On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:37:57 +0100) it happened Gareth's
Downstairs Computer
  wrote in
:

>ISTR reading somewhere that one was advised not to
>use the HDMI input on a TV set as it could be slow
>to respond, but to use a special-purpose monitor for
>the RPi series.

Respond to what?
TV is one way rapi->video->TV.

Works OK on my big Samsung TV.
Also works OK o nsmall HDMI monitor from ebay.

Just do not use an analog monitor on the analog raspi output,
not enough resoluton for most purposes...
But it is possible, I have that too.

If you are contemplating touch screen yes than you need a special monitor.


>
>But also somewhere read that the origin of the Broadcom
>GPU was as an HDMI output to TV sets as part of
>a Freeview box?
>
>Any advice thereto?
>
>TIA
>
>(Sorry, flooding this NG somewhat in recent weeks; I
>have RPis 1, 2, and 3, all awaiting unwrapping from
>the boxes in which they came, but it is the excitement
>of 64 bit which has inspired me to get the Rpi3 going)

Now, talk about response time ;-)
that is bad man.

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