Kuros said:
Karen and I have our 40in Samsung hooked up at 1920×1080 to the media center pc and it looks pretty frakking amazing actually. I can read text and even surf the internet from the couch which is about 7-8 ft away. At 1080p resolution (native to the TV, hello?) the pixels are exactly the right size. I’m using a dvi-hdmi converter. While I agree that it’s overkill and I don’t use it for gaming or word processing, it’s only because it won’t fit on my desk. I’ve thought about dragging my pc over to the tv several times (Karen will kill because of the mess). The only problem that I could see Major having is his graphics card not being able to push 1080p at any kind of decent frame rate in games. That is a metric *edited*ton of pixels to push for a midrange graphics card. Hell, that’s a metric *edited*ton of pixels to push for a high end graphics card…
This is true and while your card should be able to run everything at high settings at 1680×1050 (standard res for a 20-22″ monitor) it might struggle at 1080p.
I guess it comes down to what you have room to do.
Also nice to see you again Kuros.