Are there any LCD's yet that run at 1280x960 natively?

[AmdInside]

I have a Dell 20" LCD but I am thinking I would rather have two 18" or 19" LCD's. I didn't go with that in the first place because I hate 1280x1024. I was hoping that there would be some 1280x960 resolution LCD's by now

 

[0roo0roo]

why bother? lcds actually do 1240x1024 without distortion. thats a crt issue.

 

[Accord99]

CRTs generally have a 4:3 aspect ratio, which means 1280x1024 resolution (which 5:4) causes geometric distortions. However, 1280x1024 LCDs have a 5:4 aspect ratio so there is no distortion.

 

[henryay]

Ok, i'm confused, so, can you set the resolution higher than 1280x1024 in windows or is that max? Or is the 1280x1024 referring to how many pixels are on the LCD physically?

I'm about to get a LCD monitor myself...

 

[EdipisReks]

windows can handle whatever resolution your monitor can go to, but generally if you set above 1600x1200 you either have to change registry settings or use something like powerstrip. with an LCD, the native resolution is the actual physical value of how many pixels there are on the screen. if the native rez of an LCD is 1024x768, then there are 786432 pixels on the screen.

 

[0roo0roo]

actually most new drivers/vid cards can go past 1600x1200 now


and yea, lcds have actual pixels on the screen, so u gotta use the native res or it'll look like sh*t. think about it, u can't divide a pixel into fractions when u go to other resolutions that don't divide evenlly(none do). so they kinda blur/filter to get it to sorta work. ick.

thats the suckage of lcd.

 

[henryay]

Ok, kind of offtopic, but if a monitor has a faster response time, doesn't that kind of mean a faster refresh rate? (instead of 60hz)

 

[Viper96720]

6ohz on an lcd is different from a crt. LCDs don't scan like a crt does.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: henryay
Ok, kind of offtopic, but if a monitor has a faster response time, doesn't that kind of mean a faster refresh rate? (instead of 60hz)

Refresh rate and response time = apples and oranges.

Refresh rate is how many times/second the screen data is updated. Dependant on monitor & vidcard.
Response time is how quickly the physical pixels themselves respond to the on/off signal (rise/fall times respectively) - a current "fast" LCD boasts a 16ms response with a 4/12 rise-fall split.

Gaming on less than a 16ms will look ugl3h.

- M4H

 

[EdipisReks]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Gaming on less than a 16ms will look ugl3h.

- M4H

20-25 is fine, in my experience, though 25 is really pushing it.

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: EdipisReks

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Gaming on less than a 16ms will look ugl3h.

- M4H

20-25 is fine, in my experience, though 25 is really pushing it.

Yeah I agree, mine is 20ms and find it very good....the only annoying thing is not being able to use resolutions between 1024x768 and 1280x1024....my monitor doesn't support them

 

[Chadder007]

I have a 15 inch LCD that runs 1600x1200 natively. Its on a laptop though.
Then again it doesn't have as good a viewable area as other LCD's....you have to look fairly straight ahead to it.

 

[canadianpsycho]

Laptop LCDs are designed that way for privacy's sake.