On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:42 +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote: > This is what I was going to do (replace my TV with my good quality LCD > computer monitor).... until I tried it out. The picture quality is > simply FAR better on a TV than on a monitor.
While a monitor may expose flaws in the tv signal to a greater extent, I simply don't buy that TV's give better pictures. Take a good wallpaper that is as big as a current lcd monitor's native resolution and compare that to a tv side by side. If you think the tv gives the better picture, well, then I'm surprised. I suspect part of the issue deals with removing interlacing artifacts and the interpolation a video card will do to stretch out an image. If you can look for a video card that does something better than simple linear interpolation. Most newer ati/nvidia once probably do something decent, but I haven't looked lately. As to the dinterlacing, well myth has a couple options. Finally unless your using a 350's s-video output, I doubt the signal is being reconstructed correctly to go to a tv and preserve the interlaced structure. Maybe nvidia's cards do it, but I doubt it. Without this preservation your again likely better off with a monitor. > > And also TV looks FAR better on an old fashioned CRT than an LCD or > even a plasma TV. Sure, they are more convenient what with the slim > size, and lower power consumption but they are just not as good for > watching TV. > > Go to a TV shop and see for yourself. At any rate I personally think my vizio l32 lcd looks better than my old 32 inch crt, but thats still my opinion I suppose. I'm taking this lcd back when the winbook 32 arrives so I can get a 1:1 dot for dot display rather than the vizio's rescaling of the vga signal. I may make a better post tomorrow once I get it to play with, but if anyone wants a winbook 32 inch lcd you may want search for it via pricewatch.com. You should see it offered for $999 + 100 shipping instead of $1099 + ~$135 shipping at their web site. Also, if you want to use the monitor for anything other than tv, well then a monitor is better as well. For instance, I can read quite easily off this LCD monitor. Perhaps doing so sometimes will have some small benefit to my vision since it is farther away, although I'm obviously not an eye doctor... -Robert
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