Using a cheap tv as a pc monit1/30/2024 ![]() ![]() I have a big DLP driven exclusively now by HTPC and the downside with it, is the fact it is not instant on and off. Yeah I know there are domre power management capabilities but they are most about powering off, not sleeping and resume is not part of the tool kit. Should be a setting that would properly put HDTVs to sleep when the PC goes to sleep. I would truly like to see this implemented. ![]() The LED was more money.ĭownside of HDTVs in general as computer displays is they don't have PC type power management. I did not try to dial it in for him, but the 42" Panny LED upstair with PC driving it blew the Plasma away for the most part. The screen on the low end Panny looks dirty and the image is grainy somehow. When you start to get a lot of activity on the screen that Panny is pulling nearly 300 watts. My brother also has a recent 50" Panny plasma low end 1080P unit that his wife uses with an XBOX and Connect. maybe 150 watts playing blu-ray and HD audio. Can't beat a little over a 100 watts for receiver, HDTV and HTPC. I have a Denon in between the two and the Denon idles around 35 watts. I am using a 37" Pannly LED as my desktop display and while it gets more use as a PC, than HTPC it too is in the 70 watt category for display and i3 Sandy Bridge wth GT 545 Nvidia. Now I know my older 58" Panny plasma is a near worst case but my brother recently bought a very nice Panny 42" LED and it only uses about 35 watts, combined with his G620 Sandy Bridge it makes a very nice low power HDTV and HTPC combo that he uses on the wall in his office, somewhere about 65 watts total PC and display. I asm astounded by how little power some of these 2011 LEDs use. BTW I have taken to remoting into that HTPC using Remote Desktop with the display off when I am going to spend some significant time configuring or doing other maintenance tasks. I would rather have an LED in its place because I could use it much more casually without concern for any burn in, or the heat it throws off. I have an older Panny 58" that gets occasional use with an HTPC, but for content playback not as a PC monitor per se. I think the real downside beside image retention and burn in for plasma PC monitor use is their high power consumption. If you live in menus and at the desktop and are going to be using the Plasma a significant amount of time as more PC monitor than Home Theater display than get an LED/LCD or use sensible behavior to limit image retention and burn in.The better plasmas are a tremendous value in terms of size, image quality and price. In other words as a TV/Home Theater display I see no reason you would not make the same value choices you would make between plasma and LED/LCD. If you are really going to use a plasma to watch the same normal content you would without the HTPC. I've always wanted to ask this since a few years ago but, been too embarrassed to ask. Again, please dont jump all over me for explaining what I was observing. What is it that I'm supposed to be looking for when comparing the TV picture quality? Maybe the plasma TV shows blacks (and contrast in general) differently in the dark? I saw similar effects a few years ago when shopping for TVs except he differences are much more pronounced with the newer LCD TVs. but I kept being naturally drawn to the samsung TVs. I was trying to look at general TV scenes showing peoples faces and natural scenery, etc. The plasmas offered a faded version of that. The whites were completely white and other solid colors were perfectly rich solid colors. Is that desirable for a videophile? When I looked at the samsung TVs showing the same content, the blacks were deep, deep black seamless with the high gloss grand piano black bezel on the TV. It looks like all the plasmas there had this kind of effect. When I looked at the plasma TVs, when they were supposed to show black in the video, they had this deep dark grey color (sort of what I would see when I pump up the backlight on my first generation LCD TV a bit). I'm just observing and curious about what my eyes see. I swear to god I dont mean anything negative by what I'm about to say so, please dont reply with hash words. it was pretty easy to spot the plasma TVs from a lineup. ![]()
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