Hi Guys
thanks for all the incredible info.

First of all when I wrote the original post I was a bit vague on some
stuff but I am definitely only looking at LCD.

I went into Comet (I'm in Scotland!) today and hooked up my MacBook Pro
to a Samsung 32" HD LCD TV screen with 1368x768 res. And the result
was.....

Well it looked fine. I had the choice of various resolutiions in the
display control panel and I didnt have it set to mirror mode ( I had a
seperate control panel for th MBP screen and the samsung)

but as you said no matter which res 5 had it on the text on menus and
the like looked a wee bit woolly. I didnt think that I would be
comfortable with it for long sessions.

If I was doing mostly home cinema and a bit of music then it would be
fine but the proportion is the other way round.

My main question is:

is that cos I was running bioth screens off the internal graphics of
the MBP, was it becasue there was some scaling going on as the output
didnt exactly match the screen reolution eg 1380 to 1368 or the like,
os is that just what you gut with 1368 pixels stretched across a 32"
screen.

If the latter then I think Ihave to go for a LCD computer monitor and
budget says 1 or 2 20"is the max 5 can do.

Any more thought s very very appreciated.

Tommy Banana