Turning TV Backlight down Reduces Heat?

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Brandon Byrnes

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I have a 55" TV that i'm using as a monitor and it seems to be radiating a lot of heat. It's summer and my house only has two big window air conditioners running but I've noticed my room is always the warmest in the house. I'm 100% sure it's becuase my computer and TV. My question is, will turning off the backlight on my TV reduce the amount of heat it is putting off. I have the backlight setting set to 100%. I turned the backlight off and didn't really even notice any difference on my screen, brightness wise, what i did notice though is that when scrolling webpages and when moving the mouse I am getting visible trails, almost like reducing the backlight reduced the refresh rate. Thats not a huge problem, although a little annoying if it actualy helps ruduce the temp in my room then I'm fine with it.
 
We have visited the TV as a monitor before and to repeat, a TV was not designed to be a computer monitor and will never work as well as a computer monitor.
 
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