Big screen for home theater but no tuner? Can I get it?

Or hook them straight up to a projector and a https://www.google.com/shopping/product/1917006413830053468?q=projector%20screen&hl=en&safe=active&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.cGE&bpcl=40096503&biw=1440&bih=775&sa=X&ei=e3LnUJm2MMPQiwKUwIDgDw&ved=0CL0BEPMCMAQ!

You can indeed buy a large monitor, but since it qualifies as professional gear, it's going to be more expensive than a regular TV with speakers and tuner and whatnot.

As markblasco said, you should be able to use your TV in pretty much exactly the same way you’d use a monitor. Just turn off what you’re not using, If it doesn’t work right for you it wouldn’t work right with a monitor either.

"Oh, just one question but let me add, I have a 60" plasma now by LG and I have a Panasonic home theater. Well, I can *never* get the home theater right for sound from the tv. Now that I think of it it might be trouble, equal trouble, with only a monitor because I'd need the sound anyway to come out. Oh well. Thanks to all for the quick and helpful responses." I'm not sure exactly how you have things setup, but if you have a home theater sound system, you should have NO sound going into your TV. It should go from your DVD player or TV tuner or whatever into the theater system (Which I'm assuming is how you are switching between your sources). If you are plugging your video sources straight into your TV and then from that into the theater system, you are connecting things the wrong way. We have a consumer TV, and the only plugs going into it are the 3 composite video plugs. No audio gets plugged in at all, and we just leave the TV volume at 0. All of the video sources go into the receiver, which switches the audio and video. The TV remote is only used to turn the TV on and off.

The line between the pro monitors and consumer televisions is mainly just price. I work at a TV station, and we only use consumer plasmas for our monitoring. We made the switch when we saw a price difference of about $10k between monitors and TV's, with no picture difference. The salesman told us "those TV's won't last as long, they aren't made for 24/7 use." We didn't care, we can afford to replace them. Haven't lost one in 6 years, and the two pro monitors we do have have been monster service problems.

It sounds like you don't want a TV, but a projector.

The fact I can't simply turn on my tv and get sound from the home theater automatically is frustrating. Sometimes it picks up audio right away and other times I must change the input to the home theater on the tv and then reset the audio on the home theater ( the input to digital ). It could be because the tv is not the brand of the home theater but now that I've learned about monitors I'll just live with my first-world problem. The good news is that first world problems often have first world solutions. My parents had a similar issue - they had a cable box, a dvd player, and a receiver. The receiver needed attention anytime they switched sources, and had a terrible, terrible remote. I bought them a Logitech Harmony remote, and after a brief adjustment period, they loved it. You set it up on a computer via usb cable, and then when you use it to turn on your tv, it sends the right commands to all the various pieces, and you get the result you want. There's a good write-up of it at http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-universal-remote-harmony-700/. I mentioned an adjustment period, and there was one, but there's a little help button on the remote you hit when things get wonky and it is pretty good about getting things back on track. They virtually never need to use that button anymore.

Would an HD LCD monitor work? http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/666622-REG/Sharp_PN_E601_PN_E601_60_Full_Color.html, at least.

The fact I can't simply turn on my tv and get sound from the home theater automatically is frustrating. Sometimes it picks up audio right away and other times I must change the input to the home theater on the tv and then reset the audio on the home theater ( the input to digital ). It could be because the tv is not the brand of the home theater but now that I've learned about monitors I'll just live with my first-world problem.