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For the HN audience especially, a simple computer monitor seems like the obvious answer. Set it up however you like.

Maybe it's a little more complicated if you still have cable or something, but unless you're watching live sports, there's not much value there.

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I'm pretty sure Cable boxes all have HDMI these days, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Monitors won't have an over-the-air tuner, so, you'd need to use an external device to watch broadcast TV.

You don't need a cable box or a TV to watch cable TV anymore, you can stream it over it the internet.

HMDI from a computer to a monitor or a projector would work fine.

Except most monitors are smaller than 40" and don't have speakers.

If you are using the built in speakers on any tv, you are losing the game. Additionally a few of my monitors have crappy speakers that turn up as a hdmi output device, often to my dismay.

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