Hi everyone, Some people here seem to be losing sight (pun intended) of one of the reasons for Elecraft offering and people buying the SVGA adaptor, that is so that those people with poor eyesight can see the P3's display which due to their eyesight can be rather difficult to see in waterfall mode. (Monochrome mode will help a little)
I am one of those poorly sighted people and I can tell you that whilst all my computer monitors here are LCD flat panels with a native resolution of 1440x900 (or significantly better) I operate every single one of them at 1024 x 768 (even on the widescreen monitors), simply because that is the smallest that I can see unaided with any reliability. A lot of people are in the same boat I believe. My eye condition cannot be corrected by laser, spectacles or contacts, I just have to live with my failing eyesight until I get new corneal grafts which will give me another 5 to 10 years of sight. (At least I can go back under the knife a few times to extend my 'sighted' time which is some small comfort.) I am looking forward to the availabilty of the SVGA adaptor but please Eric, keep the 1024 x 768 resolution available. (Dare I ask for 800 x 600 too for when my eyes have just about 'croaked'?) :-) 73 de Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF East Innisfail QLD, Australia K3 #4257, P3#1629, KPA-500 #161 ----- Original Message ----- From: "iain macdonnell - N6ML" <a...@dseven.org> To: <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> Cc: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 VGA output On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > On 12/19/2011 1:21 PM, Doug Person wrote: >> Very few monitors in use today (for web-browsing) can accommodate 1024 x >> 768 as a native mode. > > This is a computer geek's view. So far, I've never seen a monitor sold > for use with computers that would NOT run at 1024x768. If you would > like to come by my QTH I can show you ten that DO work at 1024x768. The key word is "native". LCDs, being digital, have a native resolution, where each pixel to be displayed maps directly to a pixel on the screen. Most monitors will find a way to display some resolutions lower than their native one, but it may not look pretty (either "blurry", or maybe not filling the entire screen). See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution ~iain / N6ML ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
