# Watching Movies Online with an HD Monitor

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**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-movies-online-with-an-hd-monitor/416256 "2007-08-20T15:16:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-movies-online-with-an-hd-monitor/416256/1 "2007-08-20T15:16:15Z")

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I’ve never done it, but I’m a bit tempted to get an HD Monitor for, among other things, watching some movies online via Netflix.

Probably few if any of the movies will be in HD, but I should imagine the picture is much improved.

Do any of you have such a monitor and are the movies lots better? Might you recommend an HD monitor?

Awhile back, HD TVs were known for premature degrading. Is this still the case?

What HDs at…

[http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb\_ss\_gw/102-9699049-2240956?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=HD+Monitors&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go](http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-9699049-2240956?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=HD+Monitors&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go)

might you recommend?

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**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-movies-online-with-an-hd-monitor/416256/2 "2007-08-20T16:36:44Z")

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I haven’t seen a monitor not capable of displaying at least 720p in a long time. I’ve got a 1680x1050 widescreen dell 20" lcd, just shy of 1080p but media player does a good job of resizing.

Anyway, I don’t like watching tv on my pc monitor, it’s not comfortable sitting at my desk, and it’s too small to view from across the room, you won’t be getting the HD experience that way.

What I did is built an HTPC and hooked it up to my HD TV. At 37" it’s not very big, but fits nicely in my living room and its a lot better (and cheaper) than an equally sized PC monitor.

I’d recommend you get an HD TV (LCD or plasma) and hook up your pc to it so you can watch netflix movies, joost, tv tonic, what have you from your living room couch.

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-movies-online-with-an-hd-monitor/416256/3 "2007-08-20T16:39:49Z")

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[QUOTE=Kinthalis]  
I haven’t seen a monitor not capable of displaying at least 720p in a long time. I’ve got a 1680x1050 widescreen dell 20" lcd, just shy of 1080p but media player does a good job of resizing.

Anyway, I don’t like watching tv on my pc monitor, it’s not comfortable sitting at my desk, and it’s too small to view from across the room, you won’t be getting the HD experience that way.

What I did is built an HTPC and hooked it up to my HD TV. At 37" it’s not very big, but fits nicely in my living room and its a lot better (and cheaper) than an equally sized PC monitor.

I’d recommend you get an HD TV (LCD or plasma) and hook up your pc to it so you can watch netflix movies, joost, tv tonic, what have you from your living room couch.  
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Thanks for the input, **Kinthalis**.