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I'm sure a few have tried this before, but no one has given me a good argument for convincing the partner.

• outsomnia 2y ago
  Since a couple of years ago, I spent a year or so like this, with the TV resting on the desk directly. It looked pretty nice, but it had some problems. - The only actual 8K modes reported on the HDMI were some variant of YUV, it means you could not select what your OS considered an RGB mode - Even using it at 4K, with the 55" TV a couple of feet from the back of the desk, my eyes could not keep all of it perfectly in focus. - The power consumption was much higher than a typical ~30" monitor, and the amount of heat created was also significant. This became hard to deal with in summer. Eventually I gave up on it and returned to a ~30" monitor.
  • porphyra 2y ago
    FYI nowadays 8K TVs support true RGB 8K 60 Hz over HDMI 2.1 with no chroma subsampling.
• theredsix 2y ago
  You get the partner something shiny too!
• settsu 2y ago
  Buy once, cry once. All else being equal, a TV (i.e., TV-sized) unit generally has a broader set of use cases and longer useful lifecycle than a computer monitor for the original purchaser†, which could be argued makes good economical sense. † in my experience, computer monitors can have a long useful life when factoring in the potentially long tail of "donor/hand-me-down" cases...
  • thfuran 2y ago
    But the other potential uses of a TV assume it's not tossed on a desk in my office.