[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?
Rick, I am really bothered by loosing still more lines of text with these wide screen beasties. The present OS's are like Stephen Kings Langoliers. They eat away at available screen real estate. Any way to turn them 90 degrees and also rotate the windows display screen so that a full page can be displayed? Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen some multi screen shacks. In fact, I think one ham has 5 screens for various functions, some of which are dual screens with one computer. My idea was to keep things a bit simpler so I wanted only one screen that was at the right distance for my limited eyesight accommodation. In fact, I have some computer glasses which have a large upper area set to the screen distance and the lower for reading distance. It makes a huge difference for me compared to trying to see the screen with the center of my trifocals. Progressive lenses have a very small sweet spot for a given distance so I have not gone that route either. My 22 Samsung 225BW works well with either Windows XP or Vista as long as you insure that the screen is connected to and turned on when you boot up the computer as it has to detect and set the screen parameters. Otherwise, it can look as bad as it does with Linux OS and that is completely unacceptable to me. Other advantages of a large widescreen is the ability to play widescreen movies to match the screen size (larger) and it makes it easier to bring up two documents you are working between and drag and drop as needed. The one downside is that you don't necessarily have more real estate to work with, it is just wider and because of that, you make not see as many lines of text in a document as you would with a 4:3 monitor. As you probably have noticed, almost all the monitors sold now are widescreen. Same trend with notebook computers. 73, Rick, KV9U Andrew O'Brien wrote: Any thoughts on a wide screen PC monitor versus a standard screen? I'm thinking of adding a 21 inch wide screen. Andy K3UK
Re: [digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?
Hi Brian, If you are using a large size monitor, you won't really lose a lot of text since the monitor screen real estate is physically larger than many of the smaller 4:3 monitors. Compare a 19 4:3 running at 1280x1024, to a 22 wide screen 16:9 which typically runs 1680x1050. Your vertical is still larger than the previous monitor although I think there could be a smaller size pixel. Of course, one thing you can not do with LCD monitors is make the fonts larger by using a smaller resolution like we did with CRT monitors. And the operating system drivers must be able to handle the widescreen monitor. This should be no problem with MS products but my experience with Linux has been very disappointing. [As I side note, the latest 7.10 Kubuntu, Tribe 4 (or 5?) that I downloaded today still does not support the Samsung 205/225 SyncMasters.] I am thankful that we can use the control - plus and minus keys to temporarily adjust font size in many documents as I have difficulty with some smaller fonts. Some monitors are intended to rotate sideways and you could use them to view a full document, however, I wonder if the 22 size monitors would be excessively large unless you wanted to see the entire page larger than lifesize? The real estate on my 22 monitor is 11 3/4 high and 18 1/2 inches wide. This enables me to place two pages side by side at almost full size and view most of both pages. I wish this had been available in the past when I used to be a consultant who did a fair amount of document development and needed to compare docs and cut and paste, etc. 73, Rick, KV9U Brian A wrote: Rick, I am really bothered by loosing still more lines of text with these wide screen beasties. The present OS's are like Stephen Kings Langoliers. They eat away at available screen real estate. Any way to turn them 90 degrees and also rotate the windows display screen so that a full page can be displayed? Brian/K3KO
[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?
Rick, Tnx info. Large than life size is good. Bifocals are bad. Computer glasses are always lost. Given the demographics of our society, such a larger than life full page display would be welcome by many. 73 de Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, If you are using a large size monitor, you won't really lose a lot of text since the monitor screen real estate is physically larger than many of the smaller 4:3 monitors. Compare a 19 4:3 running at 1280x1024, to a 22 wide screen 16:9 which typically runs 1680x1050. Your vertical is still larger than the previous monitor although I think there could be a smaller size pixel. Of course, one thing you can not do with LCD monitors is make the fonts larger by using a smaller resolution like we did with CRT monitors. And the operating system drivers must be able to handle the widescreen monitor. This should be no problem with MS products but my experience with Linux has been very disappointing. [As I side note, the latest 7.10 Kubuntu, Tribe 4 (or 5?) that I downloaded today still does not support the Samsung 205/225 SyncMasters.] I am thankful that we can use the control - plus and minus keys to temporarily adjust font size in many documents as I have difficulty with some smaller fonts. Some monitors are intended to rotate sideways and you could use them to view a full document, however, I wonder if the 22 size monitors would be excessively large unless you wanted to see the entire page larger than lifesize? The real estate on my 22 monitor is 11 3/4 high and 18 1/2 inches wide. This enables me to place two pages side by side at almost full size and view most of both pages. I wish this had been available in the past when I used to be a consultant who did a fair amount of document development and needed to compare docs and cut and paste, etc. 73, Rick, KV9U Brian A wrote: Rick, I am really bothered by loosing still more lines of text with these wide screen beasties. The present OS's are like Stephen Kings Langoliers. They eat away at available screen real estate. Any way to turn them 90 degrees and also rotate the windows display screen so that a full page can be displayed? Brian/K3KO
[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?
I would head for a well-stocked computer store and try out a 21 monitorwith intended resolution and distance-to-screen before making a purchase. I am using a 30 widescreen display with the resolution set to 2560 x 1600 placed 24 from my eyes. Any further away and I'd be squinting, but its too close to take in the entire screen at a glance. Had I taken the above advice, I'd have instead selected a pair of smaller monitors that I could place at an angle to each other for a more uniform eye-to-screen distance. 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Andrew O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any thoughts on a wide screen PC monitor versus a standard screen? I'm thinking of adding a 21 inch wide screen. Andy K3UK
