Using an TV as a monitor?

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I'm looking at buying a 32" TV to hook up to my PC via HDMI.
The Hisense HD-Ready D33 LEDN32D33 seems to fit my budget and will be used for movies and gaming.

First, would it be possible to connect to my PC via HDMI without any problems?
Second and importantly, would there be any issues gaming on the TV?

Thanks
 
Sorry to say thats going to suck.

HD ready is not sufficient for that application. I know because I've got one standing on my desk next to me (Samsung though). Its OK for movies, but games and normal PC stuff...not a chance.
 
NeoAtlas said:
It will be hooked up to an AMD R7 260X via HDMI. My Main concern is the gaming.
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That card should be more than fine. Though, the TV in question may not be- it's 1366x768, so you're not gonna be able to perform 1:1 pixel mapping because HDMI does not support that resolution, which will result in rectangular / stretched pixels.

Perhaps rather look for a decent used true HD TV? Carbonite would be a good place to start...
 
If Windows uses the default driver for the tv and there is no driver provided or picked up online.

Then you might have issues if you have a Nvidia Graphics Card in terms of overscan.

You can configure this within the nvidia control panel but it can be a mission at times. ATI graphics cards and the drivers have a simpler easier interface to fix the issue.

But otherwise you should not have issues. Just remember dont play anything less than 60HZ for a good pc gaming experience, in my opinion.

otherwise you should be good to go.

NeoAtlas said:
I'm looking at buying a 32" TV to hook up to my PC via HDMI.
The Hisense HD-Ready D33 LEDN32D33 seems to fit my budget and will be used for movies and gaming.

First, would it be possible to connect to my PC via HDMI without any problems?
Second and importantly, would there be any issues gaming on the TV?

Thanks
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Thanks for the info. I am trying to avoid any complications and a FullHD TV may be the way to go. I do, however see that the TV supports VGA input. Would that help support the TV resolution for gaming?
 
NeoAtlas said:
Thanks for the info. I am trying to avoid any complications and a FullHD TV may be the way to go. I do, however see that the TV supports VGA input. Would that help support the TV resolution for gaming?
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Nope. Even downscaling the TV resolution to 720p via HDMI will leave you with missing pixels. Also, you will then still need to output audio separately.
 
NeoAtlas said:
Thanks for the info. I am trying to avoid any complications and a FullHD TV may be the way to go. I do, however see that the TV supports VGA input. Would that help support the TV resolution for gaming?
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If you are worried about your gaming, get a full HD set, otherwise this will suffice.
 
how far are you going to sit? close and you are going to have lots of pixels. Get a decent 1080p monitor if you are gaming. Seems you are worried more about the games than the movies.
 
I'm using a Sinotec 24" Full HD TV as my monitor. It works really well through VGA. I recently tried it with an HDMI cable and it doesn't work well at all. Either it crops the edges or blurs the text if I can get it to fit the screen.

You shouldn't have a problem using an HD Ready TV through VGA. Something I did experience when doing that with Radeon cards is if the TV has a resolution of 1280x768, you have to set something like 1280x800 for example, but that was with a 16:10 aspect screen. I didn't have this issue when using an NVidia card.
 
Sinotec LED FHD 32inch not too expensive at the mo. Picture quality is very good.
 
LPCPT said:
Sinotec LED FHD 32inch not too expensive at the mo. Picture quality is very good.
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You have to be careful though, some TV's don't work well as PC monitors. The tend to double pixels rendering some text blurry or unreadable. What I do is take a flash drive with me containing a screenshot of my desktop at various resolutions. That will give you a vague idea of how it will look as a PC monitor.

When I bought this 24" screen there was an equivalent Hisense model available. I tested it, and found it to be completely unsuitable as a PC monitor.

Also, if there's one brand to avoid at all costs Telefunken would be it. Their products are badly misrepresented. Some of their "Full HD" TV's don't even give an HD Ready quality output.
 
Totempole said:
You have to be careful though, some TV's don't work well as PC monitors. The tend to double pixels rendering some text blurry or unreadable. What I do is take a flash drive with me containing a screenshot of my desktop at various resolutions. That will give you a vague idea of how it will look as a PC monitor.

When I bought this 24" screen there was an equivalent Hisense model available. I tested it, and found it to be completely unsuitable as a PC monitor.

Also, if there's one brand to avoid at all costs Telefunken would be it. Their products are badly misrepresented. Some of their "Full HD" TV's don't even give an HD Ready quality output.
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I did notice a lot of stores advertising 32" TVs as FullHD(1080p) when they are actually HD-Ready. It seems as though there are no 32" FullHD TVs and only advertising 40" TV with FullHD capabilities, which is to big for my needs.
 
psion said:
how far are you going to sit? close and you are going to have lots of pixels. Get a decent 1080p monitor if you are gaming. Seems you are worried more about the games than the movies.
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I will be sitting about 1.5m from the TV when gaming and about 2.5-3m when watching movies. I will gaming and watching movies on equal measure.
 
tip,dont get a cheap 1080p tv,in hdmi it will look ****
and with vga will be limited to 720p,but it looks alot better

im looking to get a samsung 5303 for a pc screen,
but worried about the text,

have used a jvc and a telefunkin 32" ,not so great at 1080p,text will be a pain to read and hurts your eyes

but movies etc looks fine :)

also get a led,
the telefunkin have alot ghosting probs (lcd)
where the jcv led dont have it
 
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