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Thread ID: 40612	2003-12-12 18:24:00	Graphics card or monitor ?	JJJJJ (528)	Press F1

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199856	2003-12-12 22:34:00	Before you decide, go to a store like Harvey Normans and look at the LCD monitors. I have someone here that is partially blind, and I ended up getting a Philips LCD flat panel monitor, as that was the best for them. The text is as crisp as you can get, and it suits them better than CRT's. With Cleartype enabled under XP, nothing else came close. It all depends on the level and type of eyesight loss, so seeing them side by side is the best you can do. A 17" LCD has a viewing area size close to a 19" CRT	godfather (25)
199857	2003-12-12 22:57:00	just to add fuel to the debate....... some graphics cards have poor filters which can cause poor pic quaility exspecially at higher res. also the drivers used can make a difference. some have better quailty but slower speed. sometimes a bit of trail and error is needed to find what suits you the best.	tweak'e (174)
199858	2003-12-12 23:04:00	I concur with Goddie. We (kids) bought dad a 15" Philips LCD for his 82nd birthday earlier in the year and he hasn't looked back, so to speak. We got the commercial LCD rather than the cheaper consumer one basically for the better warranty and no dead/stuck pixel guarantee. Dad wears glasses but also has cataracts (not bad enough to fix yet) and something else amiss in there somewhere. I think it's something to do with looking at large expanses of the bright Pacific ocean and sky during WW2 with less than perfect eye protection. He uses the accessibility features in Control Panel to increase the size of the text and uses a magnify function with the mouse cursor if necessary. HTH Murray P	Murray P (44)
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