HDTV as Computer Monitor Questions

I never use LCD TV before but I would assume it’s capable of higher res than what you mention. As far as I know 1024 X 768 is native resolution for 17” – 19” LCD PC monitor. 1600 X 1200 would be 21” – 23”, etc. I think your LG LCD is wide screen and can handle high res.

As for the second question widescreen is meant for viewing movies and if use for office application it would be too wide and you’ll have extra white space on the right hand side of your monitor. That’s why wide PC LCD monitor has horizontal and vertical adjustment so you can also view portrait style. But I'm not sure if your 32” LCD can do that.

As far as dead pixel, it sounds like you got a factory defect. Unfortunately a Class A digital ISO rating if you find any would be very expensive. So Class B is what mostly displays at Best Buy and other electronics store.

I’m not sure if you’re familiar of ISO rating, I’m not an expert either but Class A is the best. 32” LCD monitor for PC may sell for $3000 USD. A regular HDTV 32” LCD would sell for $1200 to $1600 USD.

Sony, LaCie, Viewsonic, Samsung, and BenQ, NEC, LG are good PC LCD monitors. So I would assume they do too on their TV lines. If I have to recommend a product it would be Sony or Viewsonic due to their warranty. So be sure to check the manufacturers warranty on dead pixels since it varies from their model line. Also check THG, I think they have reviews on ISO rating.

I would suggest using DVI cord instead of DVI to HDMI core and just use the pc speakers. That will free up the HDMI input for future use. Like Play Station 3 which would be the cheapest High definition player when it comes out this winter.

By the way try to set your display settings to 60Hz if it works otherwise 30Hz. One more thing I have bad luck using nVidea card when I use 20 feet of DVI cord. Picture was a little fuzzy. When use my radeon card it works ok. Unfortunately I didn’t check if it’ll work on 15 feet since 20 is what I need.

Hope this help a little. Good Luck.

I have a 32" LG and run 1360x768. Once I plugged the LCD into my 7800gt video card using a VGA cable, I could choose 1360x768 in the display properties. When I did that I could tell the image was being rescaled on the TV. Even though it says to use 1024x768 in the manual, there are settings on the TV to change the resolution to 1366x768. It took me a while to figure that out. It's the ADJUST button under the slide-down part of the remote. I don't know why you have to change the resolution on the TV itself, seems strange to me, but once I did the image was much higher quality.

One thing I noticed however is that you can't select the native LCD resolution of 1366x768 in windows display properties, only 1360x768. It has something to do with the nvidia drivers only allowing resolutions in multiples of 8. I heard you can force it to 1366x768 using powerstrip but haven't tried it yet.

The major problem I have is the noticable latency using my mouse, which makes gaming impossible. This is supposedly a problem with most HDTV's though, and LG is supposed to have the least latency in this respect according to this article http://hdtvlag.googlepages.com/

Wow, how did you do that?

I have LG 32LC2D and a PC with the GeForce 6100 video card. I have tryed RGB, Component, DVI/HDMI connections with no luck at all.
Could you please describe what exactly you have done, what resolution have you chosen for you PC and settings on TV?

Thank you