Recommendation for 55 inch monitor for use with MX800

[chrisdenney]

I am looking for recommendations for a 55 inch monitor to hang on the rear wall of a classroom for use with an MX800 Dual.  I am using the DVI-I output and converting to HDMI.  I just deployed 6 classrooms and purchased cheap Vizio TVs without knowing any better and the CEC does not work properly.  I need monitors as cheap as I can get that will wake and sleep with the MX800 Dual.

The classrooms have MX800s in the front of the room and precision 60s and a monitor in the rear of the room.  The first three rooms I deployed, I reused old monitors that were purchased by someone else with an old Tandberg system.  When I purchased the equipment for the 6 new rooms I didn't realize that having the monitors wake up with the rest of the system would be such an issue.

A list of 55 inch monitors that are know to work properly or that cisco officially recommends or supports would be great.  Thank you!

[Nick Halbert-Lillyman]

The only officially recommended ones are the LG commercial displays which are not cheap.

Personally, all the consumer grade LG (Simplink for CEC) and Samsung (Anynet for CEC) displays I have used support CEC OK.

[Wayne DeNardi]

As @Nick Halbert-Lillyman mentioned, the LG display panels are the ones that are officially recommended.  See LG Collab Cisco Brochure on the LG Web site, or the CE9.4 Admin Guide (page 54) point you to a bunch of different LG and Samsung models. 

Model LG global website link

49" UHD (49UH5C) http://www.lg.com/global/business/information-display/digital-signage/lg-49UH5C 55" UHD (55UH5C) http://www.lg.com/global/business/information-display/digital-signage/lg-55UH5C 65" UHD (65UH5C) http://www.lg.com/global/business/information-display/digital-signage/lg-65UH5C 75" UHD (75UH5C) http://www.lg.com/global/business/information-display/digital-signage/lg-75UH5C 86" UHD (86UH5C) http://www.lg.com/global/business/information-display/digital-signage/lg-86UH5C 98" UHD (98UH5C) http://www.lg.com/global/business/information-display/digital-signage/lg-98LS95D

Model Samsung global website link

QMN Series (43", 49", 55", 65", 75") https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/digital-signage/detail/1269/QM43N

QMH Series (49", 55", 65") https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/digital-signage/detail/1144/QM49H

QBN Series (43", 49", 55", 65", 75") https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/digital-signage/detail/1274/QB43N

QBH Series (65" , 75") https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/digital-signage/detail/1205/QB65H

[chrisdenney]

Wayne thank you very much for the links! 

The LG Collab Brochure that you linked is referencing the Spark Room Kits and the CE9.4 Admin Guide you linked is referencing the Cisco Webex Codec Plus.  I am working with an MX800 Dual (SX80 codec) which has 3 outputs.  Two HDMI which are taken by the dual monitors included in the MX Dual and the third is DVI-I which is the one I will need to hook my third monitor to.  I checked the CE9.4 Admin Guide for the SX80 and it does not contain the same information pertaining to monitors.

On my existing three MX800s where I reused old monitors from a previous Tandberg deployment I have a DVI-I to HDMI adapter connected to the MX800. With an hdmi cable ran to the monitors and I am connected to the HDMI input of the monitors and this does work, though I'm not exactly sure how it's working.  Have you ever seen a similar setup work with the LG 55UH5C?  I am willing to ask my boss to spend the cash if I can be reasonably sure that the monitor will sleep and wake as expected.

Thanks!