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I can't see how anyone would use a >40" LCD TV as a computer monitor because of its low resolution.


The size is nice to be able to sit at a distance, say, reclined on a nice sofa with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to work on. I don't do anything serious on my HDTV with the computer, but I do play many games on it. Sure, I could sit with my nose to my 20 inch widescreen LCD in the office to game, but it's just not the same. Nice confy sofa, or an office chair?

Plus for multiplayer games (more prominant on consoles, but they do exist for the PC), a large screen like an HDTV is very nice.

Besides, most operating systems scale resolutions horribly anyhow. I'd much rather have a lower resolution on a 60 inch TV so I can read it at a distance then be forced to deal with the not so great DPI scaling in both Windows and OS X.