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by michaelmrose 2209 days ago
Is it a TV? If so does it work well for small text and are there any negatives vs a monitor?
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There are 43/42.5" monitors that aren't too expensive, but if you want much bigger you will have to go TV, which can work okay as long as they support a reasonable colorspace encoding that enables quick enough color changes between pixels. Unless the TV supports RGB, you'll want to make sure it supports YUV/chroma 4:4:4.

The refresh rate might be slower, so of you get annoyed by a 30Hz refresh rate, you'll want to make sure the TV does 60Hz.

Nowadays I'm guessing anything but the cheapest models can do it for any given resolution, but some diligence is probably in order as TV specs are not as uniform and reliable as monitor specs.