV will allow Live Freesat TV to be watched while the Freesat box and Tivo record something else? If so does this apply to all such TVs or is there something I should be looking for in particular?

Any brand / model recommendations appreciated. Not bothered about 3D, can get internet by ethernet connection to computer so direct internet may not be a big deal. Looking for 40".

Also someone told me that they found the image through their TV onto their 42" TV to be blurry - i.e. Tivo couldn't cope with the size, even when recorded on "Best Quality". Is this the case and can it be overcome?

[mrtickle]

Some TVs are really crap at upscaling any SD image to HD. The results are very variable between manufacturers - Samsungs are very good at scaling, I've watched my tytool DVDs on my mate's 42" Samsung and they looked great.

[18MM]

It was a Samsung that the person was using a TiVo with!

[nick1austin]

In my opinion the most effective way to mix HD and SD viewing is not to try and mix HD and SD. Have separate setups: An HD set-top-box feeding an HD telly and an SD box feeding an SD telly.

That's what I do. An HD plasma telly in the living room with built-in FreeView HD which can also be used to view programmes recorded on an HD Humax Foxsat (i.e. FreeSat HD).

In the study I have SD freeview fed through the TiVo into a CRT telly. Because space is limited and I'm quite close to the TV I went for the Sony KV-16WT1U which is the smallest portable widescreen CRT ever sold in the UK and can sit on a shelf. The TiVo has the "mode 0" fix and I also used TiVoWeb to up the bitrate from 4800 to 5700. It produces very good SD pictures.

[mrtickle]

It was a Samsung that the person was using a TiVo with!