For the last 60 odd days I have been trying to con my wife to gift me a LCD monitor to replace my aging Samtron 75E CRT monitor.
Today while visiting a retailer my wife and I came across a LCD from Sony that is 19", HD Ready, has a VGA in, HDMI in, speakers, and a receiver to boot. The model is KLV-19T400A/B.
KLV-19T400A : Series T : BRAVIA? LCD TV : Sony India
The pictures looked decent. It has a display resolution of 1680 x 1050 and should be able to display computer graphics quite well. And, I can watch a movie from my PC through it's DVD player without disturbing others. A good GPUs, and sound card with small speakers added on could give me a mini HT for personal use. I have seen Illusion mention and compare a number of GPUs elsewhere. I have to read that thread carefully.
Does this make sense? Or is the price difference between just a monitor and a monitor ready TV too wide? Will I be able to get a 20 or 22" monitor for about the same price? Is my whole thought process wonked?
BTW, someone might say why do this when you have a LCD to which you can connect the PC and see what you want? For one, the PC and HT are in different rooms. Two I spend a lot of time with my PC, and the capability of seeing a movie now and then on the PC with some semblance of surround sound would be more practical. All I need in this system would be for the dialogues to be clear. If I really like a movie, I would be more than willing to replay it on my HT system and view it in full glory of my HT. Let us call this PC based system a preview theater.
Some thoughts will be welcome.
Cheers
Today while visiting a retailer my wife and I came across a LCD from Sony that is 19", HD Ready, has a VGA in, HDMI in, speakers, and a receiver to boot. The model is KLV-19T400A/B.
KLV-19T400A : Series T : BRAVIA? LCD TV : Sony India
The pictures looked decent. It has a display resolution of 1680 x 1050 and should be able to display computer graphics quite well. And, I can watch a movie from my PC through it's DVD player without disturbing others. A good GPUs, and sound card with small speakers added on could give me a mini HT for personal use. I have seen Illusion mention and compare a number of GPUs elsewhere. I have to read that thread carefully.
Does this make sense? Or is the price difference between just a monitor and a monitor ready TV too wide? Will I be able to get a 20 or 22" monitor for about the same price? Is my whole thought process wonked?
BTW, someone might say why do this when you have a LCD to which you can connect the PC and see what you want? For one, the PC and HT are in different rooms. Two I spend a lot of time with my PC, and the capability of seeing a movie now and then on the PC with some semblance of surround sound would be more practical. All I need in this system would be for the dialogues to be clear. If I really like a movie, I would be more than willing to replay it on my HT system and view it in full glory of my HT. Let us call this PC based system a preview theater.
Some thoughts will be welcome.
Cheers