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Awesome commercial display with 1 HDMI port. What should I do with it?

PoorAndNeedy
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Hi All,

 

I got a pretty cool commercial display off of craigslist. It's basically the same as a TV (and I plan to use it as one) but it has some pros and cons:

 

Pros

  • Much Higher Quality (All Metal Parts)
  • Built in stereo/amplifier
  • Much Brighter than a regular TV
  • 1xDVI (in and out), 1xVGA, 1xDisplayPort

Cons

  • Speakers are crap
  • No TV tuner built in
  • Only 1 HDMI Port

Exact Model: https://www.necdisplay.com/p/v423

 

Question/Advice from you all. What should I connect to it? I hate the idea of using an HDMI switch and needing to differentiate between changing the TV channel and the HDMI switch channel. If I am very limited on ports, what should I use those ports for? Is there some solution that would make it so that I would never need to change the TV channel?

 

Thanks!

 

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PIP/POP/Side-by-Side

Picture-in-picture (PIP) allows for a second frame within the screen area. Picture-on-picture (POP) surrounds the standard frame with multiple frames. Side-by-side places two sources adjacent to one another.

This screen is awesome 

muh specs 

Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz @ 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0  ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives

Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

All parts black

Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays

Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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Use it as a PC monitor?

That's what I do with my TV.

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Your question is kind of confusing. Hdmi switches are actually pretty decent at auto switching now. If you are going to use a newer sound bar or reciever you can switch inputs on either of those. Short of that only run 1 input device?

 

You could always buy the digital tuner card for the monitor and use the hdmi port for a device and hook a pc up to the displayport or use a displayport to hdmi adapter.

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