[ILUG] TFT Monitors (Slightly OT)

[David Jamison]

> 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)
>
Now that I think about it Id prefer to have a two smaller monitor setup 
which I could fix to the wall above the desk.  I have this setup at work 
whereby I can drag windows oops panes from one screen to the other this 
is handy for having say a spreadsheet of tests on one screen and the app 
under test on the other.  The other cool thing this can do is switch the 
monitor from one pc to another so in this setting each screen displays 
for just one pc.  I think this is called twin head? I vaguely remember 
seeing this mentioned in Linux Format Magazine so there must be a Linux 
implementation around.   The monitors we have in work (NEC I think) has 
a button to press to move from pc1 to pc2 is there some cunning way that 
this switching can be done via software so any monitor could be used?

D