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Posted by Walter R. on April 25, 2008, 7:41 pm
Please log in for more thread options variety, although some 4x3 monitors are still available. I suppose, a 22" widescreen monitor has about the same number of square inches as a 19" 4x3 format monitor. My computer is six years old and uses a Nvidia GeForce 4Mx4000. I suppose that most websites are still designed for 4x3 monitors and, if I use a widescreen monitor, I will have large black spaces on both sides of my screen. Can someone enlighten me? Buy a 19" 4x3 or a 22" widescreen monitor? -- Walter www.rationality.net - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Calab on April 25, 2008, 7:44 pm
Please log in for more thread options If your REALLY cheap, you can find good deals on used CRT monitors. If you are going to buy new, find a decent widescreen LCD. -- Fight Usenet Spam!!! - http://improve-usenet.org:80/ Want a good newsgroup reader that will filter out GoogleGroups spam? Try MesNews - http://www.mesnews.net/gb/ If you want your posts to be seen, DON'T USE GOOGLE GROUPS! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Grinder on April 25, 2008, 8:27 pm
Please log in for more thread options Walter R. wrote:
> My old 19" monitor gave up its ghost. Most monitors are now the wide-screen
> variety, although some 4x3 monitors are still available. As far as 19" monitors non-widescreen go, it seems like a lot of them are 5:4, but that's only a small point. > I suppose, a 22" widescreen monitor has about the same number of square
> inches as a 19" 4x3 format monitor. > > My computer is six years old and uses a Nvidia GeForce 4Mx4000. > > I suppose that most websites are still designed for 4x3 monitors and, if I > use a widescreen monitor, I will have large black spaces on both sides of my > screen. > > Can someone enlighten me? Buy a 19" 4x3 or a 22" widescreen monitor? Personally, I don't really watch a lot of movies on my pc, or play many games, so a widescreen monitor is not that attractive. I have a 19" 5:4, that I can pivot 90 degrees. I like that, but might go for a larger 4:3 on the next round. I do have a widescreen monitor, however, hooked up to an xbox that I use as a media center. There the widescreen makes a lot of sense. The lingering question, though, is if your video card will support the native resolution of the widescreen monitor of choice. Video memory is not a problem for any reasonably contemporary card, (your MX4000 should be fine) but for whatever reason, the widescreen resolutions seem to be less supported. A pretty common native resolution for a 22" widescreen LCD is 1680 x 1050. I see that ubuntu users are apparently getting that resolution out of the card, but couldn't guarantee it for windows. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on April 25, 2008, 10:37 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:41:14 -0700, "Walter R."
>My old 19" monitor gave up its ghost. Most monitors are now the wide-screen
>variety, although some 4x3 monitors are still available. > >I suppose, a 22" widescreen monitor has about the same number of square >inches as a 19" 4x3 format monitor. If your 19" was a CRT, a 22" LCD has a much larger screen area. If your 19" was LCD, a 22" has roughly 10% more area, though more usable realestate due to (typically) higher resolution. Whether that space is truely useful in your particular applications depends on what you run and your ability to adapt to the new resolution - just as anyone has to do with any resolution change. >
>My computer is six years old and uses a Nvidia GeForce 4Mx4000. > >I suppose that most websites are still designed for 4x3 monitors Not necessarily, they are generally designed for a certain minimum width which tends to be either 1024 or 1280 on sites that are updated more often and have less considerate webmasters. As for height, that's just a matter of how much you have to scroll. If we were instead to look at the shape of the typical sought-after content on a page, where there is often navigation and advertising on the left and right sides, then the best monitor resolution would probably be a page view style about 1280 wide by 2400 tall, except that TN panels are popular in monitors and don't do well when the viewing angle deviates much from 90'. >and, if I
>use a widescreen monitor, I will have large black spaces on both sides of my >screen. ? No you won't, download and install a recent driver from http://www.nvidia.com for your video card (after uninstalling the old one) and you can set a custom resolution (which in the case of 22" would be 1680x1050) which makes use of all available space, no black bars on the sides. Further, many monitors default mode of operation is that if you were to output a non-native resolution (native resolution is always recommended since it is a much sharper image) then the display on the screen would stretch out to fill all available space. The nVidia drivers also tend to have settings where you can control this behavior, whether it stretch out or put the black bars on the sides to keep the correct aspect ratio. Regardless, it should allow setting the proper resolution so this wouldn't be a factor. >Can someone enlighten me? Buy a 19" 4x3 or a 22" widescreen monitor?
19" LCD aren't 4:3 usually, they're either widescreen also, or some are 5:4 as 1280x1024. Get the 22" unless the budget is tight and you want the slight cost savings. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on April 25, 2008, 10:55 pm
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>>and, if I
>>use a widescreen monitor, I will have large black spaces on both sides of my >>screen. >
>? No you won't, download and install a recent driver from >http://www.nvidia.com for your video card (after >uninstalling the old one) and you can set a custom >resolution (which in the case of 22" would be 1680x1050) >which makes use of all available space, no black bars on the >sides. Here is an example of the driver setting you would use for a 22" LCD: http://69.36.166.207/usr_1034/nvidia_custom_res.gif After "Add"ing that resolution it will be available for selection on the slider you would normally use to change resolution on the primary Display Properties page in windows. 60Hz is the typical preferred resolution for an LCD, some will do slightly higher than this but unlike with CRTs, higher refresh rate is not needed to get rid of flickering. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> variety, although some 4x3 monitors are still available.
>
> I suppose, a 22" widescreen monitor has about the same number of square
> inches as a 19" 4x3 format monitor.
>
> My computer is six years old and uses a Nvidia GeForce 4Mx4000.
>
> I suppose that most websites are still designed for 4x3 monitors and, if I
> use a widescreen monitor, I will have large black spaces on both sides of my
> screen.
>
> Can someone enlighten me? Buy a 19" 4x3 or a 22" widescreen monitor?