[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?

2007-09-02 Thread Brian A
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

Re: [digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?

2007-09-02 Thread Rick
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

[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?

2007-09-02 Thread Brian A
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:

[digitalradio] Re: PC Monitors for ham use?

2007-08-31 Thread Dave Bernstein
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