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Answer» My LCD HD TV apparently can be used as a computer monitor. Will it serve me as well as a dedicated LCD computer monitor without a tuner or will the display quality be inferior?lcds have a slower refresh rate which will mean ghosting with games and stuffIf you wish to use the lcd tv for your computer monitor (ASSUMING it has the correct connections) it will work very well. The display will not likely be inferior. To be sure, what is the model and brand?The TV is an LG 26LG30, 26" LCD, 720p, 1366x768px native resolution, 5ms response, 5,000:1 contrast ratio, 1 PC input, 2 HDMI inputs, and the usual component, S-video, and composite inputs.That will work great for a computer monitor. Although I personally wouldn't do it because of it's lower native resolution, (I like higher resolutions) it will work fine for anyone else. i hate it when people lie to me and told me a lcd has a slower respons time... but that will make a great moniter LCDs actually do have a lower response time than the old crt monitors. Some gamers even claim to notice the difference, but I'd rather have the extra desk space than the ability to pull out 3 extra fps on Firefox3. o just crts well of courseI have a 61 inch, 1080i, HDTV, which I frequently use to display output from my computer. However, I use an HDMI output from my graphics board, and I output 1080i resolution from the PC to my A/V Receiver, which then switches between several HDMI sources to the TV. I'm even considering buying an internal Blu-Ray DVD player (at less than $200) to INSTALL in the PC, for use only in displaying HD movies on the TV, SINCE a standalone Blu-Ray player would cost close to twice as much. As a cautionary note, I would recommend against taking a VGA output into a "PC" input on your TV. VGA output, in my opinion, is simply not worthy of display on an HDTV, at least in the case of most TV "PC" inputs. If you're serious about display of computer output on HDTV, get an HDMI enabled graphics adapter and have at it. Otherwise, again in my opinion, it just ain't worth it.I honestly have never noticed a difference between vga and dvi on a computer. I've never seen anything in hdmi, but have trouble believing there is much difference.I actually think games look better on LCD screens (of the right size/resolution ratio). I don't even like to work on CRT screens anymore. They annoy me. The image doesn't feels as sharp and clear to me. Quote from: michaewlewis on June 25, 2008, 09:53:27 AM I honestly have never noticed a difference between vga and dvi on a computer. I've never seen anything in hdmi, but have trouble believing there is much difference. Well, of course, to see a significant difference, it's necessary to have both a graphics adapter and a monitor capable of high resolution. The display I'm working on now (with DVI input) is 1440 x 900. Before settling on the DVI input, I tried the VGA input, and there was significant difference, in favor of DVI. The only HDMI output I use from the PC is to my A/V system. There are several reasons for that choice - it's the highest quality video and sound which I can get to the system; it carries video and sound in one cable; and I can match my HDTV's resolution capability. After saying all this however, I recognize that some persons still PREFER tubes to solid state, vinyl to digital, and (probably) VGA to whatever. Finally, with respect to VGA output, the biggest degradation of signal quality I see is in sending VGA output to an HDTV - not to the computer. In my experience, VGA to the PC looks much better than VGA to HDTV. I use vga to run my 22" lcd monitor (Acer)at home at 1920x1200 resolution. At work I use dvi to run a 24" lcd (Dell) at the same resolution. I haven't noticed any difference at all. It may be that, because I'm not a gamer, I lack the ability to fully appreciate all this. Most of what I do with the PC is video and auditing editing, with a little networking and database thrown in from time to time. I do enjoy high definition TV, and HD DVD and Blu-Ray, but I suspect that serious gamers deal with much higher resolutions much of the time; perhaps picking up the ability to be more discerning thru the process.

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My LCD HD TV apparently can be used as a computer monitor. Will it serve me as well as a dedicated LCD computer monitor without a tuner or will the display quality be inferior?lcds have a slower refresh rate which will mean ghosting with games and stuffIf you wish to use the lcd tv for your computer monitor (ASSUMING it has the correct connections) it will work very well. The display will not likely be inferior.
To be sure, what is the model and brand?The TV is an LG 26LG30, 26" LCD, 720p, 1366x768px native resolution, 5ms response, 5,000:1 contrast ratio, 1 PC input, 2 HDMI inputs, and the usual component, S-video, and composite inputs.That will work great for a computer monitor. Although I personally wouldn't do it because of it's lower native resolution, (I like higher resolutions) it will work fine for anyone else.
i hate it when people lie to me and told me a lcd has a slower respons time... but that will make a great moniter LCDs actually do have a lower response time than the old crt monitors. Some gamers even claim to notice the difference, but I'd rather have the extra desk space than the ability to pull out 3 extra fps on Firefox3. o just crts well of courseI have a 61 inch, 1080i, HDTV, which I frequently use to display output from my computer. However, I use an HDMI output from my graphics board, and I output 1080i resolution from the PC to my A/V Receiver, which then switches between several HDMI sources to the TV. I'm even considering buying an internal Blu-Ray DVD player (at less than $200) to INSTALL in the PC, for use only in displaying HD movies on the TV, SINCE a standalone Blu-Ray player would cost close to twice as much.

As a cautionary note, I would recommend against taking a VGA output into a "PC" input on your TV. VGA output, in my opinion, is simply not worthy of display on an HDTV, at least in the case of most TV "PC" inputs. If you're serious about display of computer output on HDTV, get an HDMI enabled graphics adapter and have at it. Otherwise, again in my opinion, it just ain't worth it.I honestly have never noticed a difference between vga and dvi on a computer. I've never seen anything in hdmi, but have trouble believing there is much difference.I actually think games look better on LCD screens (of the right size/resolution ratio).

I don't even like to work on CRT screens anymore. They annoy me. The image doesn't feels as sharp and clear to me. Quote from: michaewlewis on June 25, 2008, 09:53:27 AM

I honestly have never noticed a difference between vga and dvi on a computer. I've never seen anything in hdmi, but have trouble believing there is much difference.

Well, of course, to see a significant difference, it's necessary to have both a graphics adapter and a monitor capable of high resolution. The display I'm working on now (with DVI input) is 1440 x 900. Before settling on the DVI input, I tried the VGA input, and there was significant difference, in favor of DVI. The only HDMI output I use from the PC is to my A/V system. There are several reasons for that choice - it's the highest quality video and sound which I can get to the system; it carries video and sound in one cable; and I can match my HDTV's resolution capability. After saying all this however, I recognize that some persons still PREFER tubes to solid state, vinyl to digital, and (probably) VGA to whatever. Finally, with respect to VGA output, the biggest degradation of signal quality I see is in sending VGA output to an HDTV - not to the computer. In my experience, VGA to the PC looks much better than VGA to HDTV.
I use vga to run my 22" lcd monitor (Acer)at home at 1920x1200 resolution. At work I use dvi to run a 24" lcd (Dell) at the same resolution. I haven't noticed any difference at all. It may be that, because I'm not a gamer, I lack the ability to fully appreciate all this. Most of what I do with the PC is video and auditing editing, with a little networking and database thrown in from time to time. I do enjoy high definition TV, and HD DVD and Blu-Ray, but I suspect that serious gamers deal with much higher resolutions much of the time; perhaps picking up the ability to be more discerning thru the process.

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