LCD TV or Widescreen Monitor

[silent h3ro]

Are you going to be gaming a lot with this pc?

[Mad Cat]

I only looked at a couple of Plasmas, and they had 640x480 PC compatibility. It doesn't seem right to me, but I'd prefer an LCD to a plasma anyway. Plasmas can't be put on their sides, they're bastards if you want to do anything at all inside of them, they look clunkier than LCDs.... I don't trust them, I think LCD will win out as the better technology eventually too.

Edited for tenses (have to had, didn't read much into them).
EDIT2: http://www.plasmatvbuyingguide.com/p...-ppm50h3q.html
VGA, SVGA, XGA, it says, meaning 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768. Thats no good. I'm guessing it'll be scaled up to 16:9 too, which will look nasty.

I don't understand you. The link you posted shows a Native Resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels but you keep referring to lower values.

It probably would work at 1366, yeah, but then I don't see why it only talks about VGA, SVGA, XGA. If it were the fullscreen, it should show WXGA or something similar, I think. Look at
Data Signals
It confuses me.
VGA, SVGA, XGA

[Busyman]

Go with the Dell dude. Unless you were getting an LCD HDTV, don't bother.

I've played Xbox 360 games on my friend's 55" HDTV and it is gorgeous.

I have my dash on my modded Xbox in 1080i HD and it too is gorgeous....the games only play in 480p, however, so I don't get the full benefit.

Computer games would be another story but I imagine you'd need an HD card.

[Mad Cat]

Go with the Dell dude. Unless you were getting an LCD HDTV, don't bother.

I've played Xbox 360 games on my friend's 55" HDTV and it is gorgeous.

I have my dash on my modded Xbox in 1080i HD and it too is gorgeous....the games only play in 480p, however, so I don't get the full benefit.

Computer games would be another story but I imagine you'd need an HD card.

It'd be a 720p/1080i HDTV LCD that I'd get. The 1080p HDTVs would probably be a great idea, but they're only few, and very very expensive.
I will be doing a fair bit of gaming. Why would I need a HDTV card? My graphics cards maximum display is about 2048x1536 I think. I heard things about ATI's AVIVO, but didn't think it would matter.

[silent h3ro]

I only asked if u gamed a lot because with higher resolution grafics come higher gfx cards needed to display the game at resonable framerates and scaling the resolution down doesn't look too good. Although I heard something about how Dell monitors scale images down correctly somehow...

[cpt_azad]

dude, get the widescreen LCD TV i do not regret getting this tv at all, it kicks dell's ass and then some, right now im running at a resolution of (btw the TV has VGA input) 1360x768, and honestly it's an awesome resolution. I've played doom3, hl2, and a lot of things on it so far, and the resolution kicks ass, and yes I have tried it on a widescreen monitor (not dell) and 1900 resolution just isnt as great as compared to a huge widescreen TV w/ the lower res. u can't even freakin tell the diff.

edit: and yes, if you're going to buy an LCD TV, make sure it's HDTV out of the box, mine has 480i/480p/720p/1080i and yes 1080p , and it only cost me 890 bucks (go futureshop! w00t lol)

[silent h3ro]

Noice Azad!!!! What is ur screen size????

[ApacNTS]

heh, 890 isnt bad at all. got my attention hehe. i always noticed how i could see the individual pixels in my tv. it's 25inch, but as soon as i got it i saw em. now that i shifted my room it only got worse cause im right smack in front of it. blah, all this new stuff looks so nice it's like 3 things have jumped on my list for the new year: computer, xbox 360, hdtv/lcd(may have to double for computer to haha)

[Busyman]

heh, 890 isnt bad at all. got my attention hehe. i always noticed how i could see the individual pixels in my tv. it's 25inch, but as soon as i got it i saw em. now that i shifted my room it only got worse cause im right smack in front of it. blah, all this new stuff looks so nice it's like 3 things have jumped on my list for the new year: computer, xbox 360, hdtv/lcd(may have to double for computer to haha)

I just found out that the 360 does not upconvert DVDs to near-HD quality.

That just sucks.


My HDTV LCD, DLP, or plasma but it's 65" and has an excellent picture. My friend's 55" LCD looks pixelated and it's a Sony Grand Wega...I don't understand it.

[ApacNTS]

dont plan to watch dvd's on it, just play games with the 360 that is. are you saying it does that for the games as well?