tv screen

lewis1987 · Post by **lewis1987** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 10:19 am

can U us a flat screen tv as your computer monitor and if so will it have an as good refresh rate as your normal flat screen computer moniter.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:49 am

when you say flat screen tv...do you mean plasma, lcd, or crt tv? it will depend on the make/model of the tv how the pc display will look.

lewis1987 · Post by **lewis1987** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:55 pm

i mean plasma so it can be mounted on the wall also what is the refresh rate on a projecter like will it be good anoth to play games.

Badmojo · Post by **Badmojo** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:15 pm

not familiar with Plasma for monitors but HD is basically PC spec video resolutions but some crtTV's have issues with certain video cards.

I would highly suggest deciding a model and then search for specific forums to that model. You would be more likely to find how compatible with your video card.

Projectors are for the most part designed to work with PC's and have VGA inputs. When Doom3 came out some guys on HardPCP had pics of theirs and claimed once you get used to the giant screen you can snipe people that would usual be invisible on a 20" monitor

as for refresh i may need a correction but they are usually set on TVs to 60hz or in the video card. If you can you might want to use a component out(PrPbY) of an ATI card then a vga out

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:02 am

Unless the "TV" has an SVGA input (like 44" rear projection LCD living room TV does) or a "standard" DVI input (most TVs use a different DVI standard than PCs) a TV will never look as sharp as a computer monitor.

Refresh has nothing to do with it - it's the clarity of the image, especially text.

If you're playing games the concern is RESPONSE TIME not refresh. I would think a plasma TV probably has a pretty good response time.

swinada · Post by **swinada** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:14 am

can I add on to this thread?
I went shopping to the big city today and wanted to look for a 19" LCD but nothing really confinced me, I was looking in the cheaper section between 350 - 500. Since I could not find anything that I tought would be worth buying my dear wife suggested to wait a coupple months and then buy something more expensive and convincing. As we strolled through Costco we looked at the Flat screen LCD TV's I found 2 models which have a computer in port. 1 VGA other DVI. Now I'm trying to decide if i should go this way, after all the cheaper one is a 20" and only 599$
http://www.sanyo.ca/en-CA/entertainment ... ductID=759

This one is a little bigger costs 849.99
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/deskt ... 50w/#specs

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:40 am

some issues with using TV-spec displays as monitors:

1) overscan. even with DVI, some screens will overscan a bit (draw some of the picture off-screen) so you might not be able to see things like the taskbar. Sometimes you can correct for this in the video driver or a utility like Powerstrip.

2) resolution. cheaper "EDTV" plasma screens are usually 852x480, which is pretty low for PC use. HD resolutions should be fine as long as they're "true," i.e. 1280x720, 1366x768, 1920x1080. Some cheaper "HD" plasmas use odd resolutions like 1024x786 "wide" or 1024x1024. These screens use rectangular pixels and will look like total ass if used with a PC.

3) connection. It's best if it has DVI/HDMI, RGB/SVGA, or HD component, in order of decreasing quality. S-video and composite will look like ass with a PC, as the interlacing causes flickering issues and smears the hell out of small text.

As we strolled through Costco we looked at the Flat screen LCD TV's I found 2 models which have a computer in port. 1 VGA other DVI. Now I'm trying to decide if i should go this way, after all the cheaper one is a 20" and only 599$

I'd go with the Viewsonic, myself. Its DVI port is HDCP compliant so if you wanted to connect it to an HD cable or satellite box in the future, you would be able to.