Re: Ping John Bean & David Taylor: Samsung 24" LCD monitor clarified

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

So, any insights would be appreciated. Again: 1) I apologize
for disputing your superior knowledge, 2) I was under a total
misconception about what the 244T even is, 3) I still don't
know about Windows resolution but will find out soon, and 4)
the task at hand NOW is to find something that supports
multiple resolutions and aspect ratios without distorting the
image; black bars are no biggie. Please just point me in the
right direction, I'll take on the research myself.

Jerry,

I can quite understand - these things are badly explained and
dumbed down even. I also wanted 4:3 and it took me a little
time to find the Dell 2007FP with its 1600 x 1200 pixels.
That's a 12-inch vertical display. From BF's comments, it
sounds as if the 244T is a little taller.

David, when I was back in the Apple ][ days, I met a fellow Apple
user that had a couple of good sayings that apply here in general
and to me in specific:

1) You're no ordinary fool, you're college educated!
2) When you're dumb, you're dumb for a long time!

My mother had this saying I have found to be 100.000% true in my
entire life: "what happens, happens for the best". Now, there's
been time like when I was drafted in the Army that it was a
little hard to see why it was good for me, but it was.

The GOOD thing that this saga has done for me I owe almost
exclusively to you. You made the simple yet profound observation
that you were a dyed in the wool 4:3 man (maybe from your film
days?) UNTIL you got your wide-screen, and now you're at least at
3:2. I've been "fighting" with my Rebel XT by forcing its images
to 4:3 by cropping and I think I need a whack up side the head to
see that I should start NOW to go to 3:2, STOP my 4:3, and get
ready for whatever monitor I eventually buy.

I had a quick look, but I could find no 24-inch monitors which
support 4:3 aspect ratio directly. They all seem to be
widescreen.

Yes, I do appreciate the monitor trickle-down effect it
happens here as well!

David, please see my other reply to you. In short, Samsung isn't
available right now, but I have at least verified that the
244T/245T supports multiple resolutions with or without
distortion, the latter with black bars. What is not quite clear
is if it really does the ones I THINK I want. e.g., Best Buy's
data shows that they support 1024 x 768 but 1280 x 1024, not the
same.

I haven't even taken a peek at a monitor since I bought my 213T
and when I thought I wanted a 244T last winter, I didn't know it
was a wide-screen, so my stubborness compounded my ignorance. I
NOW know from you and from Best Buy that I'm trying to stuff 10
pounds of do-do into a 5 pound bag. NOBODY is making 4:3 anymore
because of digitals at least 3:2 and the number of people who
want to do panos and (apparently) view wide-screen movie DVDs.

So, I have backed WAY, WAY off from my strong stance last night
and will again beg your indulgence for being such a putz. I won't
give you a blow-by-blow when I solve all of this, but I'll
probably post a message to help all the lurkers who may have been
following this. Perhaps my experience will help them avoid my
pain and/or help them to avoid the mental gymnastics required to
go from a lifetime of 4:3 to the New World of 16:10.

And, thanks for the quick check on monitors. My Googling last
night told me the same thing. All the major brands of 24" and
26" true monitors - not the HDTV/monitor combos - are ALL 16:10.
It turns out that everything I looked at also has a native
resolution of 1920 x 1200. What NONE of the web sites list,
though, was the actual screen resolutions that a reasonably
new/good video card can display in Windows.

--
HP, aka Jerry
.

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