What's your Monitor Size?

I game on a DELL U2711 @ 2560x1440

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3848/photoxd.jpg

46' Samsung TV... when you grow up playing gaming consoles, a TV feels more natural than a small computer screen.

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Originally Posted by Rydin

from this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...oing-Eyefinity

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Yes, you can run the game in 5760x1080, but that doesn't mean it is supported. When you get screen stretching on either side, that mean the game doesn't support it. On top of that, FFXIV supports crossfire and SLI, but not really to its potential. I even made a thread about it.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...onitor-Support

And this,
http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/4...8435999310.jpg

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Originally Posted by IronSoup

46' Samsung TV... when you grow up playing gaming consoles, a TV feels more natural than a small computer screen.

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I tried playing on a 32" and couldn't handle it, so I brought a 24". I dunno how the hell u use a 46" x.x

myself i have an acer 24 i game on and my home tv(sanyo 32) is also connected so i can watch movies via netflix side by side or just watch a downloaded movie.

I have a 17-19" (not sure exact size) Monitor running at 1280 x 1024 @ 75Hz Refresh Rate. I actually have a 21" Widescreen Monitor that I can run the game on @ 1900 x 1080 but I get tearing on it. Tried all the standard solutions and couldn't fix it.

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Originally Posted by ispano

Agreed, TVs just aren't the same as Computer Monitors. Dot Pitch is much worse, because they're designed to be viewed from much farther away. ie a 22" Monitor @ 1920x1080 vs a 32"+ TV @ 1920x1080. Same resolution, TV has larger pixels. They often have other things not optimal for PC gaming as well.

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And yet my 46" TV with it's native 1280x720 resolution displays games/video much better than my IPS 29" monitor with it's native resolution of 2560x1440. There isn't anything special about "PC gaming." The only issue is that PCs output in RGB color and most other devices output in YcRcB (chroma).

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Originally Posted by Enfarious

Yes the pixel count is fixed in all LCD devices, that's where the native resolution comes from. But like a laptop with a native resolution below 1080 can still be pushed to 1080 a TV can be pushed past it's native resolution.

The TV/Monitor/TVs floating around that I mentioned earlier aren't crazy expensive, well not when compared to other hardware out there.

The LED technology that is being referred to in most of those monitors and TVs alike are back-lighting, not true LED displays, it can be a little misleading, but it's not wrong. I'm assuming here when you say "real" LED you mean the massive screens like in times square and what have you.

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Except you missed the point that the displays are physically incapable of displaying any higher resolution than the native. So "pushing" it higher gives you no better resolution since the panel itself cannot display that many pixels. It just can not happen that way. There is no way to make a TV that has a physical count of 2,073,600 pixels, show more than that, that's all that is there.

And no, by LED monitor, I mean OLED. Like the type found in some smartphones nowadays. They have desktop displays using the tech, just terribly expensive. But the big problem I see is that people let themselves be confused by it, so when real LED based displays start to become mainstream they will become even more confused.

I play on 15 monitors in 9001 x 1337 resolution of course.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

And yet my 46" TV with it's native 1280x720 resolution displays games/video much better than my IPS 29" monitor with it's native resolution of 2560x1440. There isn't anything special about "PC gaming." The only issue is that PCs output in RGB color and most other devices output in YcRcB (chroma).

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Why is it better then? I listed resolution, because like other things on PC, resolution is a huge contributor to many PC Games. Games that use button bars or windows(Like EVE for example) can display more of the game world itself due to having more pixels to do so with. ie a TV or Monitor at 1920x1080 with the same UI setup will look the same, exactly the same, just scaled to the physical size of the display. A monitor with a higher resolution however can still keep the same pixel count for the UI, and still be readable even, to change that ratio of world to UI.

And I mentioned IPS since they have some of the best color reproduction of any LCD panel, assuming you get good ones, than others like TN/MVA/PVA(Although those last two have the best black reproduction of the 4, just SLOW response times). Some TVs do use IPS, but you're less likely to know it does since the manufacturer doesn't release those specs as much as they do with monitors.

So, I prefer monitors, especially ones that push past standard TV resolution for the reasons above. Any reason why TVs are better?