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Large screen monitors are getting very pricey: This guy is using a suitable TV instead


 Man sitting next to a very large screen, with his finger pointing at the screen This was an interesting watch and brings home the fact that you should just consider what you are needing your screen for. TVs are certainly also getting better, but there is

Man sitting next to a very large screen, with his finger pointing at the screen
This was an interesting watch and brings home the fact that you should just consider what you are needing your screen for. TVs are certainly also getting better, but there is more to it than just HDMI ports, contrast ratios, and response times.

We’ve long been using our standard (and now pretty old) TV with HDMI ports as our media screen in the lounge, connected to a Linux computer. It works perfectly for that purpose. But we’re not playing high-end games on it.

But even for many gamers, MAYBE a TV could work fine. Given the price differences, it may be worth it. As it is, many say that the ultra-high refresh rates (or FPS) we are seeing on the latest monitors are just not good bang for the buck at all. It is unlikely the human eye is even perceiving much difference beyond 144Hz (I did a post about that in June 2023).

It is certainly something worth considering at least.

See youtu.be/rdg8tKNZt1s
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in reply to Danie

Isaac Kuo
Isaac Kuo
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For business use, there's no beating the value of a cheap 43 inch 4K TV set. It's more annoying to figure out and set up with best resolution and refresh rate, but we're talking maybe $170 for a 4K TV, vs twice as much for a much smaller computer monitor.

I actually did try out a smaller 4K computer monitor, and while the quality of the display was definitely better, the dot pitch was way too small to be usable for me without scaling up 150%. This meant the practical usable space was far smaller for me (only 4/9 of the area, after considering the scaling).

That said, I do not work in print/film/video, where high quality color fidelity matters. For that sort of work, you're just not going to benefit from trying to cheap out on your displays.

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