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NO, TV's are monitors the only difference between a TV and a computer monitor is that Monitors do not have a ASTC tuner built in, and TV do.
are usually calibrated a little different, but u can adjust most of the controls on a good tv/monitor.
Either way monitors are designed for close operation to the user. Which is why they have higher Resolutions at smaller sizes, so you get a clear crisp picture. Tv's are built to be several feet away have lower resolutions for their size.
Sharpness all breaks down to how many pixels your screen has, and how big each pixel is. For example you have a 100" tv it has a resolution of 1080 each pixel would be about .05" big on a 24" monitor at the same resolution would be .012, The bigger the pixels the less sharp the picture is going to be, thus the less sharp small font text is going to be.
TVs might be monitors, but TVs are calibrated to give you over saturated Vibrant colours, and whites that are far too white to use for reading. maybe do some research?
TV, mainly LCD TV(and LED Tvs) have issues with displaying rendered fonts, and not because of the size, but because of the way TVs are setup. Monitors are not setup in the same way, the colours are not as saturated, neither are the whites.
on top of that, TVs are not built for low input lag, some have a game mode which will by-pass most of the functionality of the TV(120hz, "picture modes", and the scalar) to reduce input lag, and work better as a gaming TV / monitor. but still, it's not the size.
I just returned a 240HZ 42" LCD that I tried to use as a monitor. I had 0 issues with reading text(you can customize the size of the text in win7, also clear type helps) but the colours/whites were just too off from my 30" to get used to it.
Either way, you can go into the resolution settings on your Windows 7 machine (if you're using win7/vista) and adjust the text size and it should fix your issue.