Are TV's with pc input worth it?

Are TV's with pc input worth it?
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answer:Yes. I actually just got a tv, and now use it all the time to watch shows on. It’s especially nice because I can now have friends over and we can watch Captain Jack Harkness in much closer to life-size, as he was meant to be seen (and ogled), instead of this 15×15 crap or something. I don’t have cable or satillite providing me with tv, so it’s a nice way to circumvent Comcast and just go with Hulu/Amazon/Netflix/etc. What hookups does your computer have? Can you connect via HDMI (easy-peasy), or do you need a VGA? I think HDMI hookups are pretty standard now, so if you can hook your computer up via that, it’s not really much of an upgrade so much as what Walmart has in stock.
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