Monitors too big
Nov. 7th, 2008 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyWe're doing a monitor shuffle at home, to move the oldest of our monitors off to replace a very-much-outdated one at church. I figured, I'm starting to do video editing, the app I have is clearly intended to use on a widescreen monitor, and almost all of the video I watch these days is widescreen. So I looked for a widescreen monitor.
The monitors we have now are 1280x1024. At work I have an LCD panel rotated to provide 1024x1280, and a CRT giving me 1600x1200. But the only 17" widescreen monitors anyone makes are 1440x900. I'd have to give up significant vertical real estate, pixel-wise, and I'm NOT going to do that. I care about resolution much more than size.
In the end, I wound up ordering a 19" Viewsonic widescreen, which has a 1680x1050 resolution. I didn't really want anything that big, but when I looked at it, it turns out that it's really about the same physical height as my current 17" monitor, just wider, and at least I'm keeping about the same vertical resolution. I stepped up to the Viewsonic, because that's what I currently have, we've had good luck with them, and all the cheaper brands had at least some people saying their color rendition was OK but not really good enough for photo/video editing work.
I briefly thought about one that was about 20 bucks more and did full 1920x1080, which is HD 1080p compliant, but then I was back into off-brand monitors, and I'd rather have more accurate color. Also that was 21" and that's just getting too crazy big for me.
I can't complain, it's still cheaper than either of the monitors we have in the house now. LCDs have gotten dirt cheap in the last year. But I would have preferred to have gotten a little bit smaller of a monitor with the same resolution.
Of course, the guys at work think I'm nuts; they all have multiple monitors at home, one has two 21s and a 24 on his gaming rig, and is thinking about adding a 4th monitor. Yikes.
The monitors we have now are 1280x1024. At work I have an LCD panel rotated to provide 1024x1280, and a CRT giving me 1600x1200. But the only 17" widescreen monitors anyone makes are 1440x900. I'd have to give up significant vertical real estate, pixel-wise, and I'm NOT going to do that. I care about resolution much more than size.
In the end, I wound up ordering a 19" Viewsonic widescreen, which has a 1680x1050 resolution. I didn't really want anything that big, but when I looked at it, it turns out that it's really about the same physical height as my current 17" monitor, just wider, and at least I'm keeping about the same vertical resolution. I stepped up to the Viewsonic, because that's what I currently have, we've had good luck with them, and all the cheaper brands had at least some people saying their color rendition was OK but not really good enough for photo/video editing work.
I briefly thought about one that was about 20 bucks more and did full 1920x1080, which is HD 1080p compliant, but then I was back into off-brand monitors, and I'd rather have more accurate color. Also that was 21" and that's just getting too crazy big for me.
I can't complain, it's still cheaper than either of the monitors we have in the house now. LCDs have gotten dirt cheap in the last year. But I would have preferred to have gotten a little bit smaller of a monitor with the same resolution.
Of course, the guys at work think I'm nuts; they all have multiple monitors at home, one has two 21s and a 24 on his gaming rig, and is thinking about adding a 4th monitor. Yikes.
