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What is the Difference between a Television and Monitor?

April 26, 2017difference hdtv high definition monitor monitors television televisions tv TVs video

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What is the Difference between a Television and Monitor?

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What is the Difference between a Television and Monitor?I am shopping on the computer for a television. I see items listed as televisions and others listed as monitors. What is the difference?Answer: Technically, a television has tuners; a monitor does not. Let me explain. In order to watch TV you need a tuner. It doesn’t matter if the tuner is in your TV or provided by your TV service provider. The bottom line is having a tuner. Where this TV or monitor question becomes an issue is when using an antenna. Since the monitor doesn’t have a tuner it would need help in order to work with an antenna. The help would come in the form of an external digital tuner or a digital-to-analog converter (also called a DTV converter box). If you own a digital monitor and want to use an antenna then it makes sense to want to buy an external digital tuner so you can watch HD for free. The thing is that external digital tuners cost a lot more than a DTV converter box, so my recommendation is to buy a DTV