Maybe use my TV as a monitor, any disadvantages?

Steedie · 18 May 2008 at 17:30

Hey guys

I've been looking into getting a 24" monitor for ages

But I've noticed a lot more people on here using their TV's as monitors, I currently have a 40" Samsung LE40M87BDX, which is 1080p native so will be running pretty close to a 24" resolution

So was thinking save some money and use this

Are there any cons to it? Loss in quality? Are the respnse times slower on TV's compared to monitors, I've never noticed a problem when connected to my PS3 or 360 but I'll be sat a lot closer when using my TV so thought maybe you'd notice it more

The TV is only about 3ft away from my PC in my bedroom anyway so the amount of rearranging would be minimal

Cheers guys

fonetech · 18 May 2008 at 19:34

very bad resolution is the first disadvantage

Strife212 · 18 May 2008 at 19:51

Don't know when 1920x1080 became "very bad"

Steedie · 18 May 2008 at 20:03

Well just tried it, it looked fantastic at 1920x1080, so clear, games looked stunning

Trouble was...

The desktop spanned off the edges of the screen. Had to use nvidias HDTV resizer, but that ruined the quality by quite a bit

EVILCOSMOS · 18 May 2008 at 20:16

Can you not enable 'just scan' in the tv menu to stop the overscan?

Margaret · 18 May 2008 at 20:36

fonetech said:
very bad resolution is the first disadvantage

If you're using a 720P set, which is actually fine for watching video.

Steedie · 18 May 2008 at 21:13

EVILCOSMOS said:
Can you not enable 'just scan' in the tv menu to stop the overscan?

Ah didn't notice that before

Will try it out