[everyone]

Afaik the difference between whats called a "monitor" and whats called a "TV" nowadays is that..

TV's show a compressed or upscaled image. TV's have much higher latency.

And thats why something called a monitor is so much more expensive for the same size display.

[oynqr]

Having a TV work well as a monitor is usually just a few settings away. It was this way ten years ago.

[gruez]

>TV's show a compressed or upscaled image

TVs can show a "compressed or upscaled image", but that doesn't mean it can't show uncompressed full resolution images (ie. HDMI input). In that regard they aren't that different from monitors.

>TV's have much higher latency.

>And thats why something called a monitor is so much more expensive for the same size display.

This is more due to their firmware containing image processing logic (to improve image quality), than TVs being intrinsically lower quality than computer monitors.

[navjack27]

Pretty much this. My TCL 4K HDR TV I bought two years ago for like 400 bucks has Roku in it and... I just ignore it. I use game mode on it and it's hooked up to my M1 Mac Mini all day long. I use Parsec when I'm lazy and use my desktop PC that way on it. Sometimes I'll Parsec the other way around from my PC to the Mac while it's displaying on the TV and there is absolutely zero latency that is perceivable when watching a video and the sound on in both places.

No ads ever bother me. No camera to scan me. It doesn't do anything. Even when I disabled my AD blocker on my router it didn't go ape.

[baq]

Most TVs nowadays have a 'Game' input setting which disables most latency-impacting post-processing. Always check before buying, though.