Switch from monitors to tv

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I know nothing about HDTV's.

So I've always used monitors as a college student in the dorms for everything from external laptop screen to my xbox 360, but I'm starting to want a real TV.

I play extremely competitive Halo among other 360 games, and have played on quite a few TV's with poor response times and it's miserable. Does 120hz fix this?

I'm looking for something 32-40", 1080p, preferably no more than 750 (I'd buy it used probably, craigslist is my best friend). Or is buying a used HDTV a bad idea?

What TV's should I be looking at for this? I see a lot of guys in the post your setup thread that use HDTV's as monitors, are most of those 32?

Just need some help here, as I honestly know nothing about the topic, thanks
 
120hz on a TV is not the real deal, it's still only 60hz at the input, and the rest are artificially created frames. Prepare for some headaches though while setting everything up, LCD TV's are not plug and play like traditional PC monitors, it'll take some tweaking in the TV menu and video control panel. If everything doesn't look 100% sharp then it means you have more tweaking to do.

Here's a few recent threads, note all the discussion on the Sony 32EX400, one of it's biggest strengths as a monitor is it's decently low input lag, a rare thing amongst 2010 LCD televisions:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1549152

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1546058

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1546729

And if you're craving something bigger, the next size up is the 40" Sony 40EX400. I may be wrong but I think you may want to keep a minimum 3ft viewing distance with the 40" size.

Yes, most of us recent purchasers seem to be using 32", but people in the past were buying 37" westinghouse's like crazy.
 
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JDMFSeanP said:
Wow, awesome response thank you so much
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NP,

As for gaming, supposedly that's one of the EX400's strengths compared to other LCD televisions.

As for text, i have no idea. Though i imagine we would have run across some complaints by now if it were that bad. There's also the possibility that regular black/white text would be crisp, whereas red or green text may look smudged, it's not definite, but it seems to be a common problem with LCD TV's.


Hopefully Eiolon or other Sony EX40o owners can provide more info.
 
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