wrote:
> My intentions are going for a 1600x1200 resolution
> and my
> preferred brand would be a Samsung again !!
>
http://www.samsung.com/au/products/monitors/tft/index.asp
Svobi, Martin --
I bought my LCD monitor (which remains a backup and
for local portability, as I continue to use a CRT day
to day in my home office) back in mid-'04, so I can
only give you general and not the most current info.
That said, I think the main differences with today are
apt to be: lower prices, better value for the dollar,
faster response time (in milliseconds -- has
implications mostly for video playback or gaming), and
possibly a better picture *in some cases.* My LCD is
a 19" Planar, purchased from Dell. Planar sells only
direct, or through Amazon or Dell. I was extremely
picky about picture quality when I bought mine --
especially at the prices then in effect -- and at that
time the only panels I saw (out of many) that I did
not have some serious objections to were Samsungs,
Dell's "own" label, and the Planars. I had also read
a whole bunch of reviews.
At that time the Dells were all rebadged Samsungs, and
may still be. (There must be some place to find that
out.) My brother bought a couple of the Dell 2000-FP
series, and liked them a lot. With Dell online
rebates and time-linked coupons, they were a major
savings over the equivalent unbadged Samsungs. Also
had some extra connectors and other features. The
Planars were a good value also.
> Beside of the resolution I also would consider the
> Pivot function:
> Changing from landscape to portrait may be supported
> with SNAP
> as a custom setting !? However with anything else
> than OS/2 it may
> be supported better !?
Pivot software may be included with certain panels /
models (it was with mine), but it is Windoze only.
Perhaps it would work under SVISTA -- no idea.
Martin wrote:
>What is the story about analog and digital input?
It all depends on your video card. My older Matrox
card is dual-head, the other head being a DVI type
(digital), which is needed for many LCD panels. My
Planar panel happens to accept either analog or DVI,
so I have connection options. That's good, because I
mostly use it with the Shuttle (double-shoebox size
computer), which has its video on a MB chip, and I
believe has NO digital output. If any panels
currently on the market still give you a choice, I'd
say it's good to retain that flexibility. You never
know what you might want to connect your panel to, at
some point.
> Also, I am used to a 15 inch diagonal CRT monitor. I
> suppose anything larger (17, 19 inch) will seem
> like a great deal to me.
Anything smaller than 17" (or equivalent CM, Svobi !)
is a big mistake, IMO.
> If I get a larger size monitor will I be able to
> see text better at a resolution
> higher than 1024 x 768?
Here's the deal, and it's a problem we'll all have to
deal with in the post-CRT era, also for TVs. These
are *fixed-pixel* displays. They each have some
native resolution, at which the picture looks best.
Everything else is achieved by -- what is the right
term ? -- scaling, interpolation ? You can run at
other resolutions, but if you can stick to that native
resolution, you'll have by far the best results. In
computer monitors, I think the main choice *was* to
get SXGA (1280 x 1024 native res. ?), or UXGA (1600 x
1200 res. ?, mostly available in panels 20" or larger
?). Don't want to completely trust my recall here,
and I'm assuming this all still applies.
I'm guessing you won't care all that much about
response time. When I bought my LCD, 25ms. r/t was a
big deal, and the first 16ms. panels were just
starting to come on the market. Now there are 8 ms.
or 6ms. panels and TVs.
In an earlier post, you asked about plasma. Forget
about that: much more expensive, only available for
larger size TVs (40" and up), TTBOMK.
> What is wrong with getting a Fry's special Flat
> panel monitor?
Because their house brands, like GQ, really SUCK !!
> Will it have a poor quality picture? Will it not be
> bright enough? Will it wear out fast?
Wouldn't surprise me at all . . . .
Good luck.
Jordan
P.S.: I was just about to send you this reply this
morning, when the power went out for
6 1/2 hours. So now I'm sending it from another
location.
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