So as there is small chance I would get smart TV with HDMI as a free giveaway, I was thinking if I could use it as a 2nd monitor, but there probably is reasons why people rather buy monitors instead of TVs Slow update rates might be reason and I can't find anything on that for specific model. My current monitor is Fujitsu 27SL or something like that, ghosting happens a lot and red hue is happening a lot if looked even slight angle, not really best. So I'm curious if someone has attempted to use TV as a monitor and found it impossible?
I mean if you can find one with 5ms of response time or less, that'd be great. But then there's also this. https://kodi.wiki/view/Raspberry_Pi
I'm reading many of them have 30ms response times, but don't know if that is gtg like monitors are reporting, which is kinda like fake, my monitor has 2ms gtg but there is really much ghosting as real in practice response time is far greater. Oeh noes, I'm trying to stay away from Rasberry, like way too much project stuff already Besides I don't have more than one HDMI, GPU has mostly DP connectors which might need adapter or something for HDMI to have TV as second monitor for browsing web and stuff like that if it is too slow for gaming. For modding having 2nd monitor would help a lot though.
My dad actually used an giant HDTV as a monitor for his PC and it worked pretty well, so I think you're fine if it's a modern TV.
You can, I don't recommend it. You'll probably have to deal with overscan, low response times, weird frame rate trickery that causes problems on PCs, scaling, and any number of other potential problems.
All I can say is that with 39" TV BeamNG looks stunning, textures look so much better, bump maps and shadows are much more realistic looking, instead of odd colored blotches with TV there is depth in textures. Also it is like having 16.8 million colors instead of 65k colors, my poor old 27" monitor was not the best. Trees look much better too, texture of dashboards etc has clear 3D surface texture, like more 3D instead of flat 2D, everything has more depth to it, but mostly it is BeamNG where there is huge difference, other games are not gaining so much from some reason. Not sure why normal maps work much better with TV than they did with old monitor, maybe it is capability of displaying more shades of color accurately or something. Like two grays are same in monitor and possible to tell difference in TV. No real issues, except consumes more power and top of screen is bit too high, need to make new table. Even view angles are far greater, color does not change when moving head 5cm, there is less ghosting than with old monitor and bevels are thinner, so don't see point of buying monitor on budget, when one can get much better experience with TV. Size is nice for old eyes of mine, 39" 1080p makes text to be readable again. --- Post updated --- Edge of pavement kinda shows how it is not flat, but shows some shape and with old monitor that was flat as flat can be:
