It’s the main purpose of them, yes. Define TV to me. I don’t see the point of paying for decoders, smart TV and bunch of other things I’ll never use, much smarter decision is to buy a monitor which focuses on image quality and performance, far more suitable for consoles, Roku, etc.
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDo you think the only thing TVs are used for is watching traditional terrestrial TV? Lol
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TVs are fantastic monitors.
It sounds reasonable to not want to pay for basically a small computer inside the TV.
But in practice, its not that expensive of a component. And TV volumes are so high that they’re bigger and cheaper and higher quality than an equivalently priced monitor, anyway.
Hence I’m fine with what I have, but I’m never buying a “monitor” again. It just makes no sense when I can get a 40" TV with 120hz VRR instead, that happens to work fantastically as a streaming box too.
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My experience is that they all look terrible up close, for whatever reason
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
I only watch extraterrestrial TV.