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Plasma as a computer screen.

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10/19/09 at 6:06am
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Hello everyone.

 

My name is David and this is the first time I write in this forum but I have read it before many times.

 

I just bought a 37" LCD TV (37LG2100) to use to watch movies and also as a computer screen, but I found I can't read the text properly from the distance I'm viewing it from (3 meters), that's with the 1360x768 native resolution and adjusting Windows Vista to scale the fonts to 150% (I can't scale bigger so there would't be any space left in the desktop).

 

From 2.4 meters I can read it perfectly clear.

 

So I have the chance to change it for a 42" plasma screen, also from LG, for the same price.

 

My concern is that the native resolution of the plasma screen is 1024x768 what is a 4:3 screen resolution I believe, so I would see black stripes on both sides, wouldn't I? Is is that critical in the plasmas to keep the native resolution as it is on the LCD's?

 

Also, will the text be as clear in the plasma as it is in the LCD?

 

Thank you very much in advance.

 

David.

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10/19/09 at 1:42pm
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The bigger concern with plasma would be image retention.  If you do decide to go the plasma route, you'll definitely want to do a break-in on it for about 100-120 hours before you begin to use it as a monitor.  Even after that, I would be very careful with with this as a monitor . . . I would plan to run an anti-image retention screensaver daily.

If you want to use this from 3 meters as a computer monitor, you might consider a 1080 screen that would use a computer resolution of 1920x1080.
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10/20/09 at 12:37pm
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My wife and I do a lot of gaming and use a Panasonic 42" 1080i plasma and it is easily visible from 3 meters, although we sit 2.5 from it.  Burn in has been an issue though, but we leave static images on it pretty often.  The burned in image is faint and not noticeable unless the screen is black but it would be an issue if this was anything other than a computer monitor. 
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10/21/09 at 2:52pm
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hi

remember that a 1080i plasma is really a "some other type of resolution" that accepts a 1080i signal.

To get your maximal sharpness / resolution you will want your PC video output to match the native resolution of the panel.
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