G550 or P650 in a new PC ? please help me decide

wrote:

Thanks for the descriptions, Steven. The desktop zooming seems indeed
a very nice feature. Have you ever tried it on a TV, if possible at
all ?

As to LCDs, they're not only expensive and, like you said, not
pixel-dense as desired. Unless I'm quite wrong, they require you to
stay in a center front area to view the whole screen, so when two
people look at it it goes out of perfect.
At least that's my experience with laptops' TFTs.

Viewing angle on current generation LCD displays is 160 degrees or more.



Steven Whatley wrote in message news:

The desktop zooming on the G and P series card enlarges the desktop.
Let's say you like using a 1600x1200 desktop. PixelTOUCH cycles the
desktop between 1x, 2x, 4x, 1x, ... I have this feature assigned to Alt
+
Crtl + "Num +". Each cycle doubles the pixel size. So at 2x, you see a
800x600 area of the desktop but the actually screen resolution is still
the 1600x1200. Like wase 4x zoom you see a 400x300 area of the desktop
and the pixels are each 4x4.

As the cursor reaches the edge of the zoomed area, the desktop pans. The
panning is very smooth and is done in hardware so Windows doesn't realize
what is happening. Video overlay still works when the desktop is at full
zoom (4x). I have yet to come across any software conflicts with
Matrox's PixelTOUCH.

Being visually impared this is a great help. I can run at a high res
(1920x1440) but still be able to reed the screen.

BTW, like you I am not ready to get LCDs, yet. The displays are too
expensive and the pixel density isn't high enough for me. I would like a
17" LCD that can do at least 1600x1200.

Good luck,
Steven

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"J. Clarke" wrote in message ...
wrote:

Thanks for the descriptions, Steven. The desktop zooming seems indeed
a very nice feature. Have you ever tried it on a TV, if possible at
all ?

As to LCDs, they're not only expensive and, like you said, not
pixel-dense as desired. Unless I'm quite wrong, they require you to
stay in a center front area to view the whole screen, so when two
people look at it it goes out of perfect.
At least that's my experience with laptops' TFTs.

Viewing angle on current generation LCD displays is 160 degrees or more.

The "viewing angle" listed in monitor specs refers to the
range an image can be seen, not the range an image can
be seen without color degradation. TFTs have improved
with regard to horizontal viewing angle, but vertically
they're still very limited, more than 20 or 30 degrees up
or down and colors still get all out of whack.

Rick