On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 12:42 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > Dave Engvall wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > I'm using an GeForce 2 Nvidia card and it smears a bit on some windows. > > May have to try something else. Will check for a menu. > > > > > Non-manufacturer video cables are APPALLING crap! Just 5 wires in one > overall shield. I end up making my own video extension cables out of > RG-178 mini-coax. A 100' roll isn't all that expensive. I wish I could > find good cables pre-made, but I can't trust anything to be good enough. ... snip > Jon
A couple of video quality issues came to mind when I read this. Since HDMI is digital, would it be less prone to cable quality variations? I would think if the cable quality got below a threshold, you would see dropouts, but otherwise the picture would be perfect, or as good as it gets. I remember in the bad old days when I had a regular job in an office, that monitor picture quality varied quite a bit. The monitor you bought tended to depended on what you were going to use it for. For drafting, If you spent a bunch of money, you could get a big monitor that could place allot of clear (sharp) information all over the screen. So far, I have only seen inexpensive LCD monitors and they don't seem to be very good at displaying fine details. In other words, it seems I need to blow up drawings larger on an LCD than on a CRT, to see the same details. If I spent buckets of money on an LCD monitor, would CAD drawings look better or would I just have a better movie experience? What do current drafters, with big budgets, use? Kirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
