Dell has a nice big screen on sale.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:51:01PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Using a 30" monitor in any other way than its native mode, hooked to a
> computer, is likely a waste.  You pay a lot more for those pixels that
> you would in a 30" 1920x1080 monitor.  If you need to scale something,
> get your computer to do it (I admit that DRM may stand in the way).
> 
> So paying for the difference between the 3007WFP and the 3008WFP is
> probably a waste.

Well sometimes you would like to use things that don't do the native
resolution.  Besides the picture in picture is pretty neat too.

The backlight is also much better on the 3008.  Having multiple inputs
and the ability to connect multiple computers is a nice feature as well,
which I don't think the 3007WFP has either.

> Now, to argue the other way.  I have a dell 24" monitor that I bought
> before the 30" came out.  It is now a secondary monitor on my desk.
> The 30" is large enough that I don't use the 24" as an extension of
> the same computer desktop.  So I regularly watch crappy SD TV on the
> whole 24" screen, exploiting the composite input.  I can and do switch
> the monitor between DVI (another computer), composite (VCR, which acts
> as a live TV tuner too), and component (a switch selecting within a
> collection of experiments in HDTV).
> 
> For TVs, 19" widescreen is about 3% taller than an old 15":
> 15" 4x3 12.00000000000000000000"x9.00000000000000000000"
> 19" 16x9 16.55993520536643639968"x9.31496355301862047482"
> 
> For CRTs, most manufacturers add about 1" to the diagonal number
> (counting glass that won't be part of the image).  Sun was an
> exception but even they bowed to competition eventually.  I forgot to
> take account of that in my comment about 26" TVs.
> 
> For computer monitors, DPI issues add another dimension to the problem.

True.

> | > define stats(diag, hr, wr) {
> | > 	auto dr;
> 
> That should have been "auto sc;".  No matter.

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Len Sorensen
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