Why are televisions never as clear as computer monitors?

Why can't TVs ever have the clarity of computer monitors?Why are televisions never as clear as computer monitors?
The image on my 52-inch television looks just as clear as a computer monitor. Check it out: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f347/a鈥?/a>





It's connected to my computer using a DVI-to-HDMI cable, running 1920x1080 resolution. The image is so razor-sharp that even in that tiny photo the text on the screen is almost legible.





Maybe you just haven't seen a good TV used as a monitor. Mine is a Sony Bravia, and the proof is in the photo-- It works beautifully as a monitor.Why are televisions never as clear as computer monitors?
Generally because the signals are compressed with lossy compression. Garbage in - Garbage out.








Also the pixels per inch tend to be less for TVs than a computer monitor. 1920 by 1080 for example is about the 30'; screen size on TVs but about the 20'; screen size on monitors. But you tend to sit much further away from a TV - so that is O.K.
maybe bc computer monitors have a video card that actually has computing behind them, mean while a tv is more of a computer that sucks with a projector....





does taht make sense? everything is a computer, cell phone, calculater, watches... so yea... its just a better tv rlly...





i never thought of this tho, thanks =) i like pondering things like this
Because they are so much larger but still use the same resolution. It's like a picture. When you make a small picture really big, it gets blurry. It's the same concept. HD TV however, is amazingly clear. I speak from experience. I have HD and regular TV. It's a whole new world.
A standard TV resolution is 768x576 (PAL) or 720 x 480 (NTSC). That is how the picture is transmitted so that is how the TV screen resolution is set.





An HD1080 TV resolution is 1920 x 1080.





Computer monitors are 1024 x 768 or higher
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