Thank you all for your suggestions. I believe my parents will eventually get a Sharp lc-26ga4e . It is in their price range, and they had the chance to look at it and liked it. No need to say, you were very useful

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given that non-HD TV is roughly 640x480

Oh! Right. At this regard, I saw Sharp made a new product line, the P50 series, which is supposed to be optimized for the PAL standard. As a matter of fact, it has an even lower resolution. So this definitely confirms the problem is not in the nr. of pixels.