-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Monitor size, resolution and visibilty

  • From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:36:59 -0400

Unfortunately, our electronics department does not have live displays of 
monitors.   And the local Office Depot uses one computer to feed all the 
monitors on display.

But you may have answered my question...If I understood correctly.

On a 17" 4:3 monitor lets say a desktop icon might measure 100cm x 150cm and 
a line of text might show 50 characters across the screen.

Keeping everything the same except switch to a 19" 4:3 monitor the icons 
might "grow" to 110cm x 165cm and the line of text might grow to 60 
characters.  Make the 19" widescreen and the text might extend to 65 or 70 
characters and the icons would remain 100 x 150

Changing from 17" square to 17" widescreen would not affect any sizes but 
would display more horizontally and a little less vertically.

Summary:  Moving to a larger screen may allow at least a small amount of 
increased resolution to improve display quality without sacrificing 
visibility.

How'd I do?  :-))

Don




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GuitarMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 5:32 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Monitor size, resolution and visibilty


> Don,
>    The difference would be very similar to upgrading her to a
> non-widescreen 19 inch monitor as far as icon and text sizes go.  In other
> words, the same resolutions would cause those items to actually appear
> larger, so you would need to step up to the next set of resolutions (the
> ones designed for the aspect ratio of the widescreen) to make a more fair
> comparison.  On the other hand, she'll have a lot less side scrolling to 
> do
> given the extra few horizontal inches.
>
>    Your best bet would be to talk with one of the folks who work in the
> electronics dept at your Walmart and ask if they could give you a quick 
> side
> by side comparison diruing your lunchbreak.  It should only take a minute 
> or
> so to adjust the resolutions on a couple of display systems.
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask."
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:38 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Monitor size, resolution and visibilty
>
>
>>
>> My Mom needs a very low resolution on her display to make the items on 
>> the
>> screen large enough for her to see clearly.  That makes it difficult to
>> work on her computer and you must constantly scroll left and right to see
>> everything.  That is a real pain when reading text.  (thats the setup for
>> what comes next)
>>
>> If I have a 17" CRT monitor (4:3 aspect ratio) with the resolution set to
>> 600x480 the icons on the desktop are large.  If I increase the resolution
>> to 800x600 or 1024x768 the icons become medium and small.
>>
>> If I switch to a 22" widescreen LCD monitor, using the same resolutions
>> will the physical size of the icons be the same as they were on the CRT?
>> Think visibilty here.
>>
>> In other words:
>>
>> "The quick brown fox"  is visible without scrolling on the old monitor at
>> 640x480.  Will "The quick brown fox jumped over" be visible on the
>> widescreen without sacrificing visibilty?
>>
>> "The quick brown fox jumped"  vs "The quick brown fox jumped over the" at
>> 800x600?
>>
>> "The quick brown fox jumped over the" vs "The quick brown fox jumped over
>> the lazy dog" at 1024x768?
>>
>> I want to keep the larger physical size of the items on the display to
>> maintain visibilty and at the same time reduce or eliminate the need for
>> scrolling left and right.  Can that be done?
>>
>> Don
>


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