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309005	2004-12-30 22:53:00	I appreciate that LCD monitors have a "natural" resolution which is usually the maximum.. However, I have a friend who is partly blind and would like to buy a large (17 or 19inch) LCD monitor and run it at 800 x 600. Has anyone done so and what is the quality of the picture. Also would you say an LCD monitor is as bright as a good CRT monitor. Thanks for your help	eddie1 (3003)
309006	2004-12-30 23:33:00	go into a store like harvey normal or tricky dickies, explain the situation to the sales drone and try out the monitors for yourself. What you want to be looking at is whether or not the LCD has has the OSD options to adjust the picture. Any LCD monitor should do 800x600, whether or not they actually fill the entire viewable screen properly is the real question. As for brightness, depends from what angle you are viewing the monitor ;) Straight on, yes. Though this depends on brand, I'm talking Philips, LG and Samsung, I cant really speak for others...	whetu (237)
309007	2004-12-31 00:02:00	I recently purchased a Samsung 193P (19") LCD... expensive but great colour, brightness, contrast and viewing angles. I run it usually at 800x600res because anything higher is just too hard on the eyes (I wear glasses) and all the icons etc in Windows are really too small. On the Samsung at 800x600 text is a comfortable 'real life' size and crisp. At 800x600 pages like PF1 fit the screen nicely but some web sites maxed for higher res you have to scroll left/right to see the whole page. I really don't know why web designers insist on building their sites for higher resolutions. A couple of things to watch for when buying an LCD for sight impaired... the viewing angle can make quite a difference, with some screens you only have to be positioned slightly off center and the image deteriorates considerably. I'd say for the sight impaired contrast is more important than overall brightness. Also if the computer you're using the screen with has an Nvidea graphics card chances are that you can use the 'zoom' magnifying feature on the video card. We've purchased a few smaller (15-17") 'cheapy' lcds for the office recently... like $600-700 price range and I hate to say it, you get pretty much what you pay for so it's a good idea to have a look at some screens, but also get them to let you adjust the brightness contrast and resolution etc as a lot of these places don't set the screens on display correctly... then at least you'll get an idea what they can do. HTH Short	Shortcircuit (1666)
309008	2004-12-31 02:47:00	I appreciate that LCD monitors have a "natural" resolution which is usually the maximum.. However, I have a friend who is partly blind and would like to buy a large (17 or 19inch) LCD monitor and run it at 800 x 600. Has anyone done so and what is the quality of the picture. Also would you say an LCD monitor is as bright as a good CRT monitor. Thanks for your help Before spendimg check used 21" crt this person may be better suited to such a piece and better budgeted. D.	drb1 (4492)
309009	2004-12-31 04:54:00	And use Windows Accessibility features.	Murray P (44)
309010	2004-12-31 06:07:00	Well... I've owned both 17" CRT and LCDs. I have ran 800x600 on every single one of them. Personally I find the higer resolutions a bit harsh on the eyes after a while. Quality is just as good. There is nothing that I'm aware of preventing the monitor from running at it's best just because of reduced resolutions.	~sy~ (95)
309011	2004-12-31 06:47:00	The issue is one of the LCD monitor "translating" a lower resolution, thats all. On an LCD screen, each pixel maps exactly to one "pixel element" on the screen, hence at native resolution the result is a very sharp crisp image. At a lower resolution, the screen has to try and decide how it will display, as it can only turn on and off a pixel and not part of a pixel. Therefore the resolution is compromised as one, two or three pixel elements have to be substituted for each pixel required. But it is not harmful, it just makes the display less sharp. With a CRT it's not an issue, as there is no such thing as a pixel per se, it's limited by both the phosphor dot size and the speed at which the electron beam can switch. Both these tend to be less precise than the LCD at native resolution.	godfather (25)
309012	2004-12-31 14:57:00	People buying 19" LCD monitors and running them at 800x600!!? That is the most retarded thing I've heard this year. What is the point?!! To waste money? To make your $900 monitor perform like a $5 CRT? More money than sense. :stare: :stare: You could try running it at it's native resolution and increase the DPI to some large percentage in Display Properties.	E|im (87)
309013	2004-12-31 17:42:00	A good example of putting a point both positvely and negatively and saying the same thing,that is G_F and Elim,Ejim take note.	Cicero (40)
309014	2004-12-31 18:10:00	[QUOTE=E|im]People buying 19" LCD monitors and running them at 800x600!!? That is the most retarded thing I've heard this year. What is the point?!! To waste money? To make your $900 monitor perform like a $5 CRT? More money than sense. :stare: :stare: WHAT A STUPID UNTHINKING REMARK! The original post did mention "poor eyesight" There have been some very good replies to the original query, but unfortunately none of them would have been much help because there are so many forms of bad eyesight. The only way is to experement. Find the size and type of monitor that suits your eyes. In my case I've tried LCD monitors and they are completely useless. (for me) I've tried different sizes of CRT up to 22 inch and have found the most suitable to be a cheapish Proview 19 inch at 1152 x 864. I did find one better. A 30 inch medical monitor. But it was out of my range $20,000 plus! Jack And thanks for making me start the new year by shouting! :mad:	JJJJJ (528)
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