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General Comment: Gaming in 1080p on the big screen is such a joy...

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I just finished Splinter Cell: Conviction on my PC maxed out @ 1080p and it was absolutely engrossing.

While DiRT 2 and others look fantastic, this one takes the cake for now.
 
I used to try to play games on my 52" rear projection TV, but sadly my old HTPC didn't have the horsepower to push the games at 1726x971 (overscan-corrected resolution).

My current HTPC has more than enough power for 1366x768 in most current games w/AA, but I absolutely hate using a keyboard/mouse without a desk, so I just play on my main PC.
 
I still prefer gaming in front of my computer monitor, even though I have a 58" plasma hanging around in the living room going largely unused unless I play the PS3 or maybe watch an hour or two of TV a week.

I know one part of that is simply the fact that I'd have to create some interestingly customized setup to use a keyboard and mouse egronomically on my couch. The only time I use a gamepad is for racing and fighters, neither of which I really play on the computer anyway.

The second part is probably me enjoying confined spaces. I feel more engrossed and comfortable in a tiny, walled off cubicle than I do in an open living room. So, huddling in front of 23" or 24" monitor in my office is much more psychologically appealing and egronomically comfortable than sitting on my couch in the living room. I do have a pretty crappy couch, so I'm sure that's not helping matters.
 
I have an Samsung 32" LCD TV that's a few years old (1366x768) that I'm thinking of replacing with a 47-50" LED LCD TV this coming Christmas. Am considering moving the 32" to my computer desk and hooking in, as I'm pretty sure my rig could handle just about everything maxed at that resolution. I'm just not sure if I'd be able to actually do any work on the PC with such a big screen/low-resolution compared to my 21.5" running at 1920x1080.
 
i tried doing the PC/FPS on the tv with the 360 controller...like others have said, i have to have a really awkward setup to play comfortably. I just stick to the norm, keyboard/mouse on PC monitor. but the games that do work with the tv do look better on a larger tv. Dirt 2/just cause 2 for example
 
GTA 4 works well on a HDTV with a 360 controller. If your PC is fast enough to run it with the detail cranked up at 1080p it will make the 360 and PS3 versions look very old.
 
My HTPC only has a 4550, so it's not much of a gaming machine. I replaced my 24" computer monitor with a 32" 1080p TV, and I definitely like level of immersion. Since I sit 3' from the 32" and 9' from my 50" TV, I prefer gaming on the 32" anyways.
 
I haven't tried hooking my PC up to my projector yet... but I will one of these days ... Until then I've played 800x600 on my old 61inch RPTV that I no longer have, and I've played a Lot of 1920x1200 on a 24 inch or 1280x768 on a 26inch.

That said, the only games I've been playing as of late are X3 Terran Conflict Xtended Mod, Sins of a Solar Empire Trinity, and Total Annihilation.... Of those, X3 is really the only one that would benefit from 106 inch screen 🙂
 
I'm using a 37" Vizio 1080p TV as my computer monitor. I really wanted a 40" but I just couldn't fit one on my computer desk and still keep my DirecTV box in the cubby hole in the hutch over the TV. I think it works just fine for browsing the internet or working in MS Office.

I've got a fairly large, older computer desk so between the desktop and the keyboard tray I end up sitting about 24" away from the monitor while typing on my keyboard.
 
I have a 42" plasma in my room that hasn't been used in at least a month, because I'm too lazy to use it instead of my monitor. Eventually I'll go back and play mostly my xbox for a while, it goes in cycles. I would like to use the tv for some pc gaming, but I don't have a 360 controller for it and I'm not sure how it works to play full screen games on a secondary display. The tv is set up as a display, but I'm not sure how to get full screen games to open on it instead of my main monitor.

And then if I ever went back to my monitor, I'd have to change all of the settings again, just seems like more work than it's worth.
 
I wish 2160p was out 🙂 1080p looks a little bit blocky a lot of the time unless you're sitting at least 8' away. I do agree though, it's fun to get something cooking on the big screen. It will probably take foreeeeeever until 2160p really gets rolling, or who knows, maybe something else will come and leapfrog the 2160p standard before it gets going. I think the ideal for a 60" screen would be something like 16000x9000 pixels 😀
 
For me the experience is taken to a new level by being able to use my home theatre sound setup. 1080P on 50"+ is great, 60"+ plasma from 8' would be ideal, but the 30" 2560P PC monitors are likely unrivaled visually. It's the ability to sit inside the sound chamber of 2k+ of home theatre equipment where typical PC gaming can't touch HTPC gaming IME.

Havent played games sitting in front of the pc monitor in a long time.
 
Monster_Munch said:
GTA 4 works well on a HDTV with a 360 controller. If your PC is fast enough to run it with the detail cranked up at 1080p it will make the 360 and PS3 versions look very old.
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Yea a game like GTA IV would be perfect for that since you don't need a KB/M but I don't have wireless KB/M and then you'd need a table to be the perfect height to play properly.
 
Arkaign said:
I wish 2160p was out 🙂 1080p looks a little bit blocky a lot of the time unless you're sitting at least 8' away. I do agree though, it's fun to get something cooking on the big screen. It will probably take foreeeeeever until 2160p really gets rolling, or who knows, maybe something else will come and leapfrog the 2160p standard before it gets going. I think the ideal for a 60" screen would be something like 16000x9000 pixels 😀
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Me too. If display technology pixel densities actually kept up with GPUs abilities to drive resolutions, we wouldn't need such massive AA.
 
Arkaign said:
I wish 2160p was out 🙂 1080p looks a little bit blocky a lot of the time unless you're sitting at least 8' away. I do agree though, it's fun to get something cooking on the big screen. It will probably take foreeeeeever until 2160p really gets rolling, or who knows, maybe something else will come and leapfrog the 2160p standard before it gets going. I think the ideal for a 60" screen would be something like 16000x9000 pixels 😀
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I'd say the ideal is 300 pixels per inch to match high end print

current high end pixel density on consumer monitors is only 109ppi on a monitor like my Dell U2711. 2560x1440 @ 27"... Tripling up the resolution to 7680x4320 would net us that desired ppi.

Your 60" @ 16,000x9,000 would hit that 300ppi mark as well, but regardless of screensize 300ppi should be the goal. Aliasing would be a non issue. Of course such resolutions would be staggeringly demanding, particularly if we give them an ideal refresh rate (ie 480Hz or higher)
 
I just don't see the appeal. I've yet to see a TV that can reproduce the image like a computer monitor can, they always have some issue with scaling/text/blocky/tearing/etc. Until that somehow fixed a TV is for tv/movies only.
 
imaheadcase said:
I just don't see the appeal. I've yet to see a TV that can reproduce the image like a computer monitor can, they always have some issue with scaling/text/blocky/tearing/etc. Until that somehow fixed a TV is for tv/movies only.
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You need a TV that has 1:1 pixel mapping as an option. Then you don't get the weird text scaling issue.
 
imaheadcase said:
I just don't see the appeal. I've yet to see a TV that can reproduce the image like a computer monitor can, they always have some issue with scaling/text/blocky/tearing/etc. Until that somehow fixed a TV is for tv/movies only.
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my cheap dynex scales pretty well. fits better on the screen than my Samsung. my samsung always has to have non-standard resolutions
 
I just started playing on my new 55inch samsung. I bought usb extender cables so I can play somewhat comfortably from the couch. I need to find a table that is the right height. The one I am using is a little too low.
 
I'm weird, I don't really like gaming on my TV at all. My PC is for games and my TV is for movies/sports.

KT
 
KeithTalent said:
I'm weird, I don't really like gaming on my TV at all. My PC is for games and my TV is for movies/sports.

KT
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I played L4D2 on my 42" LCD tv with 5.1 sound at night and it was awesome but just not something I'd want to do all the time since my computer is heavy and takes a while to set-up.
 
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