Philips has made VGA televisions capable of 31, 35 and/or 38 kHz. Now what sort of computer performance does that buy you?
• 31 kHz: 640×480 NI @ 60 Hz • 35 kHz: 800×600 NI @ 56 Hz • 38 kHz: 800×600 NI @ 60 Hz In other words: nothing to write home about compared to today’s computer monitors. My 17A goes up to 95 kHz. TVs are good enough to be used as presentation displays – to be watched from a distance. They will also make excellent game displays. But you don’t want to use them for word processing. Just because it is sold as an HDTV display does not mean that the sharpness will be that much better. Certainly not as good as that of a computer monitor. HDTV monitors will never have only composite inputs, because composite=CVBS is used only for PAL/Secam/NTSC. Most likely it will have YPbPr inputs (Y,B-Y,R-Y), which is inconvenient with a computer that delivers only RGB. If you are lucky it will have a VGA input or a Golden Scart (a Thomson standard for RGB HDTV signals). Hold on to your 17″ computer monitor…
