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  TV or monitor??

  Posted by Willie Bobo on June 10, 2010 at 10:22 pm

  Man I’m feeling dumber every step closer I get to making the switch to HD.
  So if I don’t need a TV receiver does a monitor ( https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4938551&SRCCODE=GOOGLEBASE&cm_mmc_o=VRqCjC7BBTkwCjCECjCE )
  work as well as a TV https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4633272&sku=A204-2402 ?
  Thanks very much,
  Randy

  Willie Bobo replied 15 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Stephen Mann

  June 11, 2010 at 3:12 am

  TV is meant to be viewed from across the room. A monitor much closer. They are not interchangeable.

  For example, my 22-inch (diagonal) monitor screen has a native resolution of 1680 X 1050. It looks good 15-inches from my eyes. Great actually.

  My HDTV has at a resolution of 1920 X 1080, spread over 40-inches (diagonal). At 15-inches it looks like crap. High-resolution crap.

  Across the room it looks very, very good.

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  John Rofrano

  June 11, 2010 at 3:25 am

  I’m with Steve on this one… get a monitor. TV’s tend to have circuits that “make the picture look better” which equates to “you will never know what your video really looks like!”.

  Get an HD monitor and a hardware calibration device like the Spyder3Pro and keep it calibrated so that you can trust what you see. The cheaper the monitor, the more calibration it will probably need (and some really cheap ones can’t be calibrated at all).

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Willie Bobo

  June 11, 2010 at 12:41 pm

  Thanks very much guys!

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