Cheapest 1920 x 1080 monitor?

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Television broadcast services have nothing to do with a screen intended for use with a PC on which to play games.

If that were the case then why not buy a 2560 x 1440p monitor for gaming?

Because the OP is asking for a 1920x1080 monitor.

Unless your Sony can turn off the scaling by letter boxing the picture it will cause damage to the picture quality of any 720p broadcast. Motionflow 120 hertz televisions cannot replicate the complexity of motion of a true 60 frames per second broadcast. For purists the only proper way to watch movies like the Hobbit is with a native 720p television with a native Blue Ray player outputting a native 720p, 48 frames per second signal. Only then will you experience full high definition in all its glory.

1080p televisions produce scaling artifacts. When a 720p broadcast is displayed on a 1080p television the odd lines are doubled and the even lines are single. Thus if you are wearing a shirt with stripes it will look as if your shirt had fat lines and skinny lines. The whole picture becomes warped and distorted.

1080p televisions do a good job of displaying movies shot at 24 frames per second. But this can never be called high definition because 24 fps is only standard definition. The International Telecommunications Union has made it very clear. Only formats that have better temporal resolution than standard definition can be called high definition. The 1080i and the 1080p formats failed to meet ITU high definition specifications. Unfortunately When the ITU decided to grandfather in the obsolete 1080i and 1080p formats is when these obsolete formats started to rear their ugly heads by falsely claiming

By definition, high definition video, unlike still photography, is all about motion, period. Interlace video formats such has 1080i cannot display motion without literally cutting up the picture like it went through a vegetable slicer resulting in horrible artifacts which cannot be considered full high definition. Progressive formats like 1080p are limited to 24 frames per second capture which might be great compared to a slide show but do not offer full high definition motion fidelity.

Only 720p with its 60 frames per second full frame motion capture can be considered full high definition. Formats such as 1080i should be called 540i because that number truly represents the formats actual picture quality.

The problem is that 1080p Blu-Ray is not full high definition. That is why the 720p format is used for all World Series baseball games that are sold on Blu-Ray discs.

Most movies are shot at 24 fps but this is not high definition. The National Football League uses 16mm movie film shot at 120 frames per second because 24 fps would look horrible.

1080p televisions cannot show 720p broadcasts without introducing scaling artifacts. Native 60 fps content for 1080p is unavailable commercially unless you create your own content and it is not supported by Blu-Ray.

16mm film is cheaper than 35mm film but it still would cost thousands of dollars per hour to purchase and develop the film. So no wonder everything is going digital.