Good display choice?

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Scintir

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I was looking into buying an HDTV around the price range of $500. I have found a few from newegg that might provide me with what I want. I want to know a few things though. I do play a large amount of games and love HD content, so I wanted to know how these TVs would stand with games being played on them. I plan on hooking it up with HDMI from my HD4870 and gaming on it. I currently play on a 20in WS Acer monitor with the resolution of 1600 X 1200. What would be the change from this to a 32in LCD HDTV.

I would like to use this for all my computer functions (games, surfing, IMing, etc...) as well as possibly hook up my PS3 to it . I really don't want a image quality drop if I am switching from this type of monitor to that. If possibly, I would like everyone willing to give me their opinions on how the image quality would pan out and if it would really be worth it. If it is going to be a large image quality drop from this, I will probably say screw it and stick with my current monitor.

Newegg LCD HDTVs:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889197003 AOC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889022022 OLEVIA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889112023 SCEPTRE
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889107012 ViewSonic

Current Monitor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009108


There is also this TV, which has a much better contrast ratio and is a better name (Panasonic). So, if the price stays low, I might also be willing to grab this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889187077

Thanks in advance for your comments :D.
 
Is that really a trusted re-seller, and also what would gaming look like on it? That is a big thing, use to see a lot of TVs with terrible picture quality when hooking a computer up to it, has it since changed, and with HDMI would the quality look at good as a monitor? Can anyone say if it would be worse or better, and by how much, if it is noticeable, etc...

Thanks for the current responses so far though ^^.
 
I have a olevia 32inch lcd 720p tv and I love it.I have had ot for 2 years and never a problem from it.
A 360 looks great on it and my pc looked awesome on it but i was limited in the resolution.

720p is fine for me on a tv set since it is still alot better then 480i/p
 
So compared to a monitor, it has similar quality? No blurry picture, but a clear crisp picture that rivals a monitor? =D. I believe 720p would be just fine for me as well, I was just worried about games appearing blurry or anything else that would lead me to stick with a monitor.

If it is crisp and has a high quality that rivals or is better than a monitor instead of being worse, than I will definitely go this way. :)
 
Right now I'm using a 26" Sony Bravia 720p set for my monitor since my SyncMaster 930B took a crap, and for gaming it works very well, but I find that the 1360x768 resolution is leaving much to be desired for web browsing or office work. Fortunately I don't have any image lag that I've heard about with using an HDTV as a PC monitor.

A 32" 1080p set, or better yet, a "true" LCD PC monitor is the way to go.
 
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