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Originally Posted by compucat
Even today's flat panels would look great if they dressed them up with brushed, anodized aluminum bezels.
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Insignia comes close with the accessory bezels offered for their flat screens. These aren't metal or anything fancy, but I think they
do look better than the stock bezel, which is flat black and not much to look at. My own 19" Insignia flat screen looks like that, but I make up for it by putting the set on a wood stand. One of these days I may get an accessory bezel to make it look a bit nicer.
BTW, I looked up the accessory bezel for the 19" Insignia flat screens (I think it only fits one model), and it's metallic gray. Would make any jet-black Insig FS look better than the flat-black stock bezel. I'll look at the list of models it fits; if mine is among them, I may get one.
Flat black seems to be the preferred color scheme these days for just about everything associated with computers, sound or home theater: TVs, computer CPU towers, keyboards, monitors, printers, stereos, home theater 5.1+ channel audio systems, you name it. I wonder why. For computers, this color scheme is known as "business black", while there is no such designation for televisions or home theater gear; the latter is also offered almost exclusively in jet-black cabinets. Best Buy's metallic-gray bezel for its flat-screen TVs is an improvement over the black stock bezel, but other gear in nondescript black cabinets could use a similar makeover as well. What
is this obsession with black, anyway?
