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whammoed:
--- Quote from: MonMotha on March 25, 2011, 01:11:36 am ---4 or 5 years ago, I could reasonably readily get monitors with 1600 lines of resolution. My my how far things have progressed to get to 1440, now. It's amazing, I tell you.
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LOL. I had a sony CRT monitor back then that could do that. Looked like hell at that resolution though. I'm sure there were larger sets that looked fine though.
MonMotha:
I'm talking about LCDs. There were several 26" models on the market (likely all using the same panel) about 3-4 years ago sporting that resolution.
I have a GDM-FW900 from the early 2000s that can do 2304x1440 at 85Hz and looks decent doing it, assuming you have a good video card. My laptops have trouble keeping up, probably due to aggressive EMI control components on their analog outputs, but some of my discrete graphics cards look pretty good. I usually run it at 1920x1200 @ 85Hz. While it can go higher refresh at that res, getting a good enough signal source for it to not be blurry is tough.
It could in theory do 1600 lines at 75Hz. I've not tried it, so I don't know how it would look. The pixel clock at 2560x1600 @ 75Hz is a whopping ~320MHz. I'm guessing many video cards' DACs can't really keep up (even if they can be clocked that fast, they probably don't have sufficient analog bandwidth), and the EMI control components will also start to cause a problem (though they're easily bypassed). Cable quality is VERY important at that point on an analog line.
whammoed:
--- Quote from: MonMotha on March 25, 2011, 10:26:37 am ---I'm talking about LCDs. There were several 26" models on the market (likely all using the same panel) about 3-4 years ago sporting that resolution.
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Ah. Don't see any 26" models on newegg anymore but they have some 30" ones in that res.
What kind of price were those 26" models fetching?
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MonMotha:
My recollection is in the $1100-1500 range. Prices have certainly come down on LCDs, but sadly often so have the specs :(
I bought a 19" 1280x1024 S-IPS 5:4 LCD in 2003 for $800 (after $100 rebate), and I think you'd be hard pressed to get me to sell it now for that price. The viewing angles are superb, the screen protector is amazingly rugged (though it can glare a little bit), good black levels, and the resolution is just about impossible to beat at that size. My only real complaints are a couple of stuck pixels in the corners (normal and accepted at that time), and it's a little dim (partially due to age, and partially because new models have gotten brighter but usually at the expense of black level). Response time is a bit long (IIRC, it's about 20ms B-W), but that's not a huge deal for my normal usage. If want to game, I do it on my CRTs at 90+Hz :)
fallacy:
--- Quote ---Is that actually true? I'm no electrical engineer, but . . . cables matter in the digital world too. A gigabit signal can't be reliably passed over regular CAT 5 wire. You need CAT 5e or better for that. Even though the connectors are the same and they all have the same number of wires running through them. And digital signals are not always necessarily all the way on or all the way off, it seems to me. You might just have packet loss, for example, which if minor can be compensated with error correction algorithms or resending packets, etc. I have seen digital video degraded a bout a hundred bajillion times. You have a scratched DVD and it might stutter and artifact, but you don't necessarily lose the signal entirely. I would imagine, and keep in mind that I am a layperson, that a poor quality HDMI cable might use too small a gauge of wires, or poor shielding that could introduce dropped bits especially in longer cable runs, leading to artifacting (i.e., image degradation), but not necessarily a complete loss of signal.
I'm not saying that you should buy expensive cables. I buy all my cables from Monoprice and have never had a problem. But is the case really as absolute as y'all are presenting it? Or am I misunderstanding something?
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Let’s put it this way. When you buy a new monitor which I am sure we all have, do you go out and spend $80 or more for a new DVI cable that has a box picture of flying through space attacking aliens? (I’m sure DaveMMR does) or do you just use the one in the box that comes with the monitor. You saint's note - don't try to get around the auto-censor please. I put it there for a reason. use the one in the box! Why? Because as long as your text comes in sharp there is no problem to begin with.
Well guess what; DVI and HDMI use the same standard. The only difference is HDMI has audio and DVI does not. So if you don’t care about the DVI cable when you hook up a monitor then why the F would anyone think a HDMI cable is any different?
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