So in a couple of months, I will be moving into the granny flat we have out the back. I want to get a new T.V. for it, and given that I will be buying my frist propper gaming rig sometime in the next 6 months or so (been using laptops for the past couple of years), I would like to potentially kill two birds with one stone and buy a T.V. that will work well as a gaming monitor also.
I want to know the pros and cons of using a t.v. as a monitor, particularly for gaming, as well as what i should be looking for in a t.v. for gaming as well as general PC use such as web browsing and word processing etc. and the price bracket I would be looking at. As of yet I can't give you a budget, so just throw different options at me (bearing in mind that I am Australian, and prices are therefore often different)
tvs generally have a longer response time and sometimes a lower refresh rate
also in my experience it's a bitch to read text on a tv, but i don't have problems on simmilar sized monitors (could just be me)
Okay so Overloadnick I am glad you brought this up, so I am not the only one. I actually just did this yesterday, rearranging my studio. I have two 27inch monitors, I need a third lol for streaming it's easier, plus I can use it for Xbox/PS3 exclusives, so I pulled out a 32inch Vizio TV I had years ago, it's a great TV. But (one it had no DVI port, pissed) the recommend resolution was 1280x720, it looks clear there but I have no surface space and it sucks going between windows with applications.
I have it on 1920x1080, but text is annoying to read, it's not impossible, but it's not clear, it's like fuzzed a little, so I just use this window now for Tweetdeck and programs that aren't text filled.
You can whach tv on a Monitor you just need a dvi to hdmi cable then you get the best of both
I think you misunderstand. what I'm saying is that I'm getting a TV regardless, so is there merit in picking one that will be useable as a permanent display for my PC, or would it just be better to buy a reasonably priced TV and a reasonably priced IPS monitor (or I may even just get a TN monitor)
Sometimes useing a tv with hdmi you can't get into the bios to set up the motherboard.
Ie sometimes the display will only start working once windows has booted (this happens a lot with uefi bios screens)
i would do it the other way around, get a really big PC-monitor and use that as a TV, usually TV's get fed from little decoder boxes via HDMI, the only stumbling block is that you have to pay attention that you get a monitor that can output the sound from the HDMI-singal via a 3,5mm audio jack, so you can hook up speakers. Also you might need to get up and push the source button on the monitor to switch from PC-use to TV use.
Yea, that is something I have considered however I would like a fairly decent sized screen for watching movies with my girlfriend and stuff, I think at the moment I'm leaning towards getting both, and maybe even a dual monitor setup with a tv and a monitor
also slightly irrelevant, but if I'm planning at this stage to get an 8350 and a sapphire 7970 OC edition, should i look at getting a monitor that can play at 1440p, or is it just not worth it given that I will most likely be happy gaming at 1080p? i.e. will the 7970 handle more graphically intense games at 1440p?
the 7970 will handle 1440p , just not with crisis 3 at ultra with max postprocessing, pick up the 1440p monitor if you do other stuff like photo-editing, also 1440p is nice if you read allot of text. i have a 1440p monitor vertically pivoted for coding and surfing.
But for gaming only i doubt that you'll see a enough of a difference to be worth the premium . With increasing technology there's a law of diminushing returns.