>From the computer I will mainly watch youtube video and was thinking of reading webpages from the Internet and documents from the computer. I thought I might be good to do this at times. I was planning to sit across the room and enlarge the print, but it sounds like it will be a problem.
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 01:41:38 -0700 Gustin Johnson <gus...@meganerd.ca> wrote: > It really depends on the make and model. Some tvs work better than > others when connected to a computer. Even different models from the > same manufacturer can be wildly different. One common problem I have > had I'd that the full desktop is cut off on the edges, on my > raspberry pi I sometimes have to set weird resolutions to display > properly on TVs. TVs also sometimes have of our noon existent EDIDs > so your computer may not automatically be able to pick the best > resolution and refresh rate. > > Some of the new 4k TVs are only 4k @ 30 hz which is really less than > ideal for connecting computers to. My 74 year old dad would notice > this. > > Also TVs were designed to be viewed from a couple of metres away. A > 40" TV with a 1080p resolution when viewed @ .5m you can see the > spaces between pixels, which does not make things appear more clear. > A 40" 4k monitor, a 27" 1440p monitor, and a 22" 1080p monitor all > have roughly the same dot pitch (loosely the same density of pixels). > > With 1080p and higher you will want to use digital inputs like HDMI > and display port (or the older DVI). This time it depends on what > the TV and video card support. > > Before making any suggestions I guess I would want to know what it is > you want out of the TV as a monitor? are you just looking for > physically large monitor? > On Dec 6, 2015 23:13, "Joe S" <joes...@shaw.ca> wrote: > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
