Using blender with massive, high refresh rate, HDR type TV's anyone?

Was thinking that I should get a massive TV and use for Blender development etc? The thinking is the larger it is, within reason, the better I can see the detail and so on. I found this tv below, has HDR10, dolby vision, 120Hz and is 55" diagonal. Anyone currently do this or tried this? (before I spend this money lol) I’d be able to use it to watch TV on my PC also along with movies and what not and the PC it’s hooked to does have surround sound and I also use it for gaming. Dont know if it matters but I have a liquid cooled, overclocked 4090. The only thing I can think of is I’d be losing display port and forced to use HDMI. I do have a 32" 4k widescreen G-SYNC monitor already so not a total loss, I guess I could go dual screen. Just thinking out loud here, any input would be appreciated.

Wondering if this somehow impacts Blender negatively? I can’t think of any reason why but I’m also pretty new to Blender so…

Pros and cons?

It might be OK but it will not be as sharp as a 4K monitor. TV’s typically use 4:2:2 color sampling which means not all colors are equal as far as resolution which makes for a noticeably softer image which is not ideal for computer displays that rely on sharp lines and text. I’d try it first if you can, you may not like it.

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Interesting point, ok thanks!

Before making a decision, you could check to see if it has a 4:4:4 mode. I know I used one in the past at 4:2:2 and it was not great. Now if you had an 8K TV it might make up for it.

Hello, I have just started learning Blender and I am using Blender 4.1. I am trying to render from a point cloud, but no matter what format I use, I cannot see any colors. When I first downloaded it, the point cloud visualizer was not available, so I found a file on GitHub and added it to my Blender. I think I am experiencing a similar issue with the colors. Can you please help me with how to fix this?

I think this is an entirely different issue. I’ve never tried to render point clouds so I suggest you post in the support/rendering section giving a good description of your issue and upload a sample scene if possible:

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I’ve been using TVs as my primary displays for well over a decade now and I’ve never had one that didn’t support RGB 4:4:4.

With TVs now supporting GSync/Freesync/VRR there’s basically no difference between them and monitors, other than the inputs (there aren’t many TVs that have DisplayPort in, but it doesn’t really matter any more because HDMI 2.1 has more bandwidth than DP1.4, and almost nothing supports DP2.0), or we’re talking super high-end factory color calibrated monitors.

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Good to know! With my short sighted vision failing I think I’ll consider a large one and put it further away.

Wow, good info thanks! I saw that with the TV I posted does have 4:4:4 and here’s some additional information on it that’s interesting, from the manual.

“If you want the TCL QLED to display chroma 4:4:4 when using it as a PC monitor, set the Picture Mode to ‘PC’ and set the HDMI mode to 2.1”

HDMI 2.1 max is 48Gbps fyi…very fast, thanks for that.