From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 14:43:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434B61065671 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:43:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4DC8FC1C for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:43:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 17108 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2008 14:43:36 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 29 Jul 2008 14:43:36 -0000 Message-ID: <488F2CAF.50703@telenix.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:43:59 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sam Fourman Jr." References: <20080729005144.GA67405@thought.org> <11167f520807281913l2f8bf1a3r54ce401194e4c25a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <11167f520807281913l2f8bf1a3r54ce401194e4c25a@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: whatkind of 19" LCD display?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:43:37 -0000 -----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-----