peter green wrote:
> William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>   
>> On Dec 7, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Vitaliy wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>>> Those new LED-lit LCD screens are pretty nice! A 40 inch TV with
>>>> 1920x1080 resolution would make an awesome desktop computer monitor.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> No, not really. :)
>>>     
>>>       
>> But, is a 23 inch HDTV with supposedly 1080p (1920x1080) and a VGA/etc  
>> input the equivalent of a 23inch VGA LCD monitor (plus or minus  
>> speakers, tuner, etc)?
>>   
>>     
> In my experiance generally no, I don't know whether it's inappropriate 
> filtering, poor quality input circuitries or what but in my experiance 
> generally (and i'm sure there are exceptions) HDTVs make awful monitors.
>   
>> (personally, my eyes are going, and the bigger pixels of a larger  
>> screen don't sound so bad; that Hanns G 28inch looks better all the  
>> time!
>>     
> I bought a hanspree HDTV with a supposed native resoloution of 
> 1920x1200, strangely it seems to give a better picture at 1680x1050 but 
> at neither resoloutin is the screen anywhere near as sharp as a monitor 
> making it a pain to use.
>
> If you want a screen with the bigger pixels and the TV functionality but 
> that also makes a decent monitor I reccomend the LG M2762D monitor TV. 
> It looks and mostly acts like a HDTV but it has a dedicated DVI input 
> and with a PC connected there displays a nice shapr picture.
>   
Typically that problem is caused when the screen "overscans" an incoming 
1080p image
IE it'll stretch and warp your input signal rather than just sticking it 
on the screen.

Most sets that do this, wont let you nativley access the pixels in any 
mode and are useless for pretty much anything in my opinion.
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