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Thread ID: 140628	2015-11-15 05:38:00	TV Monitor for a computer	lostsoul62 (16011)	Press F1

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1411382	2015-11-15 05:38:00	I'm trying to buy a 32" TV and use it for a computer monitor. It should have 120 Hz, 1080, Smart, HDTV, 4:4:4 chroma mapping but I don't want to spend more than a 32" computer monitor would cost. I know that Costco is selling one for $239 which is a Visio and I know that Visio's are good because I've had one for 3 years and it's great. What I don't know is the 4:4:4 chroma mapping?	lostsoul62 (16011)
1411383	2015-11-15 07:34:00	I think you will find 32" monitors start at around $700.	Driftwood (5551)
1411384	2015-11-15 18:45:00	I think you will find 32" monitors start at around $700. Really? I've seen them pretty cheap advertised on Tv at the usual stores.....my son has a 32" TV as monitor. It's 1080 resolution. One thing though, my wee 19" monitor is 1690. Tvs are lower res, even if bigger screen size for the price.	pctek (84)
1411385	2015-11-15 19:04:00	May as well buy a TV with HDMI if you have HDMI You can get a Veon 40 inch for $400 full HD, or $279 for a 32 inch. Which is HD ready. Altho Veon wouldnt be my choice. Even tho I'm using a 24 inch now Only got it because its got 3 HDMI. And I'm using them now. One for the PC the Xbox and the bluray player	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1411386	2015-11-15 19:16:00	TV's make ok monitors, but they are not speciifically designed for it so text is not usually as crisp and sharp as a proper monitor and you often have to find a setting to make the input aware of the fact it's connected to a PC or it can be really bad. The response time and input lag is not great if you are much of a gamer as well although some people are more sensitive to that than others. I only really play driving games on my TV and it seems fine to me. Incidentally to go off on a tangent for a sec, Steam's in home streaming between PC's is actually pretty cool (I didn't see a need for it initially), I stream my gaming PC to the low powered NUC in the Lounge and suddenly I can play fullscreen HD games on my 60" plasma surprisingly smoothly. As I said though, mainly an occasional driving game.	dugimodo (138)
1411387	2015-11-15 19:22:00	TVs these days have to do a lot of processing and that should make them more expensive than a computer monitor (where the processing is all done inside the computer) I wonder about the meaning of 100 Hz or 200 Hz when applied to TVs. It could mean that the screen's brightness is pulsed every 1/200 second to reduce flicker, but the motion stays at 25 Hz. That wouldn't be any good for gaming I know that some TV makers interpolate to higher frame rates eg Sony use "MotionFlo". But do the cheap makers do this?	BBCmicro (15761)
1411388	2015-11-15 19:33:00	Only play games on the Xbox (on this), not the PC. Games these days install too much junk that I don't need. I use the other PC on a TV as well. And watch live sport on it. Nothing wrong with it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1411389	2015-11-15 20:55:00	TV's make ok monitors, but they are not speciifically designed for it so text is not usually as crisp and sharp as a proper monitor..... Is that still the case with modern TV's ? assuming the TV can run at 1080 . I know it used to be a real issue, back in the CRT days.	1101 (13337)
1411390	2015-11-15 21:23:00	@1101, It's nowhere near as bad as those days. Most TV's do a perfectly adequate job as a monitor. There are differences though and monitors do generally look better which basically summarises my point. TV's are cheaper as well, mainly due to the volumes of them sold I'd expect. TV's are generally optimised for video by default (no surprises there) and for bright colourful images. Those settings tend to look terrible for simple black on white text. Text can look fuzzy and blurred and sharp edges with high contrast colour differences can bleed into the neighbouring area. Most of them do have a setting for PC input though which looks pretty decent and fixes these issues so most people are happy enough with the result. You can also have issues with overscan if your graphics driver doesn't support it meaning you may lose the edges of the image on some TVs with some graphics cards. A TV set for PC input looks good, put it next to a decent monitor at the same resolution though and normally it'll look worse by comparison. I've used a 40" & 42" LCD TV as a monitor, and now a 60" Plasma (No I don't replace my TV that often, 2 of them were stolen). All did a decent job and looked good enough for what I wanted, all looked their best when playing Video as well, again no surprise there. None of them could match my cheapo 27" monitor for text quality though.	dugimodo (138)
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