I was thinking about buying a LCD unit but couldn't decide on which one. First off I am a gamer with little to no money lol... and I am looking for something under 400 and watching movies. Monitors are cheaper than tvs so I was looking at the Viewsonic vx924 but was not sure if I could hook up my XBox or soon to arrive x box 360 to it. So my question is... what is the difference between a monitor and a tv? And how horrible would it be to buy a monitor for console gaming? And what does HD enabled (as claimed by viewsonic) as oppose to HD ready mean anyway?
Thanks in advance for your help
Derek
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the difference is in how the unit is advertised. a monitor does not have a channel tuner, so it cannot be called a tv. if you are already using a cable/sat provider, you can save some $$ if the lcd tv your considering has a "monitor" version."hd ready" means the unit has enough resolution to display an hd signal."hd capable/enable" is a enhanced tv (edtv) unit. they will take a hd signal and display it at its native (lower) resolution.
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