Alright, so I plan on buying a full HD, 16:9 monitor to game on, but I dont' plan on buying that until mid July. For now I decided to game on a regular computer monitor that my family was no longer using. The monitor specs claim that it has a 16ms response time. Will this be noticeable? I play Halo competitively, so I need my monitor to work as well as possible. Thanks for the input.
Yes. Panic. Why don't you use a TV? How come everyone uses computer monitors? Also...I don't know if this is relevant but...I have a 42" HDTV and when I played rock band it felt way off...so yeah.
Some larger LCDs can cause lag by up to 0.5 seconds, MLG discovered this a while back. But 16 milliseconds is nothing, seriously. If you have sharp reaction times, then that still 200 milliseconds. Regular TVs probably have a longer 'reaction time'. How did you find out the time?
I googled the model and it took me straight to the monitor's page on the manufacturers website. Monitors do everything a TV does, plus some. I could use a monitor for all kinds of things, such as movies, cable / satellite TV (I think you have to get something for it though), console gaming, or using with an actual computer. TVs can also be used for movies, gaming, and cable / satellite TV, but cannot be used as a computer screen, as text would be blurry. Monitors also tend to have shorter delay times. Both TVs and monitors can come with all the same inputs, but most monitors don't have A/V input, and most TVs don't have VGA/DSI input. So basically, TVs and monitors are about the same, but monitors can be used for a few more things. Technically there are some other insignificant differences, but nothing major. Hope that cleared things up. *EDIT: Here is a little more info.