great monitor for xara but?
Hi, I bought the following monitor. I really like this monitor but if I go to any other resolution other than the optimal one for the monitor which is 1680x1050 I get blurry images.
Is this common with all monitors? Could it be my graphic card too?
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Re: great monitor for xara but?
The problem is that what you've bought is an LCD panel, not a CRT. An LCD is generally only usable at its "optimal" resolution.
Sadly, CRTs, which allow you to change resolutions to suit, are now an endangered species. LCDs look way cool and take up much less desk space, but as work-oriented displays, they leave a lot to be desired.:(
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I have a nec 19" flat panel and get same results my recommended size is 1280X1024 and if I go larger quality degrades slightly. I don't know if that is true with all Flat panels tho'
Jim
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Originally Posted by
behzad
Hi, I bought the following monitor. I really like this monitor but if I go to any other resolution other than the optimal one for the monitor which is 1680x1050 I get blurry images.
Is this common with all monitors? Could it be my graphic card too?
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/prodde...est%5Fcookie=1
Hmmm wierd. I work for a big box retail company(Won't mention the name) that is a competitor of Best Buy. We have a monitor exactly like this one but it comes with a tower and everything. It doesn't lose any quality when changing resolution. I will try it again tonight at work and post back tomorrow to let you know for sure if it is MAYBE the monitor you have.
I have always set every LCD monitor to a resolution of 1280x1024. Never had a problem with quality out of them.
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I have a ProView 19" wide screen that works very well with all resolutions I have tried. The optimal is 1440x900 which is what I like to use. I have tried it at 1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600, and 640x480; all the usual Windows resolutions as well as some other none Windows resolutions.
What video card are you using? Make sure it supports the other resolutions at the refresh rate you have selected. Check the video cards specifications to find what is recommend for refresh and resolution combinations.
Most cards work well at 60Hz refresh rate, but some recommend using 70Hz, or even 80Hz at a specific resolution. Before trying any changes to refresh rate make sure the monitor also supports that rate at the resolution you want to test. You can damage the monitor of you try too high or too low a refresh rate.
Re: great monitor for xara but?
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Originally Posted by
behzad
Hi, I bought the following monitor. I really like this monitor but if I go to any other resolution other than the optimal one for the monitor which is 1680x1050 I get blurry images.
Is this common with all monitors? Could it be my graphic card too?
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/prodde...est%5Fcookie=1
Yes it is true for all LCD monitors and doesn´t have anything to do with your graphic card. Some blurry less than others but all suffer the some problem. It´s a "limitation" of the LCD technology.
LCD screens can actually display only a "single" resolution called native resolution. This is the physically number of horizontal and vertical pixels that make up the LCD matrix of the display. When it matches the resolution you have chosen for your desktop you will get a sharp image because there´s always a physical pixel in the LCD matrix that corresponds to one pixel of your desktop resolution.
When you select a desktop resolution diferent from the native resolution of your LCD, the image has to be "resampled" meaning, that one physical pixel of the lcd matrix has to represent more or less than one single pixel of your desktop resolution blurring the image a little.
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If you care about image quality, you should *always* use an LCD monitor at its native resolution, and you should also use a DVI cable (if your setup supports it) in preference to an analogue VGA one.
Once you're running at a resolution which is different from that of the panel, some electronics somewhere is going to have to interpolate between the number of pixels your computer is trying to display and the number of dots actually on the LCD.
Depending on how this interpolation is done and the scaling ratios which are necessary, the image will be at best blury, at worst blury with horrible beating/aliasing patterns.
With some graphics card/monitor combinations you can chose between the scaling being done at the card or done in the monitor, but to be honest if you care enough to be rummaging around in deep options like that, then you ought to be running at the panel's native resolution anyway.
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Even CRT monitors have a native resolution and dot pitch that must be considered when setting your working resolution.
LCD monitors are not all that different from CRTs when you are not talking about the electronics within.
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Don't get me started on monitors (or mice)...
As a PC gamer, I'm into monitor perfection, and CRTs still reign supreme - by a significant margin. LCDs are good enough for non-gaming situations (and even some gaming situations), but suffer from two major inferiorities relative to CRTs - one of which will likely never be able to be overcome.
The first is the effective refresh rate/response time; CRT's are typically THREE orders of magnitude (1000s) times faster than LCDs. The fastest LCD response times are typically of the order of a few ms, whereas the CRT equivalent is of the order of microseconds. This is clear as crystal when playing 'twitch' games.
Secondly, unless an LCD monitor is run in its native resolution, interpolation effects will defile the image (as you are observing).
Newer technology is not always better, and it seems marketing suits would rather promote convenience of desk space saving over superior visual output. And of course, the gullible public concede.
There is still however a supreme CRT monitor available for anyone interested, and it is marvelous.
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Soquili
LCD monitors are not all that different from CRTs when you are not talking about the electronics within.
This is only partially true, because the beam in the CRT is able to partially illuminate through more than one position in the shadowmask/grille at the same time as it continuously sweeps across the screen.
There's no attempt made to phase-align the video signal with the mask, though as you say, one does sometimes still see beating patterns between patterns in the signal and the shadowmask.
If you think of a Trinitron/Diamontron type display, there's no vertical interruption in the grille at all, so the monitor really has no concept of 'vertical' pixels.
In contrast, at its native resoltion, a LCD aligns *specific* pixels of video information with *specific* pixels of display - that's really quite different - there should be no beating at all and pixels should have perfect square edges.