Okay, I have a 28" "class" (27.5") monitor that is going out. I would like to get a 28" or even a 30" IPS panel monitor. Prices have come down for 27" budget IPS panels $307 at Dell. It is hard to find 30 inch HDTV's now, but 32" are plentiful. Both the monitor and an HDTV have HDMI in and my Zotac Nvidia 250 GTS has an HDMI and DVI out.
If I were to purchase a 32" IPS LED LCD HDTV for general computing, would that work? I know the pixels might be slightly larger, but the price will probably be one-third of a 30" IPS LED LCD PC monitor.
Would this work? Any comments? Would big blobby pixels be the main downside? BTW, I know a lot of that these high price points are partly because the monitor's resolutions are 2550 x 1440. But almost every monitor vendor now sells a 27" 1920 by 1080 LED LCD for under $300 now that the antitrust lawsuits have had a chance to affect prices. And now quite a few vendors offer 27" LED IPS panels.
PS: the main reason I'm looking at a new monitor is my existing Hans G 27.5" non-LED LCD never did go to sleep after I bought my new computer a couple years ago with an MSI 7666 "Big Bang" X 58 mainboard and an Nvidia 250 display adapter. I move it over to my little Shuttle on a d-sub analog input and a sleeps just fine. However, it won't sleep under either the HDMI or the DVI output of my video card. The only two inputs the monitor has is HDMI and analog. I turn off every night. When I turn it on in the morning, sometimes absolutely nothing happens until I unplug the HDMI input on the monitor and put it back in while everything is running. (This is a brand-new DVI-D - HDMI cable.) I am loath to even try analog to analog on my i7 box.
If I were to purchase a 32" IPS LED LCD HDTV for general computing, would that work? I know the pixels might be slightly larger, but the price will probably be one-third of a 30" IPS LED LCD PC monitor.
Would this work? Any comments? Would big blobby pixels be the main downside? BTW, I know a lot of that these high price points are partly because the monitor's resolutions are 2550 x 1440. But almost every monitor vendor now sells a 27" 1920 by 1080 LED LCD for under $300 now that the antitrust lawsuits have had a chance to affect prices. And now quite a few vendors offer 27" LED IPS panels.
PS: the main reason I'm looking at a new monitor is my existing Hans G 27.5" non-LED LCD never did go to sleep after I bought my new computer a couple years ago with an MSI 7666 "Big Bang" X 58 mainboard and an Nvidia 250 display adapter. I move it over to my little Shuttle on a d-sub analog input and a sleeps just fine. However, it won't sleep under either the HDMI or the DVI output of my video card. The only two inputs the monitor has is HDMI and analog. I turn off every night. When I turn it on in the morning, sometimes absolutely nothing happens until I unplug the HDMI input on the monitor and put it back in while everything is running. (This is a brand-new DVI-D - HDMI cable.) I am loath to even try analog to analog on my i7 box.