Using HDTV as monitor

custardy

I run a 24" monitor and run an HDMI feed to the 50" plasma for media playback
I did use the onboard graphics HDMI but it was laggy for the 2nd display.
the nvidia 460 GT does the job easily
obviously for surfing etc the text isnt as sharp as the 24" (1920x1200)monitor

Chickabiddybex

I've used many different TVs as monitors and they all worked fine.

Games consoles are computers really. And they all plug into your TV. There's no one specific difference between a TV screen and a PC monitor.

iwb100

Chickabiddybex wrote: »

I've used many different TVs as monitors and they all worked fine.

Games consoles are computers really. And they all plug into your TV. There's no one specific difference between a TV screen and a PC monitor.

Well except that often monitors are designed with the purposes of using a computer and TV's are not.

Input lag, motion blur, sharpness, colour reproduction, can all be issues with a PC plugged into a TV.

Often TV's come with PC modes that get around many if not all of these problems.

But whilst the technology may be the same, the design and features are very different.

almillar

JulyKnot - does your graphics card do widescreen sizes? 1920x1080 for example, rather than only 4:3 sizes like 1024x768? I still don't think you've told us what type of connection you're using - VGA, DVI or HDMI being the likely ones.
I've seen 'no overscan' being called several things: Just scan, 1:1, pixel by pixel and others I'm sure.
For your TV, look at page 43 of the manual. In the settings section, screen settings, display area - set it to 'Full Pixel'. See how that goes and let us know...

spud17

32" 403 Sony here, try looking in Home|Settings|Display|Screen| Display Area.

JulyKnot

almillar wrote: »

JulyKnot - does your graphics card do widescreen sizes? 1920x1080 for example, rather than only 4:3 sizes like 1024x768? I still don't think you've told us what type of connection you're using - VGA, DVI or HDMI being the likely ones.
I've seen 'no overscan' being called several things: Just scan, 1:1, pixel by pixel and others I'm sure.
For your TV, look at page 43 of the manual. In the settings section, screen settings, display area - set it to 'Full Pixel'. See how that goes and let us know...

Thank you so much. I would never have figured that out by myself.

Brilliant!