[ILUG] TFT Monitors (Slightly OT)

[Michael Watterson]

Diarmuid Bourke wrote:
> Thomas wrote:
>> Conor Wynne wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Conor Daly <
>>> conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 02:28:10PM +0100 or so it is rumoured 
>>>> hereabouts,
>>>> Proinnsias Breathnach thought:
>>>>   
>>>>> Peats are doing a 19" widescreen - same res with DVI/VGA for €179
>>>>> currently - can't go too far wrong with that.
>>>>>       
>>>> Personally, I find this trend towards widescreen pretty annoying.  
>>>> Gonna
>>>> have to turn them to portrait so I can use them effectively...
>>>>     
>>>
>>>
>>> Couldn't agree more. Portait is the way to go.
>>>   
>> And in most of the cases, you have enough height on your desk, it's 
>> more the width that you might be constraint.
>>
>
> I think the reason widescreen has become popular is not just down to 
> dvd widescreen movies, 
No it's only WS movies and using same panels for many TVs and Monitors.
> but due to OS sidebars which seem to be catching on. I don't mind the 
> whole widescreen issue though as it gives me more hand resting room on 
> my laptop. If you're seriously against them, get two monitors and use 
> xrandr.
>
> my 2c
>
WS makes 1200 line and higher laptops have too big a screen.

You need at least 1200 lines for decent A4 PDF viewing.  A 1600 x1600 
screen would be nice. Or a 1200x 1600 Portrait mode laptop.

Make a 1600x 1200 screen be WS (1920x1200) and you have a minimum of 17" 
screen. My 1600x1200 is 15.4"

1920x 1080 (actual 16:9) is worse as you are losing vital height.

The stupid things don't even display 25i or 50p HDTV properly anyway... 
being optimised for US market.

( original VGA = progressive version of NTSC.)

I'd like all WS TVs & projectors to  be 1920 x 1152 minimum  and  
ideally  1920x1200 to suit  PCs also.  (1152 = 2x 576, anything else on 
rescale of Euro SDTV is  poorer quality, letter box 1200 to 1152, 960 or 
1080 depending on source video)






-- 
Mike