Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:43:59 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: whatkind of 19" LCD display?? Message-ID: <488F2CAF.50703@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <11167f520807281913l2f8bf1a3r54ce401194e4c25a@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080729005144.GA67405@thought.org> <11167f520807281913l2f8bf1a3r54ce401194e4c25a@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? > > I have several (6) Samsung SyncMaster 941BW monitors > I am very Happy with them I'd never purchased any 19" displays. About 5 years back, i was in the market for 3 2-" units, and like I usually do with any major $ investments, I investigated the applicable specs, then compared prices underneath that. At that time, the 20" LCDs from Dell were the best buy, purchasing them from Ebay made it also a *very* good deal. The only problem there is, the little group of folks selling those Dell monitors had organized several shell-games on Ebay, running some *very* easy to fall into frauds, so you needed to be really careful. Twice, I ran into the game of getting dome shill to run the price of a monitor I was interested way past what I wanted to pay, then when I let the deal walk away from me, the con-people wrote and tried to convince me that i'd won the "Second chance" purchase, and that I'd obligated myself to pay the price they'd bid it up to. I complained to Ebay, but (as usual) Ebay was deaf about it. It's easy to avoid this, but you need to be aware of the scam, which is still operating today. How do I know? Because one of those 3 20" displays went bad on me 4 weeks ago, and I replaced it with a 24" model. That new model has automatic PiP, too. I really like the Dell, both because of their outstanding contrast and brightness, no dead pixels in any of my LCDs, and the fact that they come with multiple interfaces which are switch selectable from the front panel. The old 20" units had 4 jacks (RCA, S-Video, VGA, and DVI). Really convenient. The new 24" one, beyond being able to run native 1920X1080 for HiDef Video, it's got about 10 different jacks. Looks it up the web, the Dell pages describe it best, and the contrast on that 24" has to be seen to be believed. I actually turned it down! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiPLK8ACgkQz62J6PPcoOnz7QCfTLY9jazfYlcseoP+i71R9C6I hVIAnAzBPlvTS/EspPAPwwJVIKEfg5So =QVya -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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