Anyone Use A Monitor As A TV?
Anyone Use A Monitor As A TV?
My bedroom TV is about to crater and I'm about to purchase a new TV. I currently have a Toshiba 27" tube TV. I was thinking since I use SageTV and run all my receiver stuff through a computer anyway why not just get a monitor. Down the road when I need a HD tuner I can just pick one up and slap it in the computer. Anyone doing this and would it be a waste? Should I just pick up a regular TV set? I am looking at 22” monitors that are obviously 720P capable.
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Re: Anyone Use A Monitor As A TV?
I've got a 1998 vintage Packard-Bell Legend Supreme with the TV card installed in the machine. It works with just about any 15-pin RS-232 monitor plug and cable. So, I would expect other cards and monitors these days to do the same simple job. The old P-B with WIn98, 350-AMD CPU worked well without skipping or loss of picture quality.
Today, I believe a good ATI card can do this job too.
Today, I believe a good ATI card can do this job too.
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Re: Anyone Use A Monitor As A TV?
My mate uses his HD TV as a monitor, but im not sure how far away he tends to sit when he is on his PC.
If you pick up a big enough monitor then im sure it would work fine as a TV, another mate did that while he was at uni (22" monitor) and it worked fine for him. (Though he was only watching stuff from an internal TV card, but most cards come with a pass through IR thing so you can control a separate reciever (say for auto program recording etc))
Dan
If you pick up a big enough monitor then im sure it would work fine as a TV, another mate did that while he was at uni (22" monitor) and it worked fine for him. (Though he was only watching stuff from an internal TV card, but most cards come with a pass through IR thing so you can control a separate reciever (say for auto program recording etc))
Dan
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I would be hooking it up to my HTPC.
SageTV frontend
eVGA 6800nu w/ PureVideo
Hauppauge PVR150
Right now the PVR150 changes my channels, volume, etc... The only time I need my TV remote is to turn the TV off and on. A 22" monitor at Newegg with speakers is $240 the cheapest 22" HDTV I've seen is $299.99 plus tax.
SageTV frontend
eVGA 6800nu w/ PureVideo
Hauppauge PVR150
Right now the PVR150 changes my channels, volume, etc... The only time I need my TV remote is to turn the TV off and on. A 22" monitor at Newegg with speakers is $240 the cheapest 22" HDTV I've seen is $299.99 plus tax.