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Hey guys, I was looking to purchase a small TV for college, and i came upon thishttp://www.gamestop.com/accessories/playstation-3d-display/91799. The price seems too low to be true, so does anyone know if there is something wrong with this TV? Any input from people that own it? Thanks!

It's ok. I bought one a few weeks ago. Sometimes it will randomly black screen for a few seconds sometimes when youre in 2d mode. Also, it doesn't have a TV tuner, FYI.MethodManFTW

Thanks! and sorry I am not too great with TVs, does this mean there is no way to watch television on it?

I believe if you have an hd receiver or something like that, you can plug it into your hdmi and watch, but you can't get channels over the air or hook a cable cord up to it or anything like that. It's why they call if a monitor or display instead of a tv.MethodManFTW

Ahh ok, so this would probably be a bad decision for TV at college. Thanks for the help!

samsung have dropped the price of their 3d smart tvs and are a good brand. they will have almost everything you want from a 3dtv. only down side is samsung use active 3d which means expensive glasses and if they break which they will in college its annoying having to replace. LG tvs are also quite cheap lately and they use the passive 3d which from what ive seen looks just as good as active but the glasses for it are very very cheap. also a big plus for LG tvs is a feature called dual play. it allows you to have 2 player splitscreen in fullscreen mode it works brilliantly and makes splitscreen more fun

[QUOTE="MethodManFTW"]I believe if you have an hd receiver or something like that, you can plug it into your hdmi and watch, but you can't get channels over the air or hook a cable cord up to it or anything like that. It's why they call if a monitor or display instead of a tv.Cursednavi

Ahh ok, so this would probably be a bad decision for TV at college. Thanks for the help!

Not necessarily. It depends on what you are doing. Even though it doesn't have a tuner built in, you can get a external cable box pretty easily. Hell in order to have HD cable you practically NEED a cable box nowadays. I have a HDTV, but I never use the tuner on it because cable companies force you to rent their cable box in order to get HD channels. Likewise if you had FioS television or Direct TV, you would be using their tuner rather than the tuner built into the television.

If you are in a dorm or something where the SD cable is provided free and there might not be any HD or cable box involved, then it's probably best to just get a cheap television with the tuner built in and forego the Playstation television. However I knew some people that had TV tuner cards in their computer and then hooked up to a standard PC monitor. So that is still an option (either the Playstation display without the tuner, or a 24" or 27" in LCD/LED computer monitor which also wouldn't have a tuner). This Playstation monitor is basicaly the same thing, except you are trading off the better pixel density of a PC monitor for 3D capabilities of the Playstation display. It really depends on if messing around with the 3D is important to you or not, that's really the ONLY reason to consider the Playstation display. It's basically a nice cheap way to play with the 3D games and watch some 3D movies (albeit I know it's a gimmick, but I do have a few 3D blu-ray combo packs and wish I could watch the 3D versions rather than just the 2D).

samsung have dropped the price of their 3d smart tvs and are a good brand. they will have almost everything you want from a 3dtv. only down side is samsung use active 3d which means expensive glasses and if they break which they will in college its annoying having to replace. LG tvs are also quite cheap lately and they use the passive 3d which from what ive seen looks just as good as active but the glasses for it are very very cheap. also a big plus for LG tvs is a feature called dual play. it allows you to have 2 player splitscreen in fullscreen mode it works brilliantly and makes splitscreen more fun

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That would be a pretty big price jump though. Even though they are pretty affordable if you are looking for a 40" HDTV, it sounds like from this thread he's just looking for something cheap. Maybe even for a dorm or something.

I'm assuming since the Playstation display is 24" that he's looking in that size range of televisions, which is why I suggested maybe also looking at 24" or 27" computer monitors as a "display".

Have a sound system with the PS3 display. they hype up the sound quality on the box, but its cringe worthy. :?darkspineslayer