HDTV as screen?

[sumyungviet]

I am putting together a system and am at the point where I don't know if I want to use my TV as a screen also. I will be getting a 32 inch LCD HDTV, 1080p. Is it ok to use that as the screen for my desktop also, or should I have a separate dedicated screen.

[FlyingPhotog]

A 1080 HD Monitor will only go to, well, 1080...

[jeyaganesh]

Most of the LCD HDTVs have less resolution than the desktop monitors. So you will see big task bars and windows.

I have nvidia 512mb graphic card and Samsung 22" HD ready TV. When I connected CPU with TV, Windows Vista's task bar, icons and windows looked big in less resolution.

There are lot of new HD capable of monitors are coming now. Please check Samsung, Dell, LG websites for such monitors. I dont know about Sony Bravia. They are making good HDTVs.:D

[Zepher]

Most of the LCD HDTVs have less resolution than the desktop monitors. So you will see big task bars and windows.

I have nvidia 512mb graphic card and Samsung 22" HD ready TV. When I connected CPU with TV, Windows Vista's task bar, icons and windows looked big in less resolution.

There are lot of new HD capable of monitors are coming now. Please check Samsung, Dell, LG websites for such monitors. I dont know about Sony Bravia. They are making good HDTVs.:D

your samsung probably is a 720P model, which means the native resolution is 1280x720.

If the TV has a native 1080P (1920x1080) resolution, you should be fine.

here is my 42" Plasma 1080P

[tim]

No. I have a 40" 720P screen hooked up, it's great for movies or showing customers photos, but even my 19" LCD looks MUCH better in terms of detail and resolution. Not to mention the ability to calibrate it. I did calibrate my LCD TV but movies looked crappy.

[sumyungviet]

Thanks guys for the replies, I guess I will keep the two seperate.
Larry

[strmrdr]

there are a lot of people doing it they work fine.
You want a 1080P and not all of them work well.
Look around this forum to see what works well:
http://www.hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=78&order=desc

A lot of newer tvs have different presets available and some have different settings depending on the input use so you can have different settings for different uses that can be changed with a couple pushes of the remotes buttons.

[strmrdr]

Good thread to start with:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1380257

[sumyungviet]

thanks strmrdr I will check those out.

[grego]

Dell has a 24 inch that's on sale right now.

1920x1200 with all the types of ports that you need (2 DVI, HDMI, display port - the future?) You can rotate it to portrait if you ever want a long vertical view as well.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-6272