I am in the market for either a monitor or a TV and I want a device which will basically do everything.
My biggest interest is a monitor. I typically run 2048x768 on twin heads but I have cards which can support up to four (4) heads. I'm running currently about one of the smallest fonts there is and I'm usually in BASH. In fact I don't really like a GUI. Next what I would like to do is be able to bring in a TV signal. My question is will the current 1080p TV's do the same job as a monitor? If the specs are as I think they are then the answer should be yes. 1080p should be 1080p regardless if there is a TV tuner and other junk in the thing or not! What this means is that I should forget a monitor and simply buy a TV which has a rating of 1080p. Then with this I have the ability to drive the TV from say a VCR tape and I _should_ be able to pick up the outputs and burn it to a DVD and after that if I wish I should be able to read the DVD in the computer and later edit it and the same device works as a monitor. Am I missing something? A 27" Viewsonic monitor running 1080p at BestBuy is $370. They sell a 32" TV with dual HDMI interfaces for about $400. So why would I want to buy the monitor? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
