Princetion VL1916 - SXGA, but not with DVI

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I bought a VL1916 at Costco about a month ago. I was planning on
ordering a new machine which finally got here, and thought a big LCD
screen would be a nice add-on. The big selling points for me were
1)size 2) resolution and 3) digital input. I had been running this
thing on the old machine (analog) and it was OK, but you could
sometimes see problems with small grey letters on a white background.
I figured the DVI card in the new machine would fix it, since I had
seen a similar problem disappear on someone else's monitor when the
DVI cable they had to special-order came in.

Plugged it in today & noticed that the screen looked like someone was
running a vacuum cleaner in the next room. Dropping the resolution
from the native 1280 x 1024 to 1024 x 768 fixed it, so I thought it
might be a cable problem. Called tech support, and the guy there said
that it would only do 1024 x 768 in DVI. That's nowhere on the box,
and I can't find it anywhere on the inside materials, either. This
dork felt like it was no big deal that it won't actually work as
advertised (1280 x 1024, DVI). I think Costco will take it back. I'm
going to ditch this thing next week & see what I can find instead.
Whatever it is, it won't be these losers.

Princeton blows.

 

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Princeton disagrees with your comment. I'm thinking about purchasing
the same monitor myself and asked them if DVI does not support
1280x1024. This was their response.

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Thank you for choosing Princeton Graphics or Sylvania.

The monitor *DOES* support 1280 X 1024. That is the monitor's native
resolution. The article in the Internet is inaccurate.

Should you require further assistance with your Princeton or Sylvania
monitor, please feel free to send another message. Your comments and
suggestions are welcome.
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spammahamma@yahoo.com (No spammage) wrote in message news:<8935cf7e.0407221355.18dfefe5@posting.google.com>...
> I bought a VL1916 at Costco about a month ago. I was planning on
> ordering a new machine which finally got here, and thought a big LCD
> screen would be a nice add-on. The big selling points for me were
> 1)size 2) resolution and 3) digital input. I had been running this
> thing on the old machine (analog) and it was OK, but you could
> sometimes see problems with small grey letters on a white background.
> I figured the DVI card in the new machine would fix it, since I had
> seen a similar problem disappear on someone else's monitor when the
> DVI cable they had to special-order came in.
>
> Plugged it in today & noticed that the screen looked like someone was
> running a vacuum cleaner in the next room. Dropping the resolution
> from the native 1280 x 1024 to 1024 x 768 fixed it, so I thought it
> might be a cable problem. Called tech support, and the guy there said
> that it would only do 1024 x 768 in DVI. That's nowhere on the box,
> and I can't find it anywhere on the inside materials, either. This
> dork felt like it was no big deal that it won't actually work as
> advertised (1280 x 1024, DVI). I think Costco will take it back. I'm
> going to ditch this thing next week & see what I can find instead.
> Whatever it is, it won't be these losers.
>
> Princeton blows.