Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:26:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: question about new monitor... Message-ID: <20080729220949.X8178@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20080730014633.GB47738@thought.org> References: <20080730011634.GA47738@thought.org> <20080730014633.GB47738@thought.org>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:16:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: >> i'm on newegg.com that has a whole slew of options for narrowing the >> field. >> >> q's: is a higher contrast ratio better than a lower ratio? Generally, yes. Contrast ratio in a display is analogous to dynamic range in audio. >> is the widescreen better than the std? --i think widescreen is >> 16x9, standard is 4x3. Correct about the aspect ratios. As for "better", it depends on whether your graphics card can run at those resolutions. > I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20" i can get widescreen > with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. 1280x1024 is actually a 5:4 aspect, but people use it on a 4:3 display. I'm doing that right now :^) But if you send it to a 16:9 display it will probably appear "stretched" unless you adjust the display so it's effectively not a widescreen display anymore. Every LCD or DLP or plasma display has a native resolution, which is the actual number of pixels in its imaging device. Nowadays they all have internal scan converters so that you could, for instance, send your 1280x1024 to a display of some other native resolution and get a picture, subject to some limits (e.g., I doubt any 1024x768 LCD monitor would display a 3200x2400 signal). But it will always look best at the native resolution anyway, so you're on the right track. > IFF xorg know what kind of beast this is:-) Well, yeah, that's the elephant in the room, isn't it? -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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