Color monitors were expensive in the 80s, so it was common for PC users at the time to use a TV instead.
Hell, even today I use a TV as a monitor (LG C1). They make TVs specifically for gaming now, and they’ve improved quite a bit in the past 5 years to the point where they’re comparable to gaming monitors in terms of input lag, response time, and all the other areas where it matters for games. The only category they fall behind in is bandwidth, due to the limitations of HDMI (and unfortunately no gaming TV supports DisplayPort yet), but even then most people are perfectly happy with 144Hz @ 4K, so it’s not the end of the world.
Nice!! I’ve been using a big-screen tv for my monitor for a long time now myself. I remember starting to search for a tv-to-computer card for the next PC i built when it dawned on me the new motherboard has an HDMI slot. Once i realized i could plug it right into my big-screen tv without any extra modifications or cards/adapters i was stoked. Never looked back since–i have a wireless keyboard and mouse and it’s been great 🙂
This is how my first pc was set up!! Had some funky video card with a cable ‘out’ or something like that.
Color monitors were expensive in the 80s, so it was common for PC users at the time to use a TV instead.
Hell, even today I use a TV as a monitor (LG C1). They make TVs specifically for gaming now, and they’ve improved quite a bit in the past 5 years to the point where they’re comparable to gaming monitors in terms of input lag, response time, and all the other areas where it matters for games. The only category they fall behind in is bandwidth, due to the limitations of HDMI (and unfortunately no gaming TV supports DisplayPort yet), but even then most people are perfectly happy with 144Hz @ 4K, so it’s not the end of the world.
Nice!! I’ve been using a big-screen tv for my monitor for a long time now myself. I remember starting to search for a tv-to-computer card for the next PC i built when it dawned on me the new motherboard has an HDMI slot. Once i realized i could plug it right into my big-screen tv without any extra modifications or cards/adapters i was stoked. Never looked back since–i have a wireless keyboard and mouse and it’s been great 🙂