Re: Monitor dimensions

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:00:48 GMT, "HEMI-Powered" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote:

David J Taylor added these comments in the current discussion du
jour ...

David, please take a quick look at the reply I just made to
John Bean. In a nutshell, I'm very confused as to whether I
can or cannot choose a 4:3 aspect ratio. I understand that a
LCD monitor displays its highest quality when used at its
native resolution, but 1920 x anything is WAY too large, all
of my pictures would look like postage stamps.

Well, you would need software which takes your images and
resamples them when displaying them - the Windows Picture and
FAX Viewer will do this. So if you have a 4:3 image (1024 x
768 pixels, say), the software would resample the image to
1600 x 1200 for display, and leave the black bands on either
side as the monitor's 1.6:1 aspect ratio is different to your
images 1.333:1. As you say, just like your HDTV looking at a
1024 x 768 PC.

David, Puleeze! You know that I have software to resample my
images permanently, but that is about the most incredibly stupid
thing I could possibly think of to do. Besides destroying the
quality of some 50,000 JPGs. That isn't what you said, of
course,so I will now say that there is no point in using the
Windows Picture and FAX viewer since a) I think it is trash, b)
it has extremely limited editing capability, and c) that would
still leave me with a gigantic libary of images that are useless.

I'm not angry at your or John, of course, I just refuse to
believe just yet that what I want to do is impossible. I will
readily accept black bands IF Windows will ask my ATI card to ask
the 244T if it supports a 4:3 resolution. Please do not be
insulted, but there's a hundred million PC owners out there who
sooner or later will wind up with one of the better mousetrap
monitors. There would be an outcry heard into outer space if they
found out that all their lifetime's worth of scans and digital
pictures are unusuable. Mr. and Mrs. America don't get into this
NG, they're into P & S mode where they don't know anything at all
about aspect ratios nor do they care. All they DO care about is
taking pictures of their kids or a vacation and getting some
prints made at Meijer.

I'm starting to get cranked up and I don't want to alienate you
or John Bean with my irrational thoughts when the whole thing may
be a no-brainer - I simply call Samsung and ask. Thanks again,
and have a great Sunday, what's left of it!

I have a Samsung 245 wide screen 24" HD monitor, and I can tell you a few things
about it...

First, normally you must run it at native resolution, 1920 x 1200, a ratio of
1.6.

Since it's screen size is 52 x 32, this is the same ratio, and will give you
non-distorted pictures.

Other resolutions available with my Nvida 7600 card are:

1600x1200 1.333

1600x1900 1.777

1280x1024 1.25

1280x960 1.333

Note that all of these other resolutions DO NOT match the size ratio of the
screen, at 1.6, and therefore distort the image.

There is NO size adjustment on these kinds of monitors... you cannot create
black bands at the sides, for example, unless you had some kind of video card
that could do that, but that is not what you want...

I find this monitor great for photo editing, because I can move all of the tools
off of the photo to work, instead of constantly shuffling around. It's like a
big 19" with an extra 5 inchs to work!

DON'T WORRY about the aspect ratio of the monitor, your photos will display
correctly when it is set to native resolution, and of course the PHOTO will
display with "black bands" when you resize it, if necessary. Everything works
out!

AND if you find the windows a bit small, you can go in and make the window fonts
bigger - I did. And if I can see it with my old eyes, you can too!

BTW there are 2 inputs, analog and digital - I recomend the digital (buy a new
card if you have to ) the picture is BEAUTIFUL!

.

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