In article ,
Gareth's Downstairs Computer  
wrote:
>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.

Unless you are a "high end gamer" you'll not notice any issues whatsoever.

>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?

Roku was one of the adopters of the Pi's SoC and yes, it was designed
as a set-top-box type of SoC, rather than a mobile phone type SoC.

>Any advice thereto?

Just plug it in and forget it.

Actually, you may need to fiddle with the overscan settings, depending
on the TV - the raspi-config utility will let you do this under Raspbian.

Gordon

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