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If you look at these monitors that are 21" atnewegg, they are ALL over 800$!! from 800-1000$ I am just curious why a non-widescreen monitor cost so much compared to other monitors of similar size that are widescreen. Any ideas? I have never used a widescreen...
Started by jasondavis on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
The best buy is the HP on this and forbids non-widescreen....
The 21.3 inch ones are very expensive.
They all have 1600x1200 resolution.
widescreen there are 4 panels: 21.3 inch S-PVA, 20.0 inch PVA, 20.0 inch S-IPS, and 21.3 inch S-IPS.
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I connected a Samsung SyncMaster P2270 (widescreen) to a Dell Dimension 3000 that uses the integrated Intel 82865G for graphics. The problem is that there are no widescreen resolutions to choose from. The latest Intel driver is used (14.17) and it is ...
Started by Jonas Elfström on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller Supported Video Modes
Intel, 75 2D 2048 x 1536 32 60 2D
Can your Dell Dimension 3000 do widescreen?
Now that's a different buy..
82865G do widescreen?
In a word, yes.
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At my office we are planning to deploy widescreen LCD monitors in portrait mode. We bought one for testing (Samsung T220 unpivotable, so we adapted a pivotable support for it) and it doesn't have a good viewable angle in this mode, despite the specifications...
Started by Jader Dias on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
I wish the 4:3 form factors were more common (and cheaper .
Test out a TN screen with pivot ability out of the box are 'widescreen' these days...
Two options:
Buy an IPS LCD (expensive).
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It's almost gotten to the point where you can't buy a conventional (4:3) monitor anymore. Pretty much everything is widescreen. This is fine for watching movies or TV, but is it good or bad for programming?
My initial thoughts on the issue are that widescreens...
Started by DanM on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I don't with have 19" widescreen monitors, and usually one or both have been rotated into the vertical position to move tool panels to any side of ....
This is why you buy wide-screen monitors that you can orient vertically for your desktop.
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I just switched from two 19" monitors running 1280 X 1024 to two 22" monitors running 1680 X 1050. If I run typical apps full screen now, they tend to have a lot of unused white space.
Examples:
I'm typing into Firefox right now, and even with the sidebar...
Started by DanM on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
I suppose if all your doing is browsing the web, not many sites are catering to widescreen yet existing software to better use a widescreen monitor", when really you should be thinking How can (It's really not my area, but AHK serves my....
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Because widescreen is not fixed :/
Started by Redboy on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at seriouszone):
I'm just not happy issues are the buggy widescreen and profile corruption bug, the latter actually happened to my twice, just like with any game you buy from Steam....
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So, with wide screen LCD's and the prevelence of other LCD's coming into the gaming realm I felt there needed to be a nice thread made.
In this thread I am also going to try to convince you want to buy a widescreen LCD, and to avoid all 17" and 19" "normal...
Started by ajrettke on
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by 19 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at overclockers):
I own an Acer AL1916W, a 19" Widescreen monitor, native res of 1440x9....
The widescreen is just better.
Unloaded until i become a multi millionaire, i think i'll stick, and there is a world of difference .
Peace.
On Widescreen Gming.
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It's official: Widescreen monitors suck
I've waited several years before I made it official, but now I can say it beyond any doubt: Widescreen monitors suck big time sucking suckage for most PC uses. They are good for watching movies and playing some...
Started by El Greco on
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by 28 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at randi):
Most good video, and websites, code, video, etc.....
Degrees and use them for reading and writing.
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Is it just me, or did they not say in the Foxtel HD blogs that they would make most channels widescreen by the end of the year (specifically using Sky News and Arena as examples)?
It's now mid-October... and The Weather Channel is really the only one ...
Started by ChrisCh on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at dtvforum):
I hope so i can't believe that sky news Australia still isn't widescreen,here they are going on about how great digital is and their news channel isn't widescreen,part of a proper digital service is to at least have their news service in....
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All of the talk today about 4K and technological advancements in cinema being followed by home theater advancements got me wondering:
"widescreen" formats became popular in cinema around the 1950s or so, yet it took nearly half a century for TVs to finally...
Started by Bryan on
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by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stevehoffman):
Until you could buy films to build up to develop a "luxury" quality of hardware....
It was only broadcast and no one really cared.
Not to mention the few stations willing to invest the money on sending out separate widescreen that disposable.
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