My new COOL work monitor

[mitchelt]

I love my new company....they got me a DELL P1690 monitor to work on.

What's so special about that....it's a 24" Wide Format Trinitron!!!!

Whoo Hoo!!!

 

[Xray]

Its to big to stick in your pocket!

 

[Shagga]

Don't give up though! Give it a go, it might fit!

😉

 

[The Stigenator]

yeah, I got one of those SONY W900 Monitors on my other desk.. Its really cool. We got quite a few of those here..
I actually took a spare that no one was using. Its cool.. run it at

1920.1080 and it will be cool.. provided your system supports it.

 

[mitchelt]

"The_good_guy", I think it's pretty safe to say that the system can handle 1920x1080, the monitor his hooked up to a:

Dell Precision® WorkStation 420
- P3-866
- 768MB Ram
- Elsa Synergy II

Ok, there is one BAD!! thing....the Hard drive needs to be replaced so I have to work on a Laptop till early next week. AHHHH!!!!!

 

[Prodigy^]

1920x1080 is almost 2:1......why run at that kinda res?

 

[RSI]

Yeah why such a resolution? Take the others for example, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200... 1600x1200...

So why not something like 1920x1440?

 

[Windogg]

CAD, graphics design, or animation? Those monitors are sweet and the systems they are attached to is nothing to sneeze at. I just a started transition our graphics people to dual monitors.

Windogg

 

[PowerJoe]

Prodigiy^ and RSI:

Standard monitors have a 4:3 ratio. Therefore you use 4:3 ratio resoultions, like 1600X1200 (1600 X 3/4 = 1200)

Wide-format monitors have a 16:9 ratio, and must use 16:9 resolutions, like 1920X1080 (1920 * 9/16 = 1080)

-PJ

 

[arthurb1]

Same reason you get black bars when you watch a theatre format or "letterbox" movie on a normal TV. 🙂

 

[Soccerman]

yeah it's better to have more area, and for some reason, we humans like more horizontal space then verticle. Dual monitors does nearly the same thing though.

the best part of this is, I could play DVD's on it full screen!

In any case, the monitor driver should take care of the res problem right? I don't know this for sure, so that's why I'm asking..

in any case, 1920X1080 yields more pixels then 1600X1200, however it doesn't beat the 2000Xwhatever res. 1920X1080 is the max res that the HDTV standard supports if you were wondering.

 

[randomlinh]

you lucky SOB 😛 I'm stuck here watchin DVD's at home on a 17" CTX while you sit at work watching DVD's on a sony widescreen 🙂