Caly opened this issue on Oct 09, 2003 ยท 17 posts
Drew2003 posted Thu, 09 October 2003 at 8:46 PM
Little Dragon - I watch DVD's all the time on my Syncmaster 191T, with no ghosting. I am also an avid gamer and have never been dissatisfied with the video presentation in high-end 3D games. The LCD has a 60Hz refresh rate, and your basic TV refreshes at about 30Hz (it varies between NTSC, PAL, and other TV formats). Mason - Your comments get at what I was trying to say about printing a picture and having it look a little different than it did on the LCD - while the LCD may not display perfect 32-bit color depth, especially in some ranges, the data is still there in the file, and the printer (or a CRT) may show the "true colors". SamsTherapy - I know what you mean by saying a "standard" resolution is 1280x960 (1.33:1), based on the old idea that 640x480 is the "standard". However, virtually all new video cards (and most CRT's) support 1280x1024 (1.25:1) - I'm not sure why this resolution is a detractor. I think where people might have an issue would be using a "standard" CRT with a 1.33:1 "native" aspect ratio and setting it to a 1.25:1 aspect ratio - in which case the shape of the pixels is slightly squashed to fit the new size picture to the full screen (keeping the pixel shape the same would necessitate black bars at two edges). If your display, however, is built at a native ratio of 1.25:1, then setting it to a 1.33:1 ratio is going to have a similar result. Hmm, that is about as clear as mud :( - Drew