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If you are close, monitor.
If you are far, TV.
Is it so fucking hard.

Both, either/either depending on my mood

What if you have both?

What's the difference between monitors and televisions anyway besides their sizes?

Monitors are for low testosterone neckbread nu-males.

TV always.

I'm close and using a TV.

Televisions have 15 seconds of input lag.

Both.

the human mind can't process anything until 15 seconds later

Monitor. Less input lag, higher pixel density.

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I have a plasma TV that shatters any monitor in terms of image quality (black and contrast), the problem is that it is 50 inches and sometimes the games feel very open and it is difficult to concentrate.

Should I sweat the monitor better? I have a LG IPS 24

they actually have 15 minutes of input lag.

So why don't people just buy really big monitors? The price?

Well that's fine because 15 second input lag looks more realistic anyway. Anything faster is too videogamey.

Monitors (can) have lower latency and higher refresh rates.
TVs (can) have better colors (with OLED) and can be bigger.

its all depend on the viewing distance.

50 inch tv at 7 feet its perfect and the image can be as good at a 24 inch monitor at close

Televisions have TV tuners and speakers typically, so you can turn them on with a remote and don't need separate speakers. This makes them more expensive too.

Most good monitors are just a screen and that's it, you need to hook it up to a GPU to do anything.

Refresh rates and resolutions vary, but if a TV and a monitor have the same numbers they give virtually identical performance.

And check my 5.

Go to Amazon and find any 40+ inch monitor and tell me why you wouldn't buy one.

TV's have shit colors & contrast, but HDR is helping get them to good standard

input lag actually isn't a big deal, gaming mode can be pretty low now

Depends on the television.

Monitors are just basic ass display devices.
TVs have better QA and better panels, but some have undefeatable input lag due to internal signal processing.

No monitor has ever been better than the TVs I've attached my PC to (it's attached to both). TVs have better black levels and color reproduction (even when using similar panel types).

Monitors excel in refresh rates but that's about it. Stuff like backlight bleed and clouding is more common and egregious on monitors. That goes back to the lower QA monitors get compared to TVs.

If you're playing any sort of game with crucial timing, usually emulating a retro game, then you'll probably want a monitor due to the better response time. HDTVs have worse response times and lag from scaling the image.

Switch displays based on my mood. It always impresses guests to see stuff like internet browsing and what not on a big screen. It makes using the computer a communal affair.

Actually most monitor have really shit contrast.

TVs tend to have more contrast/rich colours thanks to high brightness

Monitors cant compre, except some really exensive IPS/VA models but you lose refresh rate

Monitor. Everything is centralized and easy to view.

Black levels on expensive OLED's that make ROG Swift look cheap, but TV's can't not into accurate colors/contrast, HDR was created to force manufactures to get to an acceptable standard

You never use a TV in the place of a monitor, it has 0 to do with distance to the panel or anything like that. TV are universally lower resolution and refresh rate, and often time have a fixed aspect ratio, than a monitor, as broadcast signals (Cable or otherwise) are usually fixed across the board. Monitors can have res's the exceed any and all broadcast signals and thus, for gaming, universally superior. Distance to screen is determined by size of the screen. The basic rule is you never want it so big, or so close, that to look at another part of the screen you have to physically move your neck/head.

I have both because laptop+ps4

Playing games on a OLED(like Zelda or Horizon) can be a really game changer in terms of image quality.

Monitors look good, but not THAT good.

i like monitors better because my eyes are fucked and not that great at longer distances, but i got a steam link in the living room and i just wear my glasses when i want to use the TV

the steam link is pretty good, there is a tiny bit of latency oddly in some games more than others

HDR makes quite a difference too

Stick with plasma until dies, best gaming displays ever made.

>but TV's can't not into accurate colors/contrast

What is this crock of shit? The vast majority of TVs have easily been covering 90%+ of the fucking sRGB color space with ease. It's like I said before, monitors undergo much less QA so people often get monitors that are just godawful at black levels and color reproduction and you can't fix it via calibration because that's just the junk panel you got.

HDR was not created for the reason you stated.
Goddamn it Sup Forums, stop making shit up.

You must be blind if you think Zelda looks good even on an OLED

Same

It fuckin sucks

I use both

Nailed it.

Monitors have both deeper black levels (often an order of magnitude greater) even on the same display type. Comparing IPS monitor vs IPS HDTV was eye opening. The former exhibited far more of that IPS glow on largely dark scenes, black was more blue/purplen than on the TV, highlights weren't as bright or well detailed as the TV.

>The vast majority of TVs have easily been covering 90%+ of the fucking sRGB color space with ease

Yeah now because of HDR

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IPS Monitors famously have bad Black levels, this has been an issue for a while

TN's are actually way better in this regard

using both rn from far away. I just zoom in on items on the monitor and use the tv primarily

Input lag is a myth. I've never seen it in my life.

A TV is just a massive monitor with higher quality panel and internals.

Stop peddling nonsense. You're right about TVs. Make sure it fills your FOV, but doesn't require you to turn your head to look at things on-screen. TVs are immersive as fuck. I used to have a triptych setup with my monitors but after switching to the 55" 4K set I'm definitely not going back.

1440p 144hz monitor + 4K HDR TV masterrace

TV for everything except for competitive FPS or RTS games, also for anything that heavily relies on a mouse. My couch TV setup is the most used gaming method in my house since I mostly like singleplayer games and RPGs.

Don't play games like Divinity OS on a TV though.

Projector

Most tvs aren't HDR. sRGB just isn't a difficult color space to cover even for bargain bin sets.

Anyway, to OP:

If you want high refresh rate and shit like Gsync, go with a monitor.

If you want better quality black levels, brightness, color reproduction and details go with a TV.

IPS panels have better black levels than TN panels, they just have a fucked up glow to their black.

TN panels have grey black. That's as far as they go.

VA has the best black levels of the bunch but narrow horizontal viewing angles before colors get washed out.

Now that the industry has acknowledged the mass use of HDTVs as monitors things are a lot easier than it used to be. Using a CRT TV as a monitor was a fucking pain in the ass back in the day.

>color reproduction

YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER
Very few TV's reach +90%, while Monitors reach 99% easy

as a human, i have to agree with this

speaking about tvs
did I do good for not buying into cheap 4k? I'm pretty satisfied with my tv, but I'm just not quite sure about its span of usefulness

Hello 2008-2011. How are you liking Skyrim on a washed out projector?

Most monitors don't reach 99% easily, and their panels do not display color as well as HDTVs. There's a reason why they're dirt cheap. Less QA and lower panel quality.

Yes, wait on 4K. The standards are still not finalized. You'll want to wait for the new HDMI spec to be standardized. That one supports really high resolutions and VRR (variable refresh rates). Basically we're getting intelligent panels in the near future.

Do you play videogames on a swing? Do you sit close or far? It cant be both.

4k is a gimmick. If you've got the money you've got the money, but if it dents the bank I wouldn't buy it, similar to vr