Re: SED
- From: "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:59:37 GMT
"Xocyll" <Xocyll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
>>"Xocyll"
>>> "McGrandpa"
>> nettiquete snip
>>>>>>
>>>>>>LOL! Ok, so you're the size of an Ooompa Loompa? ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Amusingly enough I read this message just after watching Charlie and
>>>>> the
>>>>> Chocolate Factory (borrowed from my sister.)
>>>>
>>>>I'd just bought and watched that myself. An older guy at work looke up
>>>>at
>>>>one of the new hands and just started laughing. "Hey, whats so funny
>>>>about
>>>>Freddy?" "You seen that Willy Wonka movie? Freddy's IN it, he's an
>>>>Ooompa
>>>>Loompa!" Know what? Dead ringer for Deep Roy! Sheesh! :)
>>>
>>> Oh my. Well now you know what to get him for christmas (if there's an
>>> office christmas thingy.) Then you can spend january asking him to sing
>>> the songs. :)
>>
>>LOL! We think it's humorous. HE isn't laughing at all :)
>
> I can just imagine.
> Heh, I wonder how many kids will see him and point?
>
> <snip>
>>>>> Admittedly an LCD or two would free up a fair bit of space for other
>>>>> things and I might even get one as my next monitor.
>>>>> If nothing else it would be better for reading usenet and such on.
>>>>
>>>>Well hang on a bit now, don't get hasty. The Outsider came up with some
>>>>stuff that merited a much deeper look into what's actually going on with
>>>>TFT
>>>>LCD flat panels. One thing is sure- you don't want to spend much money
>>>>on
>>>>one. Doesn't matter which or what cause they'll burn out, and likely
>>>>much
>>>>sooner than a CRT. 20,000 hours estimated. If you do get one now it
>>>>will
>>>>likely last the couple years till SED gets going :)
>>>
>>> I've been considering a ViewSonic VA902B as being the best convergence
>>> of price, speed and contrast, since it's an 8ms 1280x1024 for all of
>>> $359+tax CDN and has pretty good contrast.
>>> Everything else available locally is either slower, has worse contrast
>>> or a substantially higher price.
>>
>>Not a bad monitor. It appears that ALL of Viewsonics current models are
>>8bpp and display 16.7 million colors. unless that's a trick of wording.
>>They do not say their panels will display the full 16.7 million colors.
>>They do say all of them support 16.7m. but that can be supported via
>>dithering, like mine.
>>
>>You can't find a 700:1 / 300 bright 8ms response 19" for under $400US?
>
> Possibly, but i'm not looking for a $400 US monitor, i'm looking more
> for a $400 CDN monitor.
> The whole 16.7 vs 16.2 isn't really relevant to me.
> I used to play games in 16bit mode instead of 32, and when I got this
> card I could see no difference between 32 bit color on it in Gothic and
> 16bit color on the voodoo3 2000 in 16bit.
>
> The website listing for this particular one doesn't seem to say either
> way.
> http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/aseries/va902b/
>
> I'm much more concerned with lack of ghosting type artifacts and having
> a decent contrast. Buying top of the line (or close) for something
> that's not going to last 10 years+ makes no sense to me, especially
> when they're already annouoncing/selling 2ms LCDs now.
>
> I want something good enough that will last a couple years or so, so I
> can stop using this old 17" crt.
> My 22" died and even though the local guys found out exactly what's
> wrong, they can't fix it because NEC won't sell them the part.
> I'll be damned if i'll take or ship it to Toronto or Montreal to an
> official NEC repair place, pay official NEC rates and then go get it/
> pay for shipping back afterwards - it's just not worth it for a monitor
> I paid ~250 for refurbished.
> I won't ever be buying another NEC product though if that's how NEC
> treats users of their products.
that's terrible. That's exactly why I haven't bought a ViewSonic CRT since
1990. I know what part (a single little chip) crapped out. But, "sorry
sir, it's obsolete, it isn't even made any more!" At least it did get fixed
the first two times it popped. The third time, no more chip. The whole
industry does that. They aren't like the auto industry which has to make
certain parts available for 17 years. In the computer industry, 5 years on
obsoleted chips.
Hey, I still have some 8080a's and TMS 5504 IO chips with some eight byte
static ram chips here...heh!
But I see where you're coming from with the need for a gaming monitor. You
will probably enjoy that 902 more than you think :)
McG.
>
> Xocyll
> --
> I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
> a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
> Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
> FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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