With 480p, the TV did true 640x480 with all the horizontal lines being used. Back with tube TVs 480i meant the TV did 640x480 interlaced, so half the horizontal lines weren't used. So then, is there truly any such thing as a 1080p/1080i computer monitor?įrom what I've gathered, the 1080i label is/was misused by TV manufacturers. It seems to have mostly to do with TV and movies and that sort of thing.

Doesn't really seem to apply to computers, or even a game console for that matter (when it comes to video games, anyway). I understand p is for progressive and i is for interlaced and it refers to how the video is recorded or somesuch. Side question: all this 1080p/1080i nonsense. Is there something up with the TV? Maybe it's just not a good quality screen, or not designed to display an image from a PC? How do I choose a good TV that I intend to use with a PC? Or is it best to just use a monitor anyway? but if I tune it down to 1366x768, it looks okay (only thought of 1366x768 as it seems to be the standard resolution to run on a TV from a computer). It looks kinda overbright, text doesn't look right, etc. It's a 1080p screen, and in Windows it shows the native resolution is 1980x1080. Now I have a different TV for testing purposes. I could select 1080i but it looked like ass). It looked fine-at 1440x900, which was the native resolution reported in Windows for the TV (even though it was a 1080i screen. I used a TV as a computer monitor for the longest time, both with the VGA and later on with the HDMI input.

1080p on 720p monitor