Re: XP
- From: "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:36:09 GMT
"Hawkeye23" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:21:38 GMT,<snip>
"pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
linedancer Posted...
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Not sure about the settings for my 17" TFT monitor it recommends
1280x1024 but at the moment I am on the lowest setting 800x600
and I can read everything much better than in the higher settings,
does it really matter what the setting is ?
Yes, (with LCD TFT Flat Screen Monitors) it definitely does matter...
Many thanks for that.All most informative and useful.Can I ask a
couple of extras please.
Yep!
Sorry for the delay in this Reply - I've been a bit pre-occupied with
Playing around with - Errr... I mean testing & Evaluating - some 3D
Drawing/Rendering type stuff.
(1) Does the principle of Native Resolution also apply to laptop
displays.
Yes.
Any LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) has a "Native Resolution" (unlike
a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) Display which has no "Native Resolution"
& can be Set to whatever Resolution you want (subject to the Refresh
rate it can handle)
That's cos the (LCD) Display is made up of a *Discrete* number
of Pixels.
That applies to Laptop LCD Displays just the same as Desktop Monitors.
If so since laptop displays tend to be smaller - say 15" diag -
would the native resolution be more or less.
Well, that all depends...
Yes, most Laptop Displays do tend to be smaller than a typical Desktop
Monitor, so yes, they usually have a lower number of Pixels (both
Horizontally & Vertically).
They were often about 1024 x 768
But actually, many Laptop Displays these days also tend to have
*smaller* Pixels, so they can actually now have a higher number of
Pixels on them.
& there are a lot more "WideScreen" laptop Displays around, which tend
to have a wider Aspect Ratio.
1024 x 768 (& also 640 480, & 800 x 600 & 1600 x 1200), which are the
typical Resolutions used by CRT Monitors & earlier Laptops, are all
4:3 Aspect Ratio - the Width is 1.333 times the Height.
But a typical LCD (Desktop) Monitor has a Resolution of 1280 x 1024,
which is actually 5:4 Aspect Ratio - the width is only 1.25 times the
Height, so it's relatively tall & narrow, compared to 1024 x 768
(incidentally 35 mm Film has a (Wider) Aspect ratio of 3:2 -the Width
is 1.5 times the Height.
& a WideScreen Display has an Aspect ratio of (up to) 16:9 - the Width
is 1.777 times the Height, so on a Laptop that would often be something
like 1280 x 720, or 1366 x 768 or a 16:10 Aspect Ratio - Width 1.6 times
the Height, like 1440 x 900
Those are Wider than a normal Display, but (noticeably) not as Tall
(High), so though they may seem OK for watching things like DVD Movies
on, for general Computer type use, they aren't actually as practical
as a Display which is taller, but all the Marketing Hype of "Wide
Screen" means that more & more people ask for, or expect to find a
"Wide Screen" on a Laptop these days.
... How can you find out what it is.
The Manufacturer's Specification will (or should) tell you.
There are prolly also various Utilities which might be able to tell
you, but you would need to be careful not to just be reading off the
Resolution that is Set in the Graphics Adapter/Card Properties,
rather than the Native Resolution of the Display itself.
Have a look at Pages like this, for a bit more Info about the
different Resolutions that various LCD Displays come in...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXGA
(2)A vaguer question about the relation between the resolution of<snip>
the display/the printer and the web page or whatever is coming into
your pc/laptop.
Oh oh!...
That's a whole 'nother ballgame & a completely different (& very
involved!) subject.
The relationship (or otherwise!) between what's seen on the *Screen*
& what comes out on Paper is something that has lots of things to be
taken into account - as you (& many other people) have found out, when
trying to Print out Pages from a Web Browser...
It causes no end of Confuzzlement, (in all sorts of ways, for lots
of people).
If I get a chance sometime, I'll Reply to it in another Reply.
HTH
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pmj
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