HDTV vs LCD Monitors?

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I have been wondering about HDTV quality vs LCD Screen Monitors quality? And the difference in DPI? Are they comparable? Would it be a better investment to go with th HDTV for a bigger screen for a computer or LCD? Whats the biggest difference?

Answer
There is a huge difference between a HDTV and LCD monitor. One is meant for movies, gaming, tv. The other is designed for computers. How big of a monitor are you looking for? How much are you planning on spending?

24" Dell LCD monitors are affordable and are less expensive than a 24" LCD TV. TV tuners and additional electronics in a TV add to the cost. If you are not going to watch TV or play console games, then buy a LCD computer monitor. If you are, then buy an LCD TV. There is no point in buying a more expensive product, when you are not going to be using all its features.

It's practicality and purpose. It's kinda hard to view a 32" LCD monitor, when you are only 3 feet away from the screen.

Quality-wise...they are the same, if we are comparing an HDTV LCD and LCD monitor. It's all about cost and footprint.

computer monitor vs. tv?

Hi guys~

I used to have my 27inch HDTV connected to my computer.
And then when I switched to 19inch LCD monitor, I was able to see a noticable difference
in terms of quality of display.
It's not because of resolution and I just couldn't tell exactly what the reason was.

And today, I helped my friend build his computer.
He connected it to his 50inch 1080p plasma TV, and I was easily able to tell that the quality was below any computer monitors that i've ever seen.

Another experience I had was that xbox360 connected to my 24inch LCD samsaung syncmaster monitor was so bad but my pc looks good on my monitor and my xbox360 looks good on my 27inch HDTV.

I came up with a conclusion that monitor is optimized for PC and gaming consoles are optimized for HDTV.

However, I don't really understand why it should be like that if resolutions for both monitor and TV are the same. No matter how hard I tweak the options on tv, it won't be able to immitate the monitor quality.

Could someone tell me why pc looks bad on TV?

When I google searched topics between monitor vs. TV, it seems everyone is talking about how small monitor could have higher resolution than big TV....and they kept talking about the resolution difference. It's true but it seems no one knows the truth that resolution isn't everything and pc looks much better on pc monitor.

Thank you in advance and hopefully someone will put an answer that can teach everyone a new lesson and they should never use TV as an alternative of computer monitor.
Edit 1: I am aware of cable qualities. I always use the top quality HDMI cables for both HDTV and LCD LED monitors so this is not the type of answers I am looking for.
Edit 2: I am also aware of quality of videocards and what they are capable of. I use ATI 6850 and my friend has 6870 and I tested on 1080p of monitor and 1080p tv so there is no difference in terms of resolution and quality of videocards used to test on diff display setting. That's not the answer I am looking for either. I am not talking about quality of computer or cable. I am only talking about TV vs. Monitor.

Answer
TVs tend to have lower resolutions in bigger screens, anf also have good built-in scaler chips (to scale non-native resolutions to the display) as they will have lots of different resolutions sent to them (probably 10+ just from different xbox games)

PC monitors don't have good scalers built-in (and some don't even have any at all!) making them rather rubbish for displaying non-native resolution input such as console games (1280X600 on a 1920X1080 screen? without a good scaler is ugly... and thats near best case scenario, some things like the wii are only at 852x480)

So yeah basically,
TV -> PC - low pixel density
Monitor -> Console - rubbish scaler.

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