Televisions that could be used as a monitor. Any ones you prefer for the price over 40 inches?
ASKED BY · Rajan Chandil · LOS ANGELES · 24 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:48:07
Look for 4K monitors in 43 or 47-inch sizes with IPS panels for wide viewing angles; avoid smart TVs that phone home for ads; avoid OLEDs due to burn-in risk with static interfaces; computer monitors with HDMI are cost-effective alternatives.
Be cautious with mismatched TVs lacking consistent inputs; recommend Dell quad-split monitors for reliability; for heavy-use productions, consider OC commercial monitors in cases or large monitors for downstage presenter monitors though they wear out quickly.
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48:06be used as a monitor. Any ones you prefer for the price over 40 inches. Corny, what do you think? Well, call me Rajan. I have a couple of 47-inch Noxa monitors that are 4K. So this is what you want to look for is a 4K monitor in something like a 47-inch, so smaller so that you can use it, you know, so it's not going to take up the
48:34the whole room probably, 43 or 47 inch. Those are two sizes you can find. Be careful of the ones that are connected to the internet. Like the LG's TVs are now phoning home. If you do get one like that or the, you know, the ones that were Vizio that was bought by Walmart, they're phoning home or Target. Was it Target or Walmart? One of them bought up Vizio and it phones home all the time
49:02to serve you advertising. So you want to make sure that the monitor is not connected to the internet unless you want to airplay to it or do something like that. But I find the 4K panels that are in a lot of those work quite well as a monitor because they have a pretty wide color gamut and they usually have very good off-axis, they're usually IPS panels, and they have good off-axis
49:31viewing for wide, have wide sweet spots so that you're not looking at color shifting as you get off axis. I'd stay away from OLEDs because they're going to burn in if you have anything permanently on the screen like a computer interface, it's going to burn into those pixels. But you can get reasonably priced monitors, just don't connect them to the internet. They give
49:52for computer monitors with an HDMI input, they work pretty good. However, you may have to deal with hdcp but usually in a monitor you don't have to deal with that at all unless there's some type of recording function in that monitor all right and guy yeah be careful of what you get because our house of worship bought a mishmash of a bunch of tvs and it has been an absolute
50:18nightmare for how they uh ask for the input so they go searching for whatever and i feel so bad for these teachers that come in and they plug in their iPad and the next thing you know, they are on some weird screen and they can't get the input. And then I get singled out and I have to go walk all the way up and go try to fix it. And it happens all the time. It's unfortunate.
50:38I like these Dells particularly because they don't have that. They don't have that whole boot up process, but these are also the quad splits. So you can put four things inside of them. They are pricier. So it depends on if they're going to get beat up and left on because we do have have some at Tenacious. I can't say what we call them because it's kind of vulgar. But when you
51:00need these big, bigger, we call them DSMs for the downstage monitors, but sometimes a presenter will want a bigger monitor that will put kind of in their eyeline way down. So it has to be big. So it has to be like a 50 or 70 inch and they get beat up. I mean, they just don't last because because sometimes they get scratched in shipping.
51:22And we try to put them back in the, well, the 70-inchers, we have one big, huge rolling case, but sometimes they just get bought for specific gigs, and then they get scratched, and then they just get given away or whatever. So be aware that in production, either you buy the big case and you deal with all the shipping and all of that stuff
51:37and try to make it last. But a lot of these production-type monitors just get heavy use. And if they're not commercial monitors like the OCs, I mean, that's the other thing is, could you get away with a Megamon? So the OC line has them built into cases already. So those are pretty sweet. I suggest if you can, look at the OC Megamons if you're just trying to do like Video Village.
51:59I mean, what are you trying to do with it and where is it going to transport to? Are you going to throw it in the back of an SUV or are you going to put it in a truck truck with a bunch of other anvil cases and whatnot? Because that's where people loading at three in the morning, sometimes they just want to get out of there.