Which monitor is better?

[Cycloner]

I have been lookiing for the highest quality 20" crt monitor availble with the best specs. I'm not sure if these are the best available but I found these two monitors that interested me. One is from viewsonic and the other is from Samsung. I was wondering which of these two monitors is the better one. If any one knows of a better crt monitor let me know.


Viewsonic P225fB - 2048x1536 @ 79HZ .24mm dot pitch

http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/crtmonitors/proseries/p225fb/

Samsung 1100DF - 2048x1536 @ 75Hz .20mm dot pitch

http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc...2c_product_detail.jsp?prod_id=CF21GSBU



I got one other question that has been bothing me. I'm having trouble understandint the 'Dot Pitch'. From what I understand its the size of each pixel right? Well what doesn't make sense is both monitors I listed above have the same viewable area(20") and same max resolution. BUT both have different dot pitch values. So how can both monitors have the same viewble area and resolution? For example shouldn't the samsung monitor either a)have a smaller viewable area or b) have a higher viewable resolution becuase of the smaller pixel size?



Hopefully some one could explain this.

Thanks!

 

[Cycloner]

Wow found this post on page 9 of the forums in only a few hours......

so is there anyone that can help me please? I would apreciate it.

Thanks!

 

[xtknight]

Samsung lists a horizontal dot pitch instead of a diagonal, or something along those lines. I believe they are really both the same.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Okay, dot pitch = the distance in between the pixel, not actually the size of the pixels. And of course, the lowe the DP, the better the resolution. Actually, you know what. How Stuff Works explains it a lot better than me. Check it out.

So far as your monitor choices, it really boils down to which size you want. If you can handle a 22", then grab it. The weight would kill my desk though. Otherwise grab the 21". 🙂
Tas.