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Wide Panel LCD Displays
fredz writes "EE Times has an interesting article on wide-aspect-ratio LCD displays. Samsung is adding a 24-inch diagonal display (20" W x 12.7" H). This is about the same height as a conventional 20" monitor, but a lot wider. There are also some smaller (and presumably cheaper) 17-inch diagonal (about 14"W x 10"H) displays.
" The SGI diagonal (18") is what I've been using for nearly a year now. LCDs are much easier on my eyes, but ya gotta accept the resolution you're given or things get yucky. The aspect ratio is interesting... I like having two comfortably wide browser windows side by side without overlapping. Now when Linux can play letterboxed DVDs ...
I have found exactly two uses for color:
1) marking keywords
2) looking at pictures of peoples kids--and I do that rately enough that it's not important; I can use another machine when it comes up.
Monochrome isn't just a little sharper; it's a lot sharper. There's no mask to get in the way.
However, I"ll admit to apprciating a slight improvement when I went to four bit greyscale on my powerbook a few years ago. 2 bit really wans't enough, and four would have been silly. But I'd generally prefer the sharper screen to the color.
hawk
Think about your eyes, you actually see far wider than you can see in height, try it and see.
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Vic, Australia
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When I worked coding on an Air Traffic Control system doing the Radar display I had the sort of screen space that made developing a breeze.
Connected to one box were:
1) 21" Trinitron monitor
And the best of the bunch
2) A 2048x2048 30" Flat Screen by Sony. A real beast of a monitor.
Requiring a £30,000 graphics box (Barco) plugged into an RS6000.
6 normal size emacs windows on the 30" and the app running on the 21". One day I shall have such riches again. I've never suffered from such information overload. Magic stuff
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Yes, and we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for our pesky craniums! :)
;)
But Seriously, i wonder if our eyes actually percieve an equal 360' FOV or if they actually work in 16:9 widescreen. As I sit here now, I can see both my forehead and a little of my cheeks (and no, I'm not a fat b@stard!) with clear space to either side ie: I can't see my ears. That must be a pretty equal Field of Vision; so to optimise our eyes potential, we need to tear off our cheeks and smash in our craniums
(or not)
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Than having rays shot at your face for 12-18 hours a day. With all the leaps in technology over the last 20 years it's about time that we get past CRT's and the basic architecture we use as a standard today. As soon as the costs come down a +20" LCD display is tops on my list, for me and for my kids. I fear that is another 20 or 30 years, the medical community will come back and say that all the exposure to monitors causes cancer or something like that.
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.