4K TCL TV as Monitor

Rob Monsipapa

Tim Ellman, 4:4:4 chroma display is NOT required for a TV to act asa PC, it just has a better rendering of fine text v.s. A tv that only supports 4:4:2. You should have a video that says it supports 4K video. I use the GeForce Nvidia 1050i, does a fantastic job for me.

Ed N5DG

Rob Monsipapa

Ed N5DG

Rob Monsipapa

It’s going to put a smile on your face every Tim you boot it up!!! Keep me posted.

Mark - N4MKA

Rob Monsipapa

Mark, you made a good choice, I have the 49" TCL and the same video card in my Dell, the resolution on the very smallest of text is outstanding...  You'll enjoy it, probably wish you went bigger, unless your space restricted! 

Enjoy
Rob - AK7RM

Robert Lonn

Mark - N4MKA

Thanks, very happy so far. I have (2) 27" monitors and the (1) 43" 4k display. I plan on using the 43" primarily for radio stuff. I won't say I never will want a larger one. Space is not a primary issue. I just hope I don't ever need a big magnifying glass to see it some day:)
 

Mark - N4MKA

I will have to add that to the list.

Muhammad Ashraf Alvi

Sir how can I connect my Pentium 4 with tcl

Tim - W4TME

You will need a more up to date PC running a recent version of WIndows with a graphics card that will work with 4k monitors.

Rob Monsipapa

Alvi, make sure the video card says that it supports 4K video, it should have an HDMI port, which will connect to your 4K TV. TCL has one of the best resolutions for a PC monitor.

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Gary Zeune

I used 4x24" Dell FHD monitors. Why? Because I have spreadsheets with 500,000 rows and 50 columns that spanned 3 24" monitor. A pain to use. So I replaced three with the TCL 50 in series 4 because it had chroma subsampling 4:4:4. Now I can get all 50 columns on top half and 2 or 3 support documents on the bottom half.. Works great but the text was a little fuzzy so I turnef off HDR. Now the text is really sharp. Costco had 43" series 4 on sale for $230 and 50" for $250. So I bought two, one for each house. I tried these series 6 which was almost double the price and it certainly was better for video and movies but made no difference when used as a monitor. Big monitor substantially reduces the amount of time I have to spend on my big spreadsheets. Wish I'd gotten one years ago. DisplayFusion.....If you get a giant monitor spend $35 and get DisplayFusion. It will create custom virtual displays on your giant monitor. It's great when you're doing PowerPoint presentations to have both the PRESENTER view and SHOW on one monitor.