TV as a Monitor
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Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
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@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
Agreed - since they are LCDs today, what's the difference between a TV and a monitor? assuming the resolution is the same in both.
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@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
Agreed - since they are LCDs today, what's the difference between a TV and a monitor? assuming the resolution is the same in both.
LEDs more often today.
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The idea of the TV faded away. For me, it was gone when this thread was new. I think it is gone for most people now. Things built to be computer monitors tend to be more accurate than things built to be "televisions", but not necessarily so. It's really all one and the same now, regardless of what Jason the "everything in AV is special and normal humans won't understand it" hubris says. AV people want their field to be special, but like we know from IT, the basics are always the basics.
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@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
My dad does that with a 42" 1080P, works great.
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@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
Agreed - since they are LCDs today, what's the difference between a TV and a monitor? assuming the resolution is the same in both.
LEDs more often today.
LED backlighting? more often than before - sure, but so much so as to make a difference? and if it's edge lighting, and not directly behind the panel, what difference does it really make? power saving? anything else?
You can definitely find LED backlit TVs too.
The visual I expect will be exactly, or nearly so, the same. -
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
Agreed - since they are LCDs today, what's the difference between a TV and a monitor? assuming the resolution is the same in both.
LEDs more often today.
LED backlighting? more often than before - sure, but so much so as to make a difference? and if it's edge lighting, and not directly behind the panel, what difference does it really make? power saving? anything else?
You can definitely find LED backlit TVs too.
The visual I expect will be exactly, or nearly so, the same.Umm wut?
Most TV’s are now LED and not LCD. That is all he said.
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@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:
@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
My dad does that with a 42" 1080P, works great.
The 50" @VoIP_n00b links above is 44" wide, that's about 4" wider than my pair of 22", plus has no central bezel. being a 4K monitor, it's actually more physical display space than 4 of the 22" monitors I currently have. Definitely something to consider, of course I'd need/want a tool that splits the screen into 4 zones, mimicking 4 separate monitors, I'd almost never use it in full screen mode. heck, generally, I'd only use it in two screen mode with the top half maybe having my email just to causally glance at.
Though I think I'd need a new mount, my current one holds two monitors, I'd need a taller single point mount for that, assuming a VESA can hold a 50", otherwise it's going to be a PITA dealing with one of those wall mount kits. -
@JaredBusch said in TV as a Monitor:
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
Agreed - since they are LCDs today, what's the difference between a TV and a monitor? assuming the resolution is the same in both.
LEDs more often today.
LED backlighting? more often than before - sure, but so much so as to make a difference? and if it's edge lighting, and not directly behind the panel, what difference does it really make? power saving? anything else?
You can definitely find LED backlit TVs too.
The visual I expect will be exactly, or nearly so, the same.Umm wut?
Most TV’s are now LED and not LCD. That is all he said.
But it's wrong. LED TVs are a type of LCD.
LED is totally misleading as a description because it's just the light source. Used to be fluorescent tubes but that was a long time ago. But I guess they have to call it something. ALL displays and TVs today have an LED light source.
OLED is another matter though. It's not an LCD.
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@Pete-S said in TV as a Monitor:
@JaredBusch said in TV as a Monitor:
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
Agreed - since they are LCDs today, what's the difference between a TV and a monitor? assuming the resolution is the same in both.
LEDs more often today.
LED backlighting? more often than before - sure, but so much so as to make a difference? and if it's edge lighting, and not directly behind the panel, what difference does it really make? power saving? anything else?
You can definitely find LED backlit TVs too.
The visual I expect will be exactly, or nearly so, the same.Umm wut?
Most TV’s are now LED and not LCD. That is all he said.
But it's wrong. LED TVs are a type of LCD.
LED is totally misleading as a description because it's just the light source. Used to be fluorescent tubes but that was a long time ago.
OLED is another matter though. It's not an LCD.
This was my point... who really cares about the lighting source unless you the power consumption is that different that you care about that.
Also, as mentioned, if, IF the LED lighting is used for zone lighting like HDR TVs/monitors, then it makes a difference too, while I'm sure one could use fluorescent tubes with zone lighting, it would likely be expensive and difficult, and likely not worthwhile compared to converting to LED. -
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@Pete-S said in TV as a Monitor:
@JaredBusch said in TV as a Monitor:
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:
@Dashrender said in TV as a Monitor:
@VoIP_n00b said in TV as a Monitor:
Anyone using a 4K TV as a monitor? I have been thinking about it....
Agreed - since they are LCDs today, what's the difference between a TV and a monitor? assuming the resolution is the same in both.
LEDs more often today.
LED backlighting? more often than before - sure, but so much so as to make a difference? and if it's edge lighting, and not directly behind the panel, what difference does it really make? power saving? anything else?
You can definitely find LED backlit TVs too.
The visual I expect will be exactly, or nearly so, the same.Umm wut?
Most TV’s are now LED and not LCD. That is all he said.
But it's wrong. LED TVs are a type of LCD.
LED is totally misleading as a description because it's just the light source. Used to be fluorescent tubes but that was a long time ago.
OLED is another matter though. It's not an LCD.
This was my point... who really cares about the lighting source unless you the power consumption is that different that you care about that.
Also, as mentioned, if, IF the LED lighting is used for zone lighting like HDR TVs/monitors, then it makes a difference too, while I'm sure one could use fluorescent tubes with zone lighting, it would likely be expensive and difficult, and likely not worthwhile compared to converting to LED.Agree.
Notice also that LED TVs was just mentioned when talking about TVs and not displays and not the panels themselves. It's was (is) just a consumer buzz word.
The difference between computer monitors and TVs is primarily the quality and things like stands and inputs of course. Especially when talking about more expensive monitors where color accuracy and how even the luminosity is matters and viewing angle. And backlight should work at low outputs on a monitor and be flicker-free, which TV users don't really care about. TVs are more likely to run at full intensity and have lots of contrast of contrast and color and image processing to make it look good.
There are also professional large monitors, like those used for signage.
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BTW, we run 40-43" 4K monitors in our company. Works fine. Less hassle than double and triple monitor setups.
You really need to go to higher resolution if you want to go bigger. Personally I can imagine a curved monitor with 2.35:1 (21:9) aspect ratio and 55" or so and 6K or something being the closest thing to perfect.
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@Pete-S said in TV as a Monitor:
BTW, we run 40-43" 4K monitors in our company. Works fine. Less hassle than double and triple monitor setups.
You really need to go to higher resolution if you want to go bigger. Personally I can imagine a curved monitor with 2.35:1 aspect ratio and 55" or so and 6K or something being the closest thing to perfect.
I have a width issue at that point. even the 44" width of the 50" linked above is noticeably wider than my current setup, switching from one quadrant to another, practically requires moving your chair to look more dead on at it, not to mention the use of the second level of the displays, I won't expect to do much with is other than casually glance, as previously mentioned.
I could see myself experimenting with putting the bottom of the screen on or near the desk itself, and using that space as a scratch pad, basically splitting the screen into 6 areas, right down the middle form left to right as normal, then half height screen spaces on the top and bottom of each side the bottom for scratch area, and top for monitoring stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:
@Pete-S said in TV as a Monitor:
OLED is another matter though. It's not an LCD.
But it is an LED.
Sure, but those are anything but common yet.
