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Originally Posted by tommy banana
Hi
I am designing a new project studio that will be atached to my house and be an occasional control room and a regular place to compose, mix and master ( and practice the drums......).
It will be about 12ft deep and I was considering getting a big plasma screen so that I could sit away from the display and the speakers, have bluetooth computer keyboard and mouse, and a mixer and midi controller keyboard at my seating position.
THis is rather than having a big desk along one wall with a mixer on it with nearfields perched on the meter bridge and having to sit there all crammed up - or having the desk in the middle of the room and making it unusable for anything else.
This would mean the family could use the room as a kind of home cinema too when I am not working.....
I wondered if anyone had used a LCD TV screen (eg 1368x 768 32") for use as a computer monitor for work in a DAW when you are sitting 6 to 10ft from the screen?
Any views feedback appreciated on the wisdon (or lack of this idea...)
NB considering PMC speakers and a sub
Tommy Banana
It can work great. Just consider the acoustics totally first. Locate the screen way out of the field of the speakers. BTW, NOT EVERY LCD screen will take in all the computer resolutions. Many of the 16:9 screens are only able to accept HD resolutions (like 720p or 1080i), and if you try to feed it 1360x768 or 1368x768 they won't take it, OR worse, they will scale it to an HD resolution and you'll get somewhat grainy graphics or unsharp text. Your best bet is to take a laptop to Best Buy and plug directly into a monitor you are considering. Go to the AVS forum
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/index.php? which uses the same BB software as Gearslutz, and also do a Google Search for "1366x768" to find an important thread on that resolution. You may need a custom video driver (PowerStrip on the PC, SwitchResX on the Mac) to run 1360 x 768 into some of the LCD or Plasma monitors currently out there.
I've been trying to get information from Samsung about whether the 46" LCD model I am interested in really can accept its native 1366x788 (actually use 1360, see the thread on AVS) pixel resolution without scaling. I was not able to get that in tests at Best Buy. You should have seen the Best Buy salesmen standing over my shoulder. They were very interested!