"Intel's next generation laptop platform, code named Montevina, has a nice feature that remains quite unheraleded, Displayport. Not only does it allow you to drive an external DP monitor, it uses it internally." My take: So let me get this straight. We are finally leaving the days behind where TVs were TVs and computer monitors were computer monitors, entering a brave new world where a TV can be a computer monitor and vice versa, all thanks to DVI/HDMI - and now we're getting Displayport on computers, recreating the wretched OR situation of yore? If I had any hair, I'd be pulling it out right now.
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Well, one thing a TV is increasingly often is a computer running Linux ;-). Seriously though, you're absolutely right.
I would agree that there are too many different types of cables and that makes it difficult for average consumers to buy products, but I imagine that's something hardware vendors will eventually address and completely separate from the original complaint.
To me, it sounds like a better standard than HDMI, esp. if you can get a DP-HDMI converter. It's just one more connection you'll see increasingly often in monitors _and_ TVs.
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if not a monitor with a radio tuner built in?
It is not. The TV viewer is usually sitting far from the screen, so TV panels = large dimensions + crappy colors/performance.
PC monitors: the viewer is near the display and spend a lot of time here, so it is required to have compact high-quality high-resolution panel.
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interestingly, that just summed up my complaint about HDTV 
still, how sits very close to a 30" monitor (like those dell have for sale)?
if you sit at desktop distance your moving your head to pick up the corners, and you could just as well have gone with a couple of smaller ones side by side.
but then i have this crazy ass dream about displays standardized around iso standard sizes (you know, the A4 and friends) with a standardized pizel size.
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if not a monitor with a radio tuner built in?
but said tuner in a box, hooked to the monitor via some kind of connector and the difference is what?