> From: Paul > > > On May 16, 3:41 pm, PeterH <peterh5...@rattlebrain.com> wrote: >> On May 16, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Paul wrote: >> >>> Many, if not all, LCD monitors have a single best resolution and >>> frequency. >> >> Many, if not all, monitors of ANY TYPE have a single best resolution >> and frequency, moreso with CRTs than with LCDs, however. > > > > I've usually gotten a very good picture using more than one resolution > on a CRT, but I haven't yet found more than one clean-looking > resolution on an LCD monitor. With an LCD, I think what they do is > cluster a few pixels into one to handle anything less than the maximum > resolution. That makes the view somewhat fuzzy. >
I can second that CRTs seem able to handle different resolutions better. Whenever I have looked at an LCD that is not real close to its native resolution, I have noticed it to be less than sharp. However, there are a set number of hardware pixels, no? And both CRTs and LCDs need to be software herded into displaying less. I used to have a magnifying glass on my desk to look at my old SE30 screens to see the little pixels, I forget why, I recall programming a few things that involved graphics and measuring things... <g> Let me get that old crazy feeling back... mmm.... Try this on your monitors <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Just one pixel</title> </head> <body> <div style="width: 1px; height: 1px; background: #c00;"></div> </body> </html> (Paste into BBEdit (or some text editor) and call it "something.html" and drag file over any modern browser) and take a decko at the red pixel with a magnifying glass. Gee, the pxs are so fine on an LCD! dorayme --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
