Stumped trying to find suitable 32" multipurpose LCD TV

[skeedo]

For quite some time now I've been after a 32" LCD that I would like to use with my PC for gaming, as well as watching TV/movies. This has been somewhat difficult because I am looking for something that absolutely must be 1080p as well as 120Hz (completely sick of dealing with vsync). I'm also looking for something with a display that has little to no discernible difference when viewing from different angles. When I sit on my couch to watch movies on my current monitor, the screen gets really dark from the angle and it is highly annoying to have to adjust the monitor all the time.

I've had my eye on the Vizio XVT323SV for a long time: http://www.amazon.com/VIZIO-XVT323SV...=3U514UUUWA2SS. However, I can't find it locally and the fact of ordering a 32" TV offline just plain scares me. Also not sure if there a better deals out there.

If anybody could offer me any suggestions for a 32" 120hz 1080p for around $500, that would be swell!

 

[OSXMan]

Check around for some of the samsung ones, I have one and I love it, no angle distortion, great tv, I have one and I love it, and I only paid about 500 bucks CAD for it at Wal-Mart.....however mine is only 60Hz I think, but I am sure by now you can get 120Hz ones.

Good luck!

 

[skeedo]

Cool thanks for the tip. Actually headin out to Walmart tomorrow to see what they got. Any other suggestions are still welcome

 

[kami]

Hold up. 120hz TVs do NOT accept a 120hz input from a PC. You will still only be feeding it 60hz then it will interpolate it to 120hz and this is only going to introduce extra input lag which is no good for gaming. Even 3DTVs don't do it... so this is not going to fix your vsync problem.

It's still perfectly fine to use a HDTV as a 1080p monitor but you will want to look out for a couple things. Does it support 4:4:4 chroma subsampling? Most TVs with some kind of PC mode for their HDMI input will but not all. Without it, some text will be hard or impossible to read on certain background colors. I can tell you that LG's with IPS panels do support it. IPS TVs in general work better as computer monitors but some PVA panels are just fine too. I have a cheapo Insignia 32" that works really well as a monitor, though no where near as good as my true 120hz 27" Asus. Also make sure the TV has an option to completely turn off all scaling and overscan and just display an unmolested signal. You'll also want to turn off all bullshit features like dynamic contrast, noise reduction, and any other special feature since these not only degrade image quality but also create more input lag.

 

[skeedo]

Oh wow, thanks for pointing all of this out. Now I'm starting to think I should just get a run of the mill LCD TV for watching movies/ secondary display and upgrade my current monitor

 

[Throckmorton]

As far as I know, only one or two TVs have EVER had 4:4:4 chroma subsampling... It's just not a thing that TVs have.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I think the lack of 4:4:4 Chroma subsampling on my Westinghouse 32" LCD TV's HDMI inputs, is why when I use my HTPC with it, and am browsing forums, letters in red have black specks in them.

Sometimes, black text on a white background, also has some blue fringing on the text, like Win7 menus.

The overall appearance, is almost like the TV is performing some sort of digital image processing, to give it that NTSC "feel" to it, even though I'm feeding it a perfectly clean digital HDMI signal.

 

[kami]

Strangely my cheap 32" 1080p Insignia does support it. The 2011 LG LCDs (LK450 series) do if they are IPS panel. 47" and up are always IPS but below that it's a lottery. You have to check the product code on the box. Google it and you'll find info.