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Matthew L. Martin (nothere@notnow.never) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> > I've been down this road before a lot, and I'd go nuts looking at the
> > fuzzy image that must result from 2048x1536 on a monitor that can only
> > resolve about 1300x975.
> >
> > There's a reason that monitor only costs $300.
> >
>
> My expirence is in violent disagreement with your calculations. I have
> no problems with 320 14 pt characters and 4 sets of xterm borders in the
> 2048x1536 setting. The characters are very sharp, if tiny.
I'm not sure what font you are using, but I don't have any that have 6
pixel wide character cells when rendered at "14 points". I have to drop
to 7 point fixed pitch fonts to get that width. Also, a 14-point font
results in 5.14 lines/inch vertically (with no space between lines), or
only 55 or so lines of text on a 18" visible diagonal monitor. 113 rows
means you need about a 6-7 point font. Something tells me you use that
setup for watching output from programs, and not for editing text. 
Regardless, you still can't resolve 1920x1080 at full resolution, and it
*would* look fuzzy to me. I had headaches for the first week I got my
17" 1280x1024 LCD, and again when I got the the 20" 1600x1200 LCD. The
image was so much sharper than before that it was almost to the point of
annoyance, but it's now the standard for what I expect from a monitor.
> Additionally, I have two other, larger (22" and 21" ) Viewsonic monitors
> that do provide visually sharper characters in 2048x1563 mode than the P95f+
This makes sense and proves my point. They are physically larger but
provide the same shadow mask of about 0.26mm average. They get between
150 and 250 more resolvable pixels per horizontal line. And, you pay
for it...double the price of the 19" CRT, even though only about 35% more
glass is used.
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Jeff Rife |
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Archived from groups: alt.tv.tech.hdtv (More info?)
Jeff Rife wrote:
> Matthew L. Martin (nothere@notnow.never) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
>
>>>I've been down this road before a lot, and I'd go nuts looking at the
>>>fuzzy image that must result from 2048x1536 on a monitor that can only
>>>resolve about 1300x975.
>>>
>>>There's a reason that monitor only costs $300.
>>>
>>
>>My expirence is in violent disagreement with your calculations. I have
>>no problems with 320 14 pt characters and 4 sets of xterm borders in the
>>2048x1536 setting. The characters are very sharp, if tiny.
>
>
> I'm not sure what font you are using, but I don't have any that have 6
> pixel wide character cells when rendered at "14 points". I have to drop
> to 7 point fixed pitch fonts to get that width. Also, a 14-point font
> results in 5.14 lines/inch vertically (with no space between lines), or
> only 55 or so lines of text on a 18" visible diagonal monitor. 113 rows
> means you need about a 6-7 point font. Something tells me you use that
> setup for watching output from programs, and not for editing text.
I have the xterms running vi. I'm writing and debuggin code in them.
> Regardless, you still can't resolve 1920x1080 at full resolution, and it
> *would* look fuzzy to me.
Fortunately, you are not me.
> I had headaches for the first week I got my
> 17" 1280x1024 LCD, and again when I got the the 20" 1600x1200 LCD. The
> image was so much sharper than before that it was almost to the point of
> annoyance, but it's now the standard for what I expect from a monitor.
CRTs are much better at having a reasonable result with different
resolutions than LCDs, but you know that.
>>Additionally, I have two other, larger (22" and 21" ) Viewsonic monitors
>>that do provide visually sharper characters in 2048x1563 mode than the P95f+
>
>
> This makes sense and proves my point. They are physically larger but
> provide the same shadow mask of about 0.26mm average. They get between
> 150 and 250 more resolvable pixels per horizontal line. And, you pay
> for it...double the price of the 19" CRT, even though only about 35% more
> glass is used.
>
That's about right, unless you weigh the glass:-)
--
Matthew
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