Two Tv's as monitors

[ZeroZero]

Hi, I have been posting about using TV's as monitors I thought people might be interested in the final result...






Ist pic 2 19" monitors (and a third adjacent)

2nd pic 2 39" inch TVs used as monitors.

Setting up the Tvs as monitors went fairly smoothly. One weird thing is that now if I play two or more movies at once (through my focusrite liquid 56, rather that the TV onboard sounds) Only one movie has sound. Before, I could load more than one movie and get sound from all of them. This is a puzzle to me as I thought the whole sound thing would have nothing to do with the TVs once Windows is set up for the Focusrite.
The cables are DVI- HDMI (£3 on Ebay or £60 - £100 at the store). One graphics card.

You might wonder why you would want more than one movie to give sound at the same time, but its something I have got used ot and is useful (did you ever see The Man who fell to Earth - that's me) Once the brain is wired right its perfectly possible to do. I often watch the news whilst running tunes too.

Another thing I found is that the TVs will not recognise windows unless switch on before the PC. Also the remotes both control both TVs.

Both monitors are set to 1920/1080 (Hi Def). Viewing them from about a metre away, is not a problem.

The TVs are L39FE12's LEDs by Logik (PC world own brand) and were £299 each. Its possible to get 42" LCD TVs for £250 in UK at present too. I chose LED as the consume less power and are a little less bulky.

Overall I am delighted!



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[Steve Fogal]

Nice! I've often considered using LED TV's for monitors because large TV's are much cheaper than computer monitors, though I wouldn't need to use the audio on the TV.

I've even hooked up my Samsung Infuse smart phone to my 55" Samsung LED TV ...amazing to see all my smart phones functions on such a huge screen.

[knuckle47]

My son uses TV's. Not anything in audio, he uses this for games ( something I have never done even with my original VIC 20 and Commodore 64). He has a rather complex set of video cards and 3 30" LED Tv's and a 46" overhead tv. Looks amazing, remarkably bright ,colorful and contrasted. He routes audio through a Sony 7.1 receiver. Stuff he showed me on YouTube was amazing. my 20" dell monitors have a satin surface to the monitors and his LED sets have a glossy screen and it is a very nice way to go. The sharpness is terrific. If I had a way to justify the costs, I would do it in a second.