On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:19:44PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > 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.
I'd hold out for 2160 horizontal resolution since the scaling is perfect 2:1 for 1080i HDTV if you're looking at the 24" display as a TV. Lower resolutions are reasonably nicely interpolated if there any attempt to do so correctly simply because anything over 2:1 can be made to work without getting too blurry. Brightness may be a factor, but I expect that a 24" display is going to be backlit similar to Apple's 20 and 23" models--much brighter than any laptop you've ever seen. Ever. A factor for me is that the gamma ramp is different than it should be (TVs tend to be brighter and have color temperatures which approach blue.) Another is that interpolation tends to cause some things to be darker because they are small and lose some of their sharp edges if the interpolation isn't done right (it's not in this instance..) Getting it right is doable if they hardware knows how, but I'm using software which makes some assumptions. It's not been enough of a problem to warrant special efforts to correct--I just raise the brightness to full when watching TV. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
