begin quoting Gus Wirth as of Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:10:27AM -0700: > I've been using a CRT display since forever and my current display is a > 20 inch 1280x1024 display. It has good brightness, fast response and > great viewing angle.
...and weighs a ton, no doubt. > I'm now testing a 24 inch widescreen 1920x1200 Samsung 245BW LCD. It has > decent brightness and good response (video plays fine) but the viewing > angle is miserable. Even small changes in my head position cause things > like title bars to blur and color contrasts either disappear or become > extreme at the edges. Viewing angle varies by monitor. The display on my laptop is *very* sensitive to viewing angle, while the DELL FP2001 I used on my desktop is pretty darn robust. > Is something that is normal for an LCD display or is this just a poorly > made monitor? Do those have to be exclusive options? > This model has great ratings at places like Newegg, so are these ratings > from people who don't know any better or am I just too demanding? I think you need to shop around a bit more. Gregory has one of those oh-god-lookit-that Dell monitors... how does it do on viewing angle? As good as the FP2001? -- I have a second monitor at work I need to hook up for dual-screen... Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
