Two weeks ago I bought myself a PS3, but not just any PS3, I got me the Special Edition Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3. What does that mean? Different color, smaller hard drive and more money…basically. At least PS3’s have a user upgradeable hard drive, so I’ll probably bump it up to 160gb. Behold …

It’s really a great system, and it could do so much. That’s where my problem is. I don’t have the stuff to take full advantage of it. By stuff I mean a display. PS3 if you don’t already know is a full fledged Blu-Ray/Game system. Blu-Ray is the next step of DVD. While DVD had the resolution of 720X480 pixels, Blu-Ray can display 1920X1080 pixels. That’s a huge leap in picture quality.

The TV I am using now is 10 years old and is 27″ standard definition (640X480). While it still looks….ok, it could be a lot better. So now I am on the hunt for a new display.

I have narrowed it down to 2 possibilities. One is a LCD computer monitor and one is a LCD HDTV. You might be thinking that choosing a computer monitor is a strange chose, but allow me to explain. The main differences between a HDTV and a computer monitor is a built in TV tuner. Perhaps HDTV might have some fancy smancy features, but when it all comes down to it, the TV tuner is all thats different.

So why would I choose the LCD monitor over a LCD HDTV? Resolution. Computer monitors typically have a higher resolution than your standard HDTV. Unless your buying a 42″ HDTV the resolution is going to be 1366X768, but a computer monitor can go way higher on smaller screens. Since this is going to be in a smallish room, a screen size of 28″ or 32″ is more than adequate.

The LCD computer monitor I am looking at is a widescreen 16:10 28″ LCD ViewSonic VX2835WM. This bad boy has a resolution of 1920X1200! I get aroused just thinking about that. It comes with 1 HDMI, VGA, S-Video, Composite, and Component connector. Like I said before the only thing missing is a connector for the cable. She sure is a beauty. Click the link above to get more info about this screen.

My second chose is a widescreen 16:9 32″ LCD HDTV by LG. The advantages of this screen is the size, a whole 4 inches, a TV tuner and a lot higher contrast ratio. The bad thing is the resolution size (1366X768). It does have a ton of connectors though: 3 HDMI, 1 RF, 2 Composite Video, 2 HD Component Video, 1 S-Video, Others, and a remote. Plus it costs about $100USD more. Looks good though.

So those are my chooses. I need feedback with this. Does anymore have more knowledge than me about this kind of tech or have a similar experience? I am adding a poll below and if you can just take a few minutes to check it all out and vote, it would mean a lot to me and my wallet.

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