HDTV Used as a Computer Monitor?

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I tried it years ago and it works, but my TV was too big to fit in front of my laptop when sitting at my "work station", the kitchen bar.

A $2.00 USD HDMI cable is all it takes.

Your HDTV will have a receptacle and if you PC is less than 5 (Probably) years old, you're good to go.

I've used a HDMI cable many times to view something on my laptop on any TV with a HDMI input (computer HDMI Out to TV HDMI IN)

I hope you can use the TV as a monitor otherwise there is a mirage in front of me.

I have used HDMI TV inputs with computers many times. It has always "worked", but there have been several times when I was not happy.

In the old days of analog TVs it was common to do what I think was called "overscan". Basically the TV would start painting lines left of the left edge of the screen and finish painting lines right of the right edge of the screen. Broadcasters knew to keep anything interesting inside the "safe zone" and everyone was happy. The overscan got away from the problems of having edges line up and people were often happy with what seemed like a bigger picture (seemed closer).

All this old analog stuff should not matter with digital signals. But, I have used several TVs where parts of the image were off the left and right sides of the screen. This is especially bad when using command lines like often done with low end Linux machines.

I have been told that this is "digital overscan" and is far less common in more modern HDMI TVs. I don't recall if I did any research to confirm this. I don't see any need for it but it seems to be there (sometimes).

I have one TV that does this "digital overscan" on one of the HDMI inputs but not on the other.

To make things even more confusing I have a small Linux Raspberry Pi and a small Linux Beagle Bone Black. On one TV they both work well. On another TV one does the "digital overscan" (missing first 6 characters of command line) and the other doesn't. I assume that there are different versions of HDMI and my two little Linux boards talk different flavors of HDMI.

I have seen TVs where one HDMI input would do this but the other HDMI input doesn't.

Bottom line, even if you experience this a "window" can be resized and you should be ok. You might not ever need the command line but if, by chance, you miss the first few characters of the command line then welcome to the club.

Mine seemed to work flawlessly.

The only time I'll use it is if the boys want to watch some of their football games that I have downloaded onto my laptop from my camera.

It should be technically possible. I've been sending DVI/HDMI signal to my living room tv for years to watch movies or Netflix, but you're limited to the tv's resolution.

I appreciate more monitor acreage and use two monitors at my desk. I don't see any point in going above twenty inches or so if the monitor doesn't have any better resolution than 1080. If your tv is only 720, you'll have an even worse image and have to move your head back and forth to see it. This may be helpful for people with severe vision problems.

If you are really serious about more image for Autocad use, there are super wide screen monitors with greater resolution, but that 32 inch tv will probably just give you eye (and neck)strain.

Thank you all for the info. I was pretty sure it could be done.