In the past, tv and monitors were two seperate products that shared some common underlying technology. Nowadays, they're just different market segments for the same product, differing mostly in the size, case, and marketing.

Plus, since most HD content is recorded at a native resolution of 1080, watching it on a monitor with a physical resolution of 1080 (or multiple thereof) gives the best results. This is nice if you want to watch blue ray of HD streaming on you pc.

David Glaser <dglaser@glaserresearch.net> wrote:

I was looking at monitors at WurstBuy and noticed that the maximum vertical resolution is 1080 lines.

I then looked at the sites of the various monitor manufacturers and also noticed that almost all of their offerings has a maximum vertical resolution of 1080 lines. You could get higher resolution but the prices are through the roof.

Can anyone shed some light on the trend?

-David

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