High-res IPS L[EC]D monitors

[Scott Sullivan]

On 05/14/2013 11:24 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:17:40AM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote:
>> A general lack of screens with 'greater then' >1080 vertical
>> resolution. I know this is a common gripe for the TLUG list and
>> technical people in general. The value here is that we want greater
>> vertical reading distance while stacking multiple windows side by
>> side.
>>
>> CRTs near the end of their days we're regularly pushing 1600
>> vertical pixels. This kind of screen real-estate has not really been
>> matched by the panel market with out it being absurdly expensive.
>> The advent of "HD" for TVs has set a "there is nothing better"
>> expectation in consumers minds. This has led to the sorry sate where
>> Computer monitor manufactures no longer push for larger screens.
>
> CRTs rarely went past 1600x1200, since that as about as much as an analog
> VGA link could reliably do.
>
> Now 1080 is less than 1200, so that's not a good thing.
>
> However there does exist screens with 1440 and 1600 vertical these
> days. usually in 27 or 30" size.
>

Thanks... this should have gone to the list a 6 weeks ago, but I just 
found it in drafts. Thought I'd lost it during a delivery failure.

-- 
Scott Sullivan

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