Re: My old 21" CRT monitor died
- From: Paul Furman <paul-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:13:28 -0700
David J Taylor wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:
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OK well I bought the 26" planar and it's pretty darn spectacular (wow,
what a great size to view & edit photos!) but there are faint
flickering waves at about 10 degrees from horizontal at the highest
resolution in dark areas. Hmm, I just got off the phone with Planar &
they are sending a new one. It's not unbearable so I'll still use it
till the replacement arrives. I hope it is a bad unit & not my lame
video card :-) It flickers faintly at full res, not at the next
smaller resolution and flickers worse at the next smaller
resolution... when I described that they said they'd send me a new
one.
I would be interested to know if the new one is any better, Paul.
One defect I have seen on many LCD monitors is a slight tendency to "dot crawl" in some parts of the display. It was sufficiently bad on one display I had to take it back for an exchange. Mind you, the 1920 x 1200 resolution would be my next step up, so the PX2611W 26" Widescreen LCD Monitor is a candidate.
Does your video card cope OK? I am driving two monitors right now (1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1024) so I am uncertain if my card would cope with the extra pixels! <G>
I seems to work fine except the subtle white shimmering waves. With the old 21" 1200x1600 CRT set up it had the annoying behavior that whenever waking the laptop from sleep, all the icons & windows would shuffle over to the little laptop & back, completely re-sorting & resizing (argh!) but that doesn't happen now. The laptop is a Sony VGN FZ2850 which I chose because it was about the only thing with decent specs I could find on the shelf, specifically a decent video card. When my old laptop died, I didn't want to wait a week or more for a custom box.
This is really fantastic for viewing & editing photos. Man, what a difference. Nice for DVDs too, I watched one on blu-ray last night.
When I called tech support, I was prepared to be told I needed a DVI output & a new video card which would probably have been impossible.
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