I'm looking at a monitor/TV for use in the bedroom. Mostly, it'll be driven either from a laptop (1440, 165HZ) or gaming PC (not sure yet). Perhaps even a MiniPC.
Usage will be watching streamed video (mostly from my own media server), some TV (probably from an nVidia Shield Pro, and of course, some computing from said laptop, etc. A subscription streaming service (Amazon, Netflix, etc? Yeah, maybe, probably for a month or two from this service, then a bit from that, but most of the year, probaby none of those, but my own server only.
Viewing distance from sitting in bed, around 4 feet, i.e. RIGHT at the end of the bed.
My initial thought was OLED TV, but the more I think about it, I'm leaning towards a good monitor. I'm a bit uncomfortable at the thought of the computing bit on a TV, and as I didn't actually need (and probably wouldn't use) any built-in tuners, etc, well ... a monitor seems a better choice. Better choice of resolution, faster refresh, less laggy, probably better colour accuracy etc.
Price, howver? Not so great. Which brings me to budget. I am prepared to go to a reasonably steep price, but not go silly. Which to me, means :-
- up to £1000, no problem
- £100 to £1300-ish, yeah, if necessary to get it right.
- £1300 to £1500, it's possible given a really, REALLY good reason,
- above £1500? I won't 100% rule it out but it needs to be extraordinaly good reason.
Oh, and my sight isn't great these days, which is why I'm willing to spend even those sums to get someting .... comfortable.
Ambient light will be mostly low, not strong sunlight. I'll have some gentle lighting going on, as a screen in a pitch black room is a recipe for a bad headache for me.
Finally, that media library will be serving DVD to 1440 content the vast bulk of the time. Very, VERY rarely, maybe 4k/Bluray, but so rarely it's not a consideration here. A 4k screen is probably wasted for this purpose.
If anyone with more experience than me in this (not a high bar to reach), thoughts and/or suggestions appreciated.
TIA.
Oh, nearly forgot .... from what I can find online, at 4 feet viewing distance, probably about 40"-ish is about right. I don't really want much bigger than that. Current thought is 42" Asus PG42UQ, which I gather from Monitors Unboxed is the same panel as an LG C2 TV, but configured as a monitor, not a TV, hence my thinking about that as an issue.