Hiya guys help me out here. I want to buy an LCD TV that I can use for watching telly, PS3 and also use it as my PC monitor. I'm looking for something like a 26" but most of them say resolution 1366 x 768, so is that the highest I can expect from my PC because i'm assuming that would be very poor and chunky for a screen of that size? Would connecting the PC via HDMI instead of the PC port provided make any difference to what I would get out?

Thanks in advance.

The resolution of the screen is obviously as high as it can display, and personally I've found they work FAR better via VGA than HDMI. You can feed it higher resolution via HDMI, but the set just scales it down to the screen resolution, and usually makes a poorer picture while it does it.

But that screen resolution isn't too bad at all, it's very useable and looks pretty good.

If you want higher res, buy a monitor that does TV, instead of a TV that does computer.

It depends how far you are sitting from the screen when you use it as a PC monitor. I wouldn't fancy sitting 2 feet away from a 26" monitor running 1366 x 768. At normal console distances (4 to 6 feet) it'd be fine.

Very hard to find a monitor with a TV tuner. The only one that I would maybe consider is this: -

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...4591&CatId=958

Strangely enough the menu page mentions a TV tuner yet the main page for the item doesn't. The connections on that will suit my PC and PS3 but I am wondering how I would generate sound for all the devices? I have a pair of PC speakers that will be sufficient but how would the sound for the PS3 be heard through those as the TV doesn't have a headphone socket for the speakers.

I was looking at those Samsung monitors a couple of weeks ago. I saw somewhere that they do 2 versions, one with tuner, one without.
You could connect the PS3 directly to the speakers. If you don't want to keep unplugging the speakers from your PC, get a switch box adaptor that'll allow you to connect to both at the same time.

Thanks for the advice guys. This Samsung escaped me but is absolutely amazing and has everything I need: -

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...314595&CatId=0

I managed to pick this up a bit cheaper elsewhere so at the moment I am very pleased. It's just a case of waiting up to five days for it to arrive, hopefully the next couple rather than the end of the week though, fingers crossed.