Does the pc play nice with a tv?

I heard there are issue hooking the pc up to the tv. For instance, I heard that even if I hook it up to my 1080p 3dtv, its wont look sharp as it should. Why? Is this true?

I want to set up a temporary rig until 720 comes out. Will the pc hook up to my tv as work just as good a a console would? I dont want issues. Thanks

no it dosnt quite look right trust me i have tried

I've tried it too, and it definitely looks funny on my t.v.'s default settings. I tinkered with the setting on my t.v. quite a bit and made it a little bit better, but it still isn't quite as high-quality as my monitor.

I've tried it too, and it definitely looks funny on my t.v.'s default settings. I tinkered with the setting on my t.v. quite a bit and made it a little bit better, but it still isn't quite as high-quality as my monitor.

shufu7-11

[QUOTE="shufu7-11"]

I've tried it too, and it definitely looks funny on my t.v.'s default settings. I tinkered with the setting on my t.v. quite a bit and made it a little bit better, but it still isn't quite as high-quality as my monitor.

fr3ddiemercury

I haven't found this to be the case at all. I have a Panasonic VT25 50-inch 3d plasma, which has a hell of a picture. I use a 23-inch 1080p LCD monitor as well. When I use my TV as a monitor, it looks just fine. Nothing looks "funny." In fact, the colors really pop and the picture is quite sharp. The only issue is that a 50-inch screen at 1920x1080 resolution doesn't have nearly the pixel density of a 23-inch screen with the same resolution. So while the plasma has much better colors and viewing angles that my monitor, it doesn't look as sharp when sitting close to it.

[QUOTE="shufu7-11"]

I've tried it too, and it definitely looks funny on my t.v.'s default settings. I tinkered with the setting on my t.v. quite a bit and made it a little bit better, but it still isn't quite as high-quality as my monitor.

fr3ddiemercury

[QUOTE="fr3ddiemercury"]

[QUOTE="shufu7-11"]

I've tried it too, and it definitely looks funny on my t.v.'s default settings. I tinkered with the setting on my t.v. quite a bit and made it a little bit better, but it still isn't quite as high-quality as my monitor.

hartsickdiscipl

I haven't found this to be the case at all. I have a Panasonic VT25 50-inch 3d plasma, which has a hell of a picture. I use a 23-inch 1080p LCD monitor as well. When I use my TV as a monitor, it looks just fine. Nothing looks "funny." In fact, the colors really pop and the picture is quite sharp. The only issue is that a 50-inch screen at 1920x1080 resolution doesn't have nearly the pixel density of a 23-inch screen with the same resolution. So while the plasma has much better colors and viewing angles that my monitor, it doesn't look as sharp when sitting close to it.

[QUOTE="fr3ddiemercury"]

[QUOTE="shufu7-11"]

I've tried it too, and it definitely looks funny on my t.v.'s default settings. I tinkered with the setting on my t.v. quite a bit and made it a little bit better, but it still isn't quite as high-quality as my monitor.

C_Rule

So If I hook a pc up to my st50 and run it at 1080p, it will be a lot sharper than my 360 games?

So you've been playing TF2 for weeks now enough to heavily criticize the community, yet you're considering a gaming PC for the first time? I suspect some of these responses will be used in another one of your idiotic anti-PC threads. UCF_Knight

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[QUOTE="fr3ddiemercury"] that sucks. This is a deal killer for me. My plasma is the second best reviewed tv of all time, and leds do not come close to it. Especially some puny monitor. So basically there is no chance of me pc gaming on it? Why do pcs not play well? It doesn't make sense, what is causing this? Why does a console look fine but a pc fcks up the picture? I mean wth... and here I ready to get a rig for the first time.

fr3ddiemercury

I haven't found this to be the case at all. I have a Panasonic VT25 50-inch 3d plasma, which has a hell of a picture. I use a 23-inch 1080p LCD monitor as well. When I use my TV as a monitor, it looks just fine. Nothing looks "funny." In fact, the colors really pop and the picture is quite sharp. The only issue is that a 50-inch screen at 1920x1080 resolution doesn't have nearly the pixel density of a 23-inch screen with the same resolution. So while the plasma has much better colors and viewing angles that my monitor, it doesn't look as sharp when sitting close to it.

Because I am a PC gamer, I like to sit pretty close to the screen. I also don't have a good setup in my room to use mouse+keyboard with my TV. TBH, I think my TV is too big for the room that it's in. I don't know if I could sit the "recommended distance" from it.

Personally, I prefer using my 40" 1080p HDTV for PC games over my 23" 1080p monitor. The bigger screen makes my games feel more immersive, and I can sit back and relax while I'm playing. And I have more adjustment options than just contrast and brightness, so the image quality is better using my 40" HDTV as well...superclocked

[QUOTE="fr3ddiemercury"]

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

I haven't found this to be the case at all. I have a Panasonic VT25 50-inch 3d plasma, which has a hell of a picture. I use a 23-inch 1080p LCD monitor as well. When I use my TV as a monitor, it looks just fine. Nothing looks "funny." In fact, the colors really pop and the picture is quite sharp. The only issue is that a 50-inch screen at 1920x1080 resolution doesn't have nearly the pixel density of a 23-inch screen with the same resolution. So while the plasma has much better colors and viewing angles that my monitor, it doesn't look as sharp when sitting close to it.

hartsickdiscipl

Because I am a PC gamer, I like to sit pretty close to the screen. I also don't have a good setup in my room to use mouse+keyboard with my TV. TBH, I think my TV is too big for the room that it's in. I don't know if I could sit the "recommended distance" from it.

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[QUOTE="fr3ddiemercury"] Pixel density doesn't matter, as long as you sit the appropraite distance. A 50" 1080p tv has the same sharpness as a 20" 1080p monitor as long as you sit the recommended distance from them.

fr3ddiemercury

Because I am a PC gamer, I like to sit pretty close to the screen. I also don't have a good setup in my room to use mouse+keyboard with my TV. TBH, I think my TV is too big for the room that it's in. I don't know if I could sit the "recommended distance" from it.

Yeah, it is nice to play on the Panny with the lights off and the volume up. Back to my original point though- No issues with PC+TV for me.

[QUOTE="fr3ddiemercury"][QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

Because I am a PC gamer, I like to sit pretty close to the screen. I also don't have a good setup in my room to use mouse+keyboard with my TV. TBH, I think my TV is too big for the room that it's in. I don't know if I could sit the "recommended distance" from it.

hartsickdiscipl

Yeah, it is nice to play on the Panny with the lights off and the volume up. Back to my original point though- No issues with PC+TV for me.

[QUOTE="superclocked"]Personally, I prefer using my 40" 1080p HDTV for PC games over my 23" 1080p monitor. The bigger screen makes my games feel more immersive, and I can sit back and relax while I'm playing. And I have more adjustment options than just contrast and brightness, so the image quality is better using my 40" HDTV as well...fr3ddiemercury

[QUOTE="shufu7-11"]

I've tried it too, and it definitely looks funny on my t.v.'s default settings. I tinkered with the setting on my t.v. quite a bit and made it a little bit better, but it still isn't quite as high-quality as my monitor.

fr3ddiemercury

That is true on the 'fuzzy' part and tv. After hooking up with the pc and tv, everything console game out there looks fuzzy to me. Ex. Dirt 2/3 blow chunks out of Forza series.

the TV is actually all right for 720p. my tv does 1360 x 768 and it does its job rather well. i cant go back to my 1440 x 900 19" acer monitor. i just cant bring myself to do it.

Here is my experience.. I connected my pc to my tv using hdmi, i plugged the hdmi into a random hdmi slot on my tv, It looked so bad, the text had weird pinkish purple pixels. my background was grainy. Then i tried running the witcher 2. At first it was ok but it animation input lag, Then suddenly the colors would go all weird. For example brown would look orange, blue would look purple. (This is with a 32" Sony full HD 1080p 200hz 3dtv). So i examined the back of my tv abit more and i saw a special kind of hdmi, It was HDMI/PC and it only had one on my tv and 4 other normal HDMI. So i plugged the HDMI cable into the HDMI/PC and it look so amazing! like the color, brightness and sharpness was so much better than my samsung 22" syncMaster 2333 monitor. Also the fluidity of the games were much better also. I don't know if it would look good to others or it only look better to me because my first experience was terrible!!!!

With Windows 7 or earlier you have to increase the DPI scaling so you can read a lot of the Windows UI text. However, many games don't handle that very well, so you have to set the properties of their .exe files to switch off DPI scaling when you run them.

The main downside to using a TV is that I find RTS or simulations harder to use - the information about specific units (or whatever) is often very difficult to read at a distance.

Be careful about burn in using a PC with a plasma, things like the start bar don't move.

Be careful about burn in using a PC with a plasma, things like the start bar don't move.

kraken2109

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Be careful about burn in using a PC with a plasma, things like the start bar don't move.

_SKatEDiRt_

I have my PC hooked up to both my 24" LED monitor and my 46" LCD HDTV (for games I want to play from my couch with a controller) and at the bigger distance I'm sitting when gaming on the HDTV, I can't really tell the difference. Up close it doesn't look as sharp as on my monitor but again, at a greater distance, all my games look great.

I use a 24" 1080p TV as a PC monitor. I hook up my PC sometimes to a 39" 1080p TV in the family room. I even used a 32" 720p TV before that. Looked okay to me.

720p:

You won't know until you try it with your TV. You must have a computer if you're posting here. Try that first and see.