I'm trying to pluck up the courage to go "true" DIY and rip an LCD apart. In the meantime I'm wondering...
First, why are there LCD panels from the 1990's such as the Impact WSX, and one or two others that were 10.4" diagonal and had native resolutions of 1280 x 1024, and nowadays finding a 15" panel with a res higher than 1024 x 768 is like looking for a needle in a haystack
Second, surely the technology must have improved because contrast ratios now on more advanced LCD monitors seem to be awesome (600:1 and higher!!)
Finally, when I read in panel specs about panel brightness being xx cd/m^2 (candelas per metre squared!) this refers to the transmissivity of the panel, not the lighting properties of the backlight, right ??
First, why are there LCD panels from the 1990's such as the Impact WSX, and one or two others that were 10.4" diagonal and had native resolutions of 1280 x 1024, and nowadays finding a 15" panel with a res higher than 1024 x 768 is like looking for a needle in a haystack
Second, surely the technology must have improved because contrast ratios now on more advanced LCD monitors seem to be awesome (600:1 and higher!!)
Finally, when I read in panel specs about panel brightness being xx cd/m^2 (candelas per metre squared!) this refers to the transmissivity of the panel, not the lighting properties of the backlight, right ??
Also, has anyone noticed how more and more 15" laptop screens are SXGA and even UXGA. Do you think we'll ever get 15" desktop LCD monitors with these resolutions ?
yea I dunno , do even CRT monitors that are 15" go higher then 1024 x 768? I havent had a 15" crt in years My 19"crt goes higher.
Here's the problem. It seems UXGA has been pretty much a failure on laptops because people don't like their text to be so small. 15" UXGA for desktops may never happen, because they benefit nobody but DIYers. Until average Joe's can learn to change the font size, high-res LCD's will continue to generate complaints from customers.
It's not a technology limitation, it's an economic one.
It's not a technology limitation, it's an economic one.
yea Agreed, I have my monitors usually set at 800 x 600 1024 x 768 sems just to small for me. who knows diff strokes diff folks
Actually, the native on the WSX is a misprint in all those LCD panel information pages. Its true native resolution is only 1024x768 and it can interpolate to a degraded 1280x1024. Single most inferior spec that tells you what an early generation of color LCD's it came from is its 100:1 contrast ratio -- especially when you look at those shiny new Hitachi's with 400:1 and a 16ms response time.
The biggest thing these days is just that. Manufacturers generally won't make a desktop LCD any smaller than 15" and even notebooks start at 14". Sure you'll find 8.4", 10.5", 12.1" and 13.3 LCD's out there, but they're usually in smaller form factor notebooks. If manufacturers sell more 14" and above, they're not going to invest the R&D into higher resolutions on smaller panels unless the need and demand is there.
Don't tell me LCD's are going backwards when you can find a 15" notebook LCD with 1600x1200, Xenarc 7" displays with 800x480 and 3.8" Palm displays with 320x480.
The biggest thing these days is just that. Manufacturers generally won't make a desktop LCD any smaller than 15" and even notebooks start at 14". Sure you'll find 8.4", 10.5", 12.1" and 13.3 LCD's out there, but they're usually in smaller form factor notebooks. If manufacturers sell more 14" and above, they're not going to invest the R&D into higher resolutions on smaller panels unless the need and demand is there.
Don't tell me LCD's are going backwards when you can find a 15" notebook LCD with 1600x1200, Xenarc 7" displays with 800x480 and 3.8" Palm displays with 320x480.
The only legitimate application I could see small (14" or less) high-res panels working is for tablet PCs. This is due to the fact that art types will want high-res photo quality they can draw on.
i got me an 18" lcd monitor running at 1280 x 1024 and i couldnt imagine running it at any less. anyone know the best way to calibrate a lcd monitor? i got it pretty much where i like to out put but like always, there is room for improvement.
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ap0
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ap0
well, calibrate was a poor choice of words. I mean, what is the best way to "adjust?" the colors, contast, brightness etc...
i have a nokia monitor test program but I dont think it works very well.
thanks,
ap0
i have a nokia monitor test program but I dont think it works very well.
thanks,
ap0
Ah, OK... gotcha now. Kinda threw me there!
Depending on your video card, there should be some color correction settings available in your software driver. The two big guys, NVIDIA and ATI, both have controls for vibrance, brightness, contrast, gamma and individual red, green & blue color channels.
There's 3rd party software out there too -- PowerStrip, among others, can supplement your video driver's capabilities. PowerStrip does a lot more than just color correction, so you might want to find a smaller, more specialized application if system overhead is vital.
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm
Hardware color adjustment can be done with a specialized optical sensor and accompanying software, but it's expensive and really only useful for people that need precise spot-on color matching between monitor and hardcopy. Most useful in professional photography and desktop publishing pre-press work.
Depending on your video card, there should be some color correction settings available in your software driver. The two big guys, NVIDIA and ATI, both have controls for vibrance, brightness, contrast, gamma and individual red, green & blue color channels.
There's 3rd party software out there too -- PowerStrip, among others, can supplement your video driver's capabilities. PowerStrip does a lot more than just color correction, so you might want to find a smaller, more specialized application if system overhead is vital.
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm
Hardware color adjustment can be done with a specialized optical sensor and accompanying software, but it's expensive and really only useful for people that need precise spot-on color matching between monitor and hardcopy. Most useful in professional photography and desktop publishing pre-press work.
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