TV/Monitor Dimensions

[Mr.Huggles]

I've been shopping around for monitors and tv's to use for a home theatre pc and have noticed that when a lot of screens are advertised at something like 22", 26", 32" or whatever, they tend to actually be half an inch smaller than advertised.  In doing my research this would lead me to believe you wouldn't get a native 1:1 pixel ratio for the screen (depending on the resolution you are viewing it at), but am I wrong?  Are these half inch variants the true dimensions for 1:1 pixel ratios or are manufacturers just trying to sell a product at lower cost per material while duping the consumer into thinking they have something larger than what they actually bought?

[AskTJ]

Is half an inch really that important to you? You get the same amount of pixles and the same resolution.

[Mr.Huggles]

1 hour ago, AskTJ said:

Is half an inch really that important to you? You get the same amount of pixles and the same resolution.

it's important if you don't want pixel distortion.

[Pasi123]

It has nothing to do with pixel ratio etc. Why would the size change the pixel ratio when the monitor/TV still has the same aspect ratio?

[dalekphalm]

On 6/20/2018 at 8:04 PM, Mr.Huggles said:

I've been shopping around for monitors and tv's to use for a home theatre pc and have noticed that when a lot of screens are advertised at something like 22", 26", 32" or whatever, they tend to actually be half an inch smaller than advertised.  In doing my research this would lead me to believe you wouldn't get a native 1:1 pixel ratio for the screen (depending on the resolution you are viewing it at), but am I wrong?  Are these half inch variants the true dimensions for 1:1 pixel ratios or are manufacturers just trying to sell a product at lower cost per material while duping the consumer into thinking they have something larger than what they actually bought?

You should still get the full pixel visibility on-screen. Many manufacturers are just making the panel slightly smaller, and then "rounding up", because it sounds better.

 

This is not always the case, mind you. Some 32" TV's really are 32". Others are 31.5", etc.

 

But it's not like they are taking a 32" panel, and then hiding a half inch behind the bezel.

 

So there should be zero pixel distortion. Just make sure to enable "native" resolution on the TV, so that you avoid zoom cut-off. And that's mostly true for every HDTV.