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It depends a lot on where are you from and how experienced you are (which translates to how much money do you earn). A tip from country where the price differe
by dzek69 8y ago
It depends a lot on where are you from and how experienced you are (which translates to how much money do you earn).
A tip from country where the price difference matters:
Look for a TV, not PC monitor. They're often cheaper while having the same ports to connect it to a computer. But beware - some of them have always-on overscan which means you will get blurry effect and cropped picture. Make sure you can disable that (look for overscan, PC mode or something like that) before buying. Testing it on laptop before buying seems to be a good idea too - my mother's TV has option to disable overscan, but only on old VGA input. On HDMI it is always on anyway.
- ansible 8y agoI'm not angry at you, but at the TV manufacturers... Why the hell do we need overscan for anything that isn't an actual analog TV signal?
- yellowapple 8y agoIIRC even digital streams sometimes include extra stuff on the edges for various technical reasons, with the assumption that the TV will hide it.
- rbanffy 8y agoThere is a circle of hell waiting for people who do that.
- kbenson 8y agoI picked up a 4k TV (Vizio D40u-D1) as a monitor after quite a bit of research a year ago and I'm quite happy with it. It's a bit large at 40", but all I had to do was adapt to thinking of it as multiple floating screens, and treat it as such, given I have the equivalent of four 1080p screens... using almost the same amount of area. My browser always occupies the lower left quadrant, and event at 1/4 of the total screen it's still 1080p, or maybe a little more since I eyeballed it and didn't dock it there. It's easy enough to make any terminal larger and then I'm essentially gaining the same benefit of high pixel density. I wanted to make sure the TV I got supported 60Hz at 4k, and had low input lag (for when I play games occasionally), so I found rtings.com[1] to be invaluable. Using a TV as a monitor has it's quirks (I turn it on separately with the remote on the desk because it's easiest), but at just over $400 when I bought it on sale ($500 now[2]) for a 40" 4k monitor that has 13ms input lag, I'm not sure how I could have done better. Edit: Had the amazon price wrong, was looking at the 1080p one. 1: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/vizio/d-series-4k-2016 https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/vizio/d-series-4k-2016 2: https://www.amazon.com/VIZIO-D40-D1-Class-Array-Smart/dp/B01A0LGV06/ https://www.amazon.com/VIZIO-D40-D1-Class-Array-Smart/dp/B01...