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I just checked the pricing on OLED monitors, do they go on sale?
It doesn't have to be a monitor. The computer doesn't care what the other end of the cable calls itself.
Sometimes occasionally but they're probably never going to be cheap. Too hard/expensive to manufacture which is why folks like Samsung keep trying really hard with quantum dot LED panels.
That being said, I regret nothing about purchasing my LG C9 OLED TV a couple years ago. Works fantastic, looks fantastic and I pretty much never use the built in UI for anything by going to a Nvidia Shield for my content/streaming needs. I think the LG C series does an excellent job and it occasionally goes on sale during holidays/Black Friday.
You missed the point but also accidentally found it. The point you missed, as others have replied, is that a TV and a monitor both work as PC displays.
But the point you accidentally found is that monitors are pretty much TVs without the smart tv bs added in. They are priced like TVs would be if they weren't making money from them in other ways, like getting paid for preinstalled apps and selling harvested data.
I didn't miss that point, I really like LG channels because it introduces me to stuff I wouldn't normally see. I had a dumb TV up until right before the pandemic and I love the smart TV features but you really sign your life away with their cotracts. I put on live cams or videos of nature while I work directly from the TV while working on my computer. I go offline a lot when I'm working on something that needs to be copyrighted yet, so I couldn't screencast it unless I got an old computer or something to do that. I think I have unique circumstances and I'm lazy and cheap, tbh.
Oh I see what you mean. Yes, you can use things like Chromecast to use your PC on your TV, but you can also directly connect your PC to your TV via HDMI or DisplayPort (though the first one is a lot more common on TVs). You can keep it offline in that case.
Some PCs and laptops might lack the HDMI port, but it's pretty common. If you're using a discrete GPU, you most likely have one. And if you don't have one, you can get USB dongles for it.
I've kind of already signed my life away to LG and it's 3rd party people but the next time I need a TV, I'll definitely look at that. I'm saving this on the hopes I won't need it for a few years. Thanks for explaining it.