New TV or Monitor w/ TV Tuner?

I was thinking of buying a new TV for my room. I already found some pretty good ones, but yesterday my dad recommended me to buy a monitor with a TV tuner instead, since you can get one with a higher resolution, for a lower price.

What would you recommend?

Also, I already have a full HD monitor for my computer, so I won't use that one as a monitor for my PC since I already have a good one I will just use it for TV use.

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Well, I recently bought a refurbed 26" Samsung HD monitor with a built-in TV tuner, and for someone who doesn't already have TV, that's what I was looking for, so I gained an added 'feature.' Id say go for the monitor with built-in TV tuner. Your advantage would be to allow yourself dual-screens one day, or whenever you wanted to set it up that way. Simply re-arrange them if you'd like the TV by itself. Plus also, you could always give your friends a monitor to hook up to if they were to bring their computer or laptop over.

Eventually, I suspect, all TVs in the future will double as monitors. You'll be out of that functionality when that day comes if you get just the TV I suppose.

What size are you looking for?

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Riven said:
Well, I recently bought a refurbed 26" Samsung HD monitor with a built-in TV tuner, and for someone who doesn't already have TV, that's what I was looking for, so I gained an added 'feature.' Id say go for the monitor with built-in TV tuner. Your advantage would be to allow yourself dual-screens one day, or whenever you wanted to set it up that way. Simply re-arrange them if you'd like the TV by itself. Plus also, you could always give your friends a monitor to hook up to if they were to bring their computer or laptop over.

Eventually, I suspect, all TVs in the future will double as monitors. You'll be out of that functionality when that day comes if you get just the TV I suppose.

What size are you looking for?

Thanks, I thought a monitor might have some disadvantages, but that doesn't seem to be true then.

The size I am looking for isn't really important for this matter, but if you'd still like to know it, it's around 22 - 26 inch or maybe even a bit bigger. But I've already made a lists of TV's I'm interested in.

Oh, btw I've commented on your blog

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Actually, getting an LCD TV (hopefully LED lit) would work really well as a monitor also. You just don't want to use VGA, you want to use a DVI to HDMI cable. (HD CRT and Plasma don't display computer sized text very well. LCD has no issue)

For the size, in general, getting the TV is cheaper. High resolution monitors at TV sizes are very expensive, not to mention one that has a TV tuner built in (Also, not sure if the built in upscaling would be very good). For instance, here, I could go out and buy a Samsung 30" LCD TV to use just as a monitor it'd run me about $350 USD. A large format display monitor around the same size, starts at $500 USD, and isn't even capable of 1920x1080.

So, the real question is do you demand that your desktop and games run higher than 1920x1080 resolution? If not, get the TV and get a larger one for the same price.

Personally, I wouldn't consider it, unless I could afford a 30" (76cm) monitor that could come very close to maximizing the video card's resolution limits. (to note, here, this kind of monitor starts in the $1000 range ... I'd prefer to go buy a new LED LCD TV that's 50")

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