HAY GUYS

Solis · Local time: Dec 29, 2007, 08:06 AM

Can I use the LCD monitor for my PC as an HD monitor for my PS3? The monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024, so I imagine it should be able to handle 720p from the PS3. It is a 4:3 aspect ratio screen, so I assume I'll get a letterbox display with black borders.

As long as you have an DVI port, you can use a HDMI-DVI cable to connect the PS3 directly to it (and then get audio through the standard AV cable or an optical audio cable). Pretty sure games will be letterboxed, but otherwise it will work the same as if you're hooking it up to an HDTV.

Although I hear there used to be a requirement of having HDCP on your monitor for that to work, but supposedly it was removed in later firmwares so you can hook it up to any monitor. But I haven't had experience with this myself so I'm just going by what I've heard others say.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Solis · Local time: Dec 29, 2007, 07:54 PM

Basically, yes. LCD screens are pretty resiliant to issues like that, they don't have real burn-in like CRTs and Plasmas and they don't have the colorwheel or bulb burnout problems of DLP. They also use a lot less energy and produce less heat than almost all of the alternatives.

Downsides are mainly ghosting with lower quality/higher refresh rate sets and being locked to a single native resolution (so they have to scale everything to the standard resolution instead of being able to change their resolution like CRTs, so some things may appear blurrier on them). Also there's occasionally dead pixels, but that's usually pretty minor.

There's nowhere I can't reach.