Monitor vs TV for films?

Skynet-T800 · 29 Jan 2013 at 21:37

Hello,

My mate wants a new monitor namely the Asus PB278Q 27" Professional LED Multimedia Monitor.

He doesn't want stupid big but more solid quality? Just for films & TV not PC/imaging related stuff!

Odd PS3 game played on it!

I underatand his thinking for the price of this monitor you could get and average LED TV.

The IPS quality would be ace BUT arnt these type of monitors designed for Professional use like photography and such this like that?

Will they be smooth like butter at panning?

Uncle Petey · 29 Jan 2013 at 21:41

The price of that monitor could buy him a nice big plasma if he looks around. Yes, plasma

Slap him and tell him to sort it out

Maybe a little big, but how about this? Look for reviews.
http://www.tesco.com/direct/panason...rt-plasma-3d-tv-with-freeview-hd/548-3355.prd

Skynet-T800 · 29 Jan 2013 at 22:00

His room is a shoe box hence 27" no more than 32".

He also wants stupidly good quality?

passey89 · 29 Jan 2013 at 22:10

No point in going over 1080 if your not plugging it into a pc.

No tv source outputs over 1080 so total waste of money

Uncle Petey · 29 Jan 2013 at 22:11

In-house IMAX?

That telly is stupidly good quality at a stupidly good price. It virtually matches their top of the range stuff and pretty much poo's all over LCD screens costing 2-3 times the price.

If he's dead set on a smaller screen, I'd advise looking around for alternatives.
Paying that much for a 27" semi-pro PC monitor just for films and a bit of ps3 is a waste.

Edit: As Passey says, since it's higher than 1080 res, the monitor would scale up the image, thus degrading quality somewhat which kind of defeats the purpose.

BluD · 29 Jan 2013 at 22:13

Does he intend on plugging an aerial in for terrestrial tv? If its only a small room he is putting it in, maybe a TV with a digibox built in will save space. My parents bought a cheap 1080p 30ish inch tv recently, and i plugged my laptop in when i was around there and it looked great tbh.

Skynet-T800 · 29 Jan 2013 at 22:34

BluD said:
Does he intend on plugging an aerial in for terrestrial tv? If its only a small room he is putting it in, maybe a TV with a digibox built in will save space. My parents bought a cheap 1080p 30ish inch tv recently, and i plugged my laptop in when i was around there and it looked great tbh.

He does have a digibox HD thing of some kind!

NirK · 2 Feb 2013 at 15:35

IPS is good for colour accuracy for pro use etc. but for films either a plasma or PVA screen is better as they have wayyy better contrast ratio...

Average IPS contrast = 800:1

Sony / Samsung SPVA / plasma contrast = 4000-8000:1