full hd vs lcd

[Moa]

The difference between 'LED' (aka LED/LCD) and 'LCD' is the backlight.

 

An 'LCD' display has an LCD for 'selecting the color' of each pixel and a fluorescent light for the backlight (providing the illumination). The disadvantage of fluorecent lights is that their color changes over time and they have poor reliability as time goes on.

 

An 'LED' LED/LCD has the same LCD front panel for 'selecting the color' of each pixel and an LED (light emitting diode) light source for the backlight. The LED does not change color over time (due to the quantum nature of LED emission) and has excellent reliability. The LED is (very!) much cheaper to manufacture than a fluoro tube, but since the LED is superior you pay a premium for it (just another way the World/Humanity is broken).

 

There are several advantages to using a 1080p 'Full Hi-def' HDTV over a monitor:

 

* 'economy of scale' advantage: so many TVs are being produced that their individual cost has come way down. Monitors are made in much smaller numbers, so don't benefit as much from this.

 

* 'good enough' advantage. While monitors can have higher pixels counts they are very expensive. The TV is good enough, and the field-of-view is better than a monitor so you feel more immersed, even if the pixels aren't down to the limit of your retina.

 

* 'fill rate' advantage. As resolution increases the 'fill rate' of the GPU/GPU memory and connections (HDMI cable) must be able to sustain the increased pixel transfer rate. At some point a lot of the GPU memory bandwidth is simply pushing pixels out to the display with little left for transferring pixels while doing operations like Anti-Aliasing (removing jagded pixels edges) and Anisotropic filtering (improving the look of textures under distance/perspective). If you find 1080p good enough then rather getting a higher-res display to that requires the GPU to push more pixels you instead are asking the GPU to do more operations to improve image quality. Fill-rate is more complicated than that, but this is an approximate description. So a 1080p HDTV has advantages of being 'lower resolution' than the ultra high res (but expensive and small) monitors.

[Succellus]

There s others minor diferences between LED X LCD.... energy consunption is one of them, aside from that what MOA said.

Aside from that i would say the war beetween a monitor and a Tv is lost to the monitor in the future, they always will lead, but diference will become irrelevent.

In my country for exemple a 27" LED monitor 1920X1080, 2ms, is 816 USD (asus vk278q)

A 37" led TV 1920X1080 dito full hd ,2.4ms, is 1071 USD (LG - 37le5300)

 

Monitor will be sharper yes, more contrast yes....will i notice it....probably not.

So in the end its a question of $ and space. You can t stand as near a monitor in a so big screen and it near more space to be set.

Its like video board...anything beyond 60fps ain t perceived by the eye... so why do you need 120 ?

Its just marketing...

Edited August 1, 2011 by Succellus

[Invader ZIM]

I'm looking for a different solution, but it's related to running A-10C from the video cards HDMI port to dual TVHD OLED displays in a head mounted package.

 

I'm sitting on the fence right now until this thing comes out in a store for me to try out, but having a full 3D 150" screen simulated from 12 feet away HDTV that's 3D capable and can be used with a head tracker might be the simulation experience I've been waiting for. I just hope DCS A-10C and my hardware will work together to run it.

 

Below is the Sony HDTV system I'm referring to. A review I found of it:

 

http://www.thetechgame.com/News/sid=2244/sony-personal-hd-3d-viewer-video-preview.html

 

Anyone know if this thing might work for flight simulators like DCS A-10C?

 

It had two separate 720p OLED displays, and I don't know how that will work with the single HDMI cable, unless the control box they describe does some of the conversion.

Edited September 25, 2011 by Invader ZIM

[Advicepuppy]

hi is anyone flying on a full HD tv. 1080i-1080p. If so how does it compare to a monitor TFT or a LCD. at high resolutions..is it worth buying a full hd TV.:smilewink:

 

Yup, 42 inch lcdtv.

 

Epic as hell

[LAB]

i use a 42 inch lcd 100hz.... nice and much better than my old 22"