LCD Flat panel, 17" with .26 dot or 19" with .29?

[techwanabe]

Title says it - if there were a choice, which look the best? Some have commented that the 19" LCD looks "blurrier" with the larger dot pitch.

I'm looking at the Dell free upgrade - the 19-inch sounds like a no brainer, but some have commented on the dot pitch size. Even a 17" would be bigger in screen area than my current Samsung 753DF...

What do ya think?

 

[techwanabe]

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[Tiamat]

some say that at 19" you pretty much want DVI otherwise you get quality issues. I cant refute or back that statement up. Myself, I would get teh 17" simply because its the same working area, and less screendoor effect - ie, i wont see the individual pixels from 2 -3 feet away.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: techwanabe
Title says it - if there were a choice, which look the best? Some have commented that the 19" LCD looks "blurrier" with the larger dot pitch.

Interesting. I've wondered that myself, after seeing that both 17" and 19" LCD panels all seem to have a max of 1280x1024 res, thus making the 19" models actually worse from a detail/dot-pitch perspective. In fact I believe that they are slightly worse than even most 19" CRTs in terms of dot-pitch. I couldn't stand that, kind of like a 15" monitor with .31 DP or something horrid like that. I wouldn't even mind a decent 14-15" LCD, iff it had an ultra-high-resolution screen, like 200 DPI or something nifty like that. It would be like reading a book or laser printout.

 

[AnnoyedGrunt]

Well, I used to run 1280x1024 on a 17" CRT (so that's more like a 16" LCD) and I thought it was very easy to read the text.

I am currently running a 19" CRT @ 1600x1200, so for me there would be no reason to go for a 19" @ 1280x1024. IMO, that's too coarse a resolution for that size of a monitor.

However, for other people, it might be a different story.

If I were getting a LCD I'd have to find one that could handle 1600x1200

-D'oh!