monitor or TV

[FUZZYBEE]

We were thinking of buying our daughter a tv/dvd combi ,however her computer monitor is a bit old too and a friend of mine suggested that an LCD monitor could be used to watch dvd's / play the playstation and computer. Is that right ?

[Ethel]

Yes, but it won't have a tv tuner and I do find watching dvds on the pc very unsatisfactory.

[s10driver]

Some LCD TVs have a VGA input so they can double as computer monitors.

[rojash]

Like Ethel, I don't much enjoy watching DVDs on the PC - or did you mean to take an output from the DVD player to the monitor? I don't think this is possible, because there is no synch generator in a DVD player. I bought a cable from Maplin that was supposed to provide the sync.. but having tried it on a number of monitors, I've completely failed to get it to work.

As s10driver says, many LCD TVs have monitor inputs so you might consider that route.

I really would not recommend a TV/DVD combination of any description - think about the average life of a DVD player, and you will realise that it won't be long before you have a TV with a permanently attached piece of junk!