led tv / gaming only

sioux

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I have a 27 inches monitor, it's pretty nice, but for gaming i'd like to have something bigger.
Only for PC games, and soon, PS4 as well.
Would you recommend an led tv 37 inches ( or bigger ) ?
How is the image quality on that size / full HD ?
What about the lag / input ?
Please tell me your ideas / advices /
I repet : for everyday use, like internet browsing, editing photos, etc, i have a 27 inches monitor.
Thank you in advance
 

_Rick_

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Most TVs work well with consoles. I sat myself right in front of a 50" plasma with a wheel and a set of pedals, and I didn't notice the relatively low resolution. Once you've got moving images and you focus on content, instead of pixel peeking, you won't notice it much. Menus aren't super pretty, but so what.
Didn't notice any lag, but that may be different from one TV to the next. Most shouldn't do too much post-processing on the HDMI inputs.

I'm not sure 37" is big enough to really make a difference over the 27" you have.
It also works better with some games vs. others. Racing games were great fun, and I could imagine that it also works nicely for anything where you have a cockpit or chase view, but FPS or RTS aren't great.
Eco-strategy games (Anno-like etc.) are fun, turn based games a matter of taste.

Basically anything where you don't need pixel-perfect twitch reaction will be fine, but the games where you do need them, playing at a desk and on a smaller screen is much easier.

Of course, if you stick to 37" and just use it as a bigger screen on your - there shouldn't really be much of a difference. But I don't think the immersion will be significantly better either.