Hi Rick and Andy: I have a Olevia 37" wide screen HD that I use in the shack. Res is wonderful and can watch HD tv and HD videos on it as well.. will work on xp and vista, and they have gotten very cheap ( compared to when I bought this one -- it was 1300 dollars now, I look around and can find same one for 699). Have never regretted the large HD screen New ones have HDMI input as well,, make sure if for the shack monitor has DVI input ( and computer has DVI out) or res will not be as good ( and can even be poor). Use mostly for Digital SSTV ( EZPal and MMSSTV) but these are just a few.. MixW and all the digital modes. If you get a large screen you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
Garrett / AA0OI ----- Original Message ---- From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2007 1:37:04 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] PC Monitors for ham use? 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/