TV as a monitor?

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I have a 32" (LG 32LH5000) TV with:
-100Hz,
-1:100000 contrast,
-0.001ms response time (think the manufacturer may have mistyped)
-1080 x 1920 resolution

Was wondering how well this would perform as a monitor?
I've read in a fair few places, pixel density plays a big part in it, but all the monitors I've seen which aren't LED have pretty much the exact same specification as my TV.
 
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Monitors provide a crisper picture on paper but in reality most TV can perform on the same level as a standard 1080p monitor. The problem with TV's is usually Ghosting or Input Lag, my brother plays on a 32inch Toshiba and imo look better than some monitors in-game but on the internet or windows looks poor.
 
As I sit here typing this I'm looking at my newly purchased and installed Samsung LE32D550 TV. It's freakin' enormous, compared to my 20" monitor that I used to use :p

I'd say for office work it's not as good. Not only is the 16:9 aspect ratio not as good as 16:10, but I have a feeling that prolonged use for anything other than gaming might start to give me a headache.

It might be something as simple as my eyes not being used to focusing at this distance. For years I've programmed my eyes to look at screens only a few cm away, so sitting back like this looking at text with large, slightly fuzzy pixels is a new experience for my brain to get used to.

Other than that, the desktop is clear and crisp, and being able to slouch back in my chair is wonderful :p

I do think 32" is a bit big, however. I would have bought a 27" monitor, but they are actually more expensive than this TV, and don't come with freeview or speakers or HDMI inputs (most of them).
 
My Brothers TV is an older model only 60Hz and looks great personally i am looking a purchasing a 37iinch TV as a monitor/3D problem is most of them only have HDMI ports and wouldn't run as smoothly as a monitor.
 
Ahh bugger, just as I was beginning to enjoy my TV, I've just noticed it's got two dead/stuck pixels slap-bang in the middle of the screen, almost next to each other.

Clucking bell :(
 
I'm up to 2 dead pixels and a dead sub pixel now... all in the centre of the screen.

I'm not sure if they're actually dying in front of my eyes, or if I'm just getting better at spotting them. I didn't see any for about 30 mins when I turned it on... Watched a movie, then noticed the first two (the dead ones). Then later noticed the dead sub-pixel too.

Additionally, despite claims of 4:4:4 support on this screen, I don't think mine supports that. I will have to take a close up shot with a borrowed camera :p

All in all, I think this one is going back under DSR, or faulty, and I'll get a 27" monitor. Too much faffing about trying to get a TV with 4:4:4, which I'm not going to live without :p

Surprisingly, 4:4:4 seems to be getting less and less common on TVs each year. Shame that TVs and monitors aren't converging yet.
 
on LG TV's, if you are using HDMI, you can rename the input from e.g. HDMI1 to "PC" and it then turns of all the unneccesary post processing which causes input lag

or you can just use the D-Sub and it does it automatically for you and acts just like a monitor
 
andybird123 said:
on LG TV's, if you are using HDMI, you can rename the input from e.g. HDMI1 to "PC" and it then turns of all the unneccesary post processing which causes input lag
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That's actually a bad idea with LGs (at least for the 42LK450 I'm using right now), as for some unfathomable reason it applies a non-defeatable edge enhancement which absolutely ruins text quality.
 
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