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looking for small lcd monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio
Would like to buy a 16:9 monitor to use for both PC
and TV without screen distortion, but have high resolution for PC applications. 24 inch widescreen or less ... native resolution 1920 x 1080 only. Finding it very hard to get past the vendor jargon claiming 1920 x 1200 is a 16:9 when it is a 16:10 ..... and then the TV vendors claiming that 1333 x 768 is high resolution. The one I really want is a Dell S2409W, but the Chinese Children are still building them, and it is not on the market yet. johns |
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looking for small lcd monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio
On Jul 25, 3:44 pm, johns wrote:
Would like to buy a 16:9 monitor to use for both PC and TV without screen distortion, but have high resolution for PC applications. 24 inch widescreen or less ... native resolution 1920 x 1080 only. Finding it very hard to get past the vendor jargon claiming 1920 x 1200 is a 16:9 when it is a 16:10 .... and then the TV vendors claiming that 1333 x 768 is high resolution. The one I really want is a Dell S2409W, but the Chinese Children are still building them, and it is not on the market yet. johns I've a couple -- a 32" Syntax (here's to looking at you) and a NEC 37" across the room for my mooies, music, & etc. Both with AGP Radeon 96/98xx series ATI boards. I've OEM ATI graphic drivers for native 1333x768 on these older boards, OMEGA drivers. I don't do TeeVee jargon, as I don't $ub$cribe anymore since the past 5, 10 years -- QAM suffices here occasionally for a couple PBS types. Trust me on this. Remember when CRTs were supplanted with LCDs...well, it's like that. Get a well-reviewed HDTeeVee and you won't look back twice. Skip the 24" and go for the gusto -- as big "in your face" as you can take. 'PC applications' -- what's that mean? Games? |
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looking for small lcd monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio
Flasherly wrote:
I've a couple -- a 32" Syntax (here's to looking at you) and a NEC 37" across the room for my mooies, music, & etc. Both with AGP Radeon 96/98xx series ATI boards. I've OEM ATI graphic drivers for native 1333x768 on these older boards, OMEGA drivers. I don't do TeeVee jargon, as I don't $ub$cribe anymore since the past 5, 10 years -- QAM suffices here occasionally for a couple PBS types. Trust me on this. Remember when CRTs were supplanted with LCDs...well, it's like that. Get a well-reviewed HDTeeVee and you won't look back twice. Skip the 24" and go for the gusto -- as big "in your face" as you can take. 'PC applications' -- what's that mean? Games? Confused on what you are saying above. Do you mean to buy big LCD TVs and use them as PC monitors and set BACK and do you computing? If yes..... this works out well for you? |
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looking for small lcd monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio
He has discovered what I've also discovered. The industry is moving
to 16:9, but there is no market for small lcd TVs ... so the size has jumped a lot. Still, my need is also a desktop lcd monitor, but it is going to be used in a fan-out to 3 monitors. 2 of them will be 46 inchers for students to view, and the 3rd needs to also be 16:9, but small for the teacher to view at the same time. What I am trying to do is come from a single video card output to a 1 in x 3 out amplifier and drive 3 16:9 monitors at the same resolution. That will prevent distortion caused by polling between dual monitors using 2 outputs from the video card. That really looks crappy. But the fan-out box from a single video card output prevents that, and it looks great. johns |
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looking for small lcd monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio
On Jul 26, 3:00 pm, wrote:
Flasherly wrote: I've a couple -- a 32" Syntax (here's to looking at you) and a NEC 37" across the room for my mooies, music, & etc. Both with AGP Radeon 96/98xx series ATI boards. I've OEM ATI graphic drivers for native 1333x768 on these older boards, OMEGA drivers. I don't do TeeVee jargon, as I don't $ub$cribe anymore since the past 5, 10 years -- QAM suffices here occasionally for a couple PBS types. Trust me on this. Remember when CRTs were supplanted with LCDs...well, it's like that. Get a well-reviewed HDTeeVee and you won't look back twice. Skip the 24" and go for the gusto -- as big "in your face" as you can take. 'PC applications' -- what's that mean? Games? Confused on what you are saying above. Do you mean to buy big LCD TVs and use them as PC monitors and set BACK and do you computing? If yes..... this works out well for you? Comfortably, about arm's length, so yes, I can reach and touch the 32", and, oh - hell yes, it works good for me. When I was getting into it, Syntax was the major player for people interested in computing on HDTVs. Balance of better features at a competitive price. This is my second Syntax at something under a couple of years (first Syntax was kinky and broke, second a warranty upgrade model replacement with the problems hopefully ironed out). I keep my old 20" Samsung SyncMaster (swivels for pagemode) only for occasional troubleshooting or building systems. I'm not following it these days -- tracking other players, like Vizio. The 37" NEC was next, (built for more exacting specifications and a semi-commercial flatpannel) -- that's for across-the-room and SET BACK, as you say. Music and movies, but it's also a primary function for being a computer-driven monitor. The advantage to computer/movies is software transpositions -- leeway running pixelated, say, at 1333x768. Running ATCS off air or QAM on cable is another story. Preferences enter into it -- what a person is comfortable with: 1) how close to the monitor, 2) acceptable pixel transitions for media source matter, 3) is it theatrically Dolby 5.1, 4) HD/BluRay, N to the X) or the list goes on. For computing, in my humble opinion, get the biggest, baddest screen your desk will hold, as close and in-your-face as you feel comfortable viewing. I think it's great compared to first-generation smaller screens. (Games and intensive graphics apps I'd disqualify myself). The 37" across the room might be a little tall here -- never tried it that way. Too tall means dry uncomfortable eyeballs from looking up and not blinking naturally. Also was checking out Logitec's gyroscopic, hand-held "air mouse" and wishing the price were other than $150. Like to have that for NEC, along with an IR event wake-up MB I neglected when building the computer for it. Streaching out from the couch for an IR keyboard and mouse off a coffee table is of course going to be somewhat awkward. |
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