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HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market
alvin67 writes "Microsoft Evangelist Pete Brown rants about the lack of pixels available in today's LCD screens: 'OK, that's it. I've had it. I want my pixels, damn it! For a while, screen resolution has been going up on our desktop displays. The trend was good, as I've always wanted the largest monitor with the highest DPI that I could afford. I mean, I used to have one of the first hulking 17-inch CRTs on my desk. I later upgraded to a 21-inch job that was so huge, that if you didn't stick it in a corner, it took up the whole desk. It was flat-panel, though and full of pixels. It cost me around $1,100 at the time."
After some years of improvements, we've regressed, in Brown's opinion: "At the rate we were going for a while, we should have had twice or three times the DPI on a 24- or 23-inch screen. But nooo."
Most people use windows, and windows (until W7) did not handle DPI changes with any sense of normality. I've not seen Linux behave nicely either with random changes to DPI (very dependant on having the right fonts installed/etc instead of scaling it on the fly).
OSX on the other hand...
Yes I found out to my cost whilst tweaking my media center for couch computing efficiency. Changing font DPI makes some menus/dialogs/apps totally broken looking