LCD TV Rating

What is the major drawback of using an LCD TV as your computer's "monitor"?

I'm about to buy a computer and have been researching the best 24" to 30" monitors around. From my price range it's between Apple and Dell's Ultrasharp series. From what ive seen, TV's of comparable size to the monitors have higher contrast ratio's (15000:1 compared to 5000:1), lower refresh rates (4ms compared to 8ms) and are seemingly alot cheaper. With the right connection (VGA ?) you could just hook up your tv to the computer. Two notes: *i'm a newb so the details could be wrong. *it's a mac i need to buy a screen for (i.e. compatibility)

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1. If it's a Mac you'll want a DVI rather than VGA input on the display (it'll work with VGA, but that's like buying the DVD, recording it to VHS and watching the copy all the time). The main benefit to using a dedicated computer monitor as your display is the resolution; a computer monitor will pack many more pixels into the same space, giving you crisper images. Personally I'd just get a TV receiver for the Mac and get a real computer display as it will give you much more flexibility (check Elgato.com), unless you're only going to use the computer as a media-centre. If that's the case you won't need resolutions higher than a standard TV anyway and you could save some money.