Dual Screen setup

[LuckyTaxi]

We're looking to purchase a couple of monitor/TV to display our monitoring tool. At my old job we purchased a large TV (Sony 42" LCD TV) for our conference room. Folks were able to project their laptop onto the TV. It was pretty nice.

Anyways, where I am at now, we want to have two monitors with the capibility of extended the one monitor so we can show two different screens on one PC. Are we better off getting two large monitors or two TV? I ask because I can't seem to find an LCD monitor larger than 32" In addition the resolution on the 32" are like 1380x768 or something. Seems smaller than that of my 19" monitor (1440x900). Also, I wasn't sure if we could do "dual monitors" on two TVs, I know we can clone it onto the TV.

 

[DJFuji]

LCD monitors will pretty much max out at 30" and they'll also take two DVI ports to drive them cause of their huge resolutions. 1080p HDTVs should run 1920x1080 fine though.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: DJFuji
LCD monitors will pretty much max out at 30" and they'll also take two DVI ports to drive them cause of their huge resolutions. 1080p HDTVs should run 1920x1080 fine though.

Is there a downside to using a big (say, 42") 1080p LCD HDTV as a primary monitor on a desktop? I'm looking at the 120 Hz panels. I know it'll be huge but I won't be sitting that close to it.

 

[DJFuji]

I'm wondering the same thing myself. I've read that using large LCD HDTVs as monitors isnt great for reading text because your eyes have to move around a lot because of the size. I'm on a 24" monitor right now though and it's not really noticeable. The other thing i've read is that some LCD HDTVs have lag so theyre not great for gaming. Not sure how accurate that is though.

Anyone have any experience with running larger HDTVs at 1080p for a monitor?

I'm in the market myself for a second monitor and i think it'd be awesome to have a 40" LCD bolted to the wall as my display.

 

[Rifter]

I have been using a Sony Bravia S3000 32" LCD HDTV for my display for a few months, its hooked up with a VGA cable, running at its max 1366X768 720P res so ill chime in on this one, especially since i just moved my computer today to another room and bought a BenQ E2200HD So i have some comparison for it.

Sony was great, i used it for 2 years of PS3 gaming as well as HDTV before getting my computer and its great, very crisp picture and text AWESOME color definition and no lag whatsoever. Also scaled great, no matter what the input res it looked good, something which this BenQ im looking at right now really blows at doing. Since hooking the sony up to my PC it took a while to get used to, had to make the fonts larger and zoom in on most webpages which leads to alot more scrolling but i was sitting 5-6 feet from it most of the time, in games i sat right infront(1-2 feet) of it as you cant make the game maps/hud bigger in most PC games and it looked amazing. If it was possible i would move my computer back there and sit 2 feet from it all the time and it would be SWEET cause then you could leave the fonts normal sized and not zoom in.

My opinon of the BenQ E2200HD is that its great for the price and has a lot of real estate onscreen due to the full 1080P res. But in all aspects its a joke compared to the Sony Bravia but thats also an unfair comparison as i just paid $200 for the E2200HD and i paid $1100 for the sony 2 years ago.

That all being said i am saving up for a 32" LCD TV for my display but this time im going with a 1080P model probably the Sharp Aquos. And if you are wondering why i moved the comp out of the TV room its cause my g/f just upgraded her computer so i moved mine into the same room cause we game alot together and its just better than yelling at each other from differnt sides of the house