I wouldn't make it a priority though. If you find a TV with such inputs and they have a decent price, go for it. But don't waste money on it. It may be nice as a 'gadget' kind of thing, but not really needed as you can use the TV as a second monitor even without this special PC-input (though the quality would be slithly less).
Most of the time, TV's with such function costs a lot more too... so... the factor would be if you want to spend that extra money (I know I wouldn't).
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What would achieve the best quality?
PC-input (aka VGA input)...
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I want to be able to watch some movies i have on my harddrive
In most cases, those movies are in a compressed quality anyways, you would not much benefit from a digital VGA input compared to a normal S-Video input.
As for DVDs, this goes roughly the same. In fact, playing DVDs on your computer could output a lesser picture quality compared to playing it on a standalone DVD player to begin with.
Thus again no 'big' difference between a vga-input and s-video here.
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as well as play some games on the big screen.
Quality with a vga-input would be better. Then again, even with s-video you have a very good quality. And most games change graphics on the screen fast (aka: the picture is moving all the time), the more a picture is non-static, the less you'll notice a difference between vga and s-video input.
If there is a visible difference at all, you would notice it most on static images (eg: photo's).
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Ease of use is also an issue. I want to be able to switch of straight away when i want it, so no need for looking for cables and moving around to plug it in at the back etc so i can leave it plugged in and it will not affect my normal day to day use.
Doesn't matter, both vga and s-video inputs are equally easy to work with; it's just a matter of setting your video card driver settings once and that's it.
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