I've had recent experiance of this. We bought a Phillips Flat TV - 42" HD-LCD complete with sky+HD recorder, Phillips Hometheatre DVD player surround sound system and a Phillips DVD burner.
While we were setting it up my son - who does all my instalations - realised that we could plug in my laptop!
It seemed to be a bit tricky, but after a few minutes we had Bryce up on the TV screen! Now the picture wasn't perfect but then we didn't mess around with the TV resolution which I'm sure would have accommodated our requirements of a pc monitor. 
The tv picture itself when showing satallite programs - regular tv - is perfect! So I have now doubt that this particular model would do the job.

Not sure where you live but this lot cost us less than £1000uk as a package deal.
This tv is atm sitting on a really cool glass table kinda thing that has the other entertainment equipment on it, but you can buy a metal plate thing that will let you hang the tv on the wall.
Hope this helps!

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