Haven't taken the HDTV plunge yet, but am thinking about picking up the Philips 5990. Since I have a reasonably nice computer monitor (HP w2408h) that has an HDMI port and runs at 1920x1200 natively, I was wondering if I hook up a DVD player such as the Philips 5990 to an HDMI port on a computer monitor, will it actually work or will the DVD player only work on TV's?
If it does work, anyone know what limitations this set up may have?
Thanks,
Kibble
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The descript at Amazon.com says you can do exactly that:
http://www.amazon.com/W2408H-24-inch-Widescreen-LCD-Monitor/dp/B0013AHADQ
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Originally Posted by Kibble
Another issue will be getting a monitor brightness/contrast setting that gets a good HDMI black and good computer monitor quality from DVI-D at the same time. Ideally the monitor has independent settings per input but most don't.
Don't expect the scaler-deinterlacer quality to match a good LCD-TV. Best to output progressive from the HDMI source.
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Interesting you bring this up. I actually did this a week ago. I used my new 24" sceptre LCD monitor as a live preview screen from my Canon HV20. Looked great but it does 1920x1200 and offers full 1080P support as well.
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My eyes dislike 16:10 tall people so I use my Samsung computer monitors for HDMI only when nothing else is available. It is possible to do a custom compressed V-Size stored monitor setting to get closer to square pixels.
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Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Since I need a new player for the main tv anyways, I'll pick one up tonight and let you know how it turns out. If it works well, I guess I'll be getting two.
Kibble
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