What is the difference between a big television and a big monitor

Question

As title says why cant i just buy a big television and also use that as a monitor, what is the difference

In: Technology

Answer 1

There’s definitely tradeoffs, as others have covered. I use a Samsung 32″ M80D as my primary monitor for TV/Gaming/Work. It does a good enough job for all use cases, including casual gaming. I’m old and won’t notice a couple of milliseconds in lag.

Edit: Mine doesn’t have a tuner built-in. I could get an OTA box, but just don’t care.