My primary concerns... Brightness, sharpness, size, PC compatibility. Dell's new 20" LCD is a serious upgrade over their old one. Thus the supposed price increase. The new panel they are using is a 16 or 25ms panel which is fast for something of that size. Lots of updates that make that a very worthwhile panel from the review I've read on it. But.. 20" is not big enough for more than one person to watch movies on AND it's not a 16:9 screen. Television is my last concern. I've been hunting for the right plasma without a tuner of any sort. Newer plasma technologies produce sharper pictures with truer colors and less 'pixeled' edges. Hitachi and Pioneer seem to have the most of what I want in a screen. But the models I want are considered "industrial use" and aren't available locally. The better plasmas also take a UXGA signal ((1600x1200) compressed into a 1024x1024 box) and various others such as WXGA (1280x768) producing a near perfect picture on a widescreen monitor. Alas, if you look at the price of a high end 24" LCD it is at least half the price of a good 42" plasma. Lastly, I already have the high performance PC part of the picture ;-)
Mr O. --- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In November, Dell was selling their 20" 1600x1200 LCD panels > for $750. > They're back up to $1000 now. > > OTOH, the 1920x1200 24" displays (WUXGA, I think) look awfully > nice. > They're cheaper than a big screen TV, and they have a much > higher > resolution than HDTV. It'd work well as a TV if you can sit > within > ten or fifteen feet of it, and it'd work extremely well as a > monitor. > For the money you saved on the plasma screen, you can add a > low-noise, > high performance PC and a TV tuner card. Running Linux w/ > xine/mplayer and MythTV/Freevo, of course. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
