Use LED 40" or 50" TV as monitor for mac mini?

Is this too large of a tv for reasonable desktop use? Resolution is 1080. Would like to also alternate and use the tv as an actual tv. Any advice as I undertake this endeavor is appreciated. Is the screen blurry at all when the display is this large? I have a 27" iMac and would like a bigger display.
Considering 40" or 50" LED Smart Samsung Full HD 1080 tv.
Thanks!

They would be too big to have on the same desk you are sat at but would certainly work, they would be suitable for using the Mac mini as a 'media centre'.
One issue with many TVs is that they are designed to auto-optimise video i.e. TV or DVD/Blu-Ray type video and are not designed to best work with static text or screen images from a computer. This can mean that even compared to a computer LCD display of the same physical size and resolution the image looks much worse, e.g. fuzzy. If your using the Mac mini as a media centre then this will usually mean video not text is the predominant display and so this will not be a problem, however word-processing, spreadsheets, etc. might look poor.
An option some people might be starting to consider would be using a 4K TV as a computer monitor as well as a TV. Unfortunately we are not quite there yet. The problems are that all 4K TVs except for a Panasonic one only come with HDMI 2.0 interfaces and no Mac yet made includes HDMI 2.0. All Macs made so far are using HDMI 1.4 which only supports 4K at 30fps whereas HDMI 2.0 supports 4K at 60fps. The Panasonic also has a Displayport interface which could be used to do 4K at 60fps from a Mac - but not the Mac mini. However looking to the future in theory you would be able to use a 4K TV at 60fps and then treat it like a 'retina display'.

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