What's your Monitor Size?

[Leyza]

The problem with a T.V. is that if you're sitting close to it, the images will be blurry due to the lower resolution. If you sit at an area where it will be sharp, the text will be hard to read in some games. (Due to this, Aion is barely playable for me. >.<)

[Emulord]

Same performance? You've either seen poor monitors or really expensive TVs. A monitor will give the user a much more detailed picture for computing. But if you play really far away, then it actually isn't a problem. Though I suspect computing isn't as comfortable.

Anyways, I use 3x24 inch monitors with a fourth 32 inch TV above them. The ratio for my three monitors is 5760x1080.




That simply isn't true

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.

I use a 30" @ 2560x1600, won't ever go back to something smaller unless I have to.

The problem with a T.V. is that if you're sitting close to it, the images will be blurry due to the lower resolution. If you sit at an area where it will be sharp, the text will be hard to read in some games. (Due to this, Aion is barely playable for me. >.<)

generally a pc monitor is functionally superior to a TV for computing purposes. I could never get the image to display quite right on my TV, usually there is either a small black border around the image, or a small bit of the image is cut off. Neither sits well for me.

I'd like to maintain the quality of the colors/performance and the readability of texts are astonishing on both of my TVs. Maybe something is wrong with my eyes, and yes they do have bigger pixels than a classical PC monitor, but I'm 1.20m away from my primary 37" TV, and 2m away from the 50" one, and I can't even distinguish them. Actually, I feel quite more comfortable than with my former 24" SAMSUNG Monitor, even for computing, I don't even remember how I got rid of it. I would never step back for a screen under 30". BF3 in 3D with a huge field of view is amazing.

Obviously, a decent TV IS way more expensive than a PC Monitor -- I got the 37" during a bargain offer for 899$, and the 3D-Ready 50" for 2249$, the price of 5+ nice PC gaming monitors or a gaming computer, but much less than what it used to cost a couple of years ago -- and obviously if you want to play from your couch, you may need to lower the resolution to be able to read texts, especially for MMOs in which there's a lot to read. In games like AC or GTA, it is none of a problem at all for me. But assuming you can invest the price, I do claim TVs definitely are "a excellent horse to bet on".


(Sorry if my English sometimes is quite of a clumsy one, I don't master all of the typically English expressions...)

[ispano]

I'd like to maintain the quality of the colors/performance and the readability of texts are astonishing on both of my TVs. Maybe something is wrong with my eyes, and yes they do have bigger pixels than a classical PC monitor, but I'm 1.20m away from my primary 37" TV, and 2m away from the 50" one, and I can't even distinguish them. Actually, I feel quite more comfortable than with my former 24" SAMSUNG Monitor, even for computing, I don't even remember how I got rid of it. I would never step back for a screen under 30". BF3 in 3D with a huge field of view is amazing.

Obviously, a decent TV IS way more expensive than a PC Monitor -- I got the 37" during a bargain offer for 899$, and the 3D-Ready 50" for 2249$, the price of 5+ nice PC gaming monitors or a gaming computer, but much less than what it used to cost a couple of years ago -- and obviously if you want to play from your couch, you may need to lower the resolution to be able to read texts, especially for MMOs in which there's a lot to read. In games like AC or GTA, it is none of a problem at all for me. But assuming you can invest the price, I do claim TVs definitely are "a excellent horse to bet on".


(Sorry if my English sometimes is quite of a clumsy one, I don't master all of the typically English expressions...)

For most games, the field of view is based on the Display Ratio, so you would be correct that a 1920x1080 display would have a bit bigger FoV than my 2560x1600. Assuming they don't use a different method of course. But Monitors can easily rival TVs in cost. My 30" Monitor for example tends to run around $1500, and it's far from the most expensive 30" as well, the one I wanted was closer to $4000 :/. But this one is still really nice.