dicklaxt
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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 5, 2015 1:06:52 GMT
I just hooked up a new monitor,1st new one I've had since 2002 I think. It sure is bright. The old one outlived 3 computers and is still trucking right along. I'll hook it up to an old Vista computer for the grandkids to play games on. Now it will get a real test from that bunch.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 5, 2015 1:32:55 GMT
Although I have no real complaints about my monitor, Acer AL1716, I wish it's screen was about half again as big; of course, then, it wouldn't fit so snugly under the overhanging shelf where this one clears by about 1/2-inch. It would be nice to get rid of that one annoying dead pixel that I have tried to clone and spot-heal more times than I care to admit. The wife's sister sent me a load of various dead-in-the-water desk-tops for me to copy the images and music files from the hard-drives; along with this stuff came a like-new wide-screen HP monitor. Although my ACER looks good to my eye, out of curiousity, I hooked the wide-screen HP to my desk-top. The view was markedly superior, clear as a bell; however, everything was distorted and stretched. People were short and squatty; and, things that I knew were perfectly round, like vehicle wheels, were about twice as long as they were tall. Although the picture quality was superb, it didn't take me one evening to put the wide-screen back in the closet.  |
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Post by Tpgettys on Jun 5, 2015 3:00:10 GMT
buckskin, you may wish to rethink that! All that you need to do is select the appropriate screen resolution for that monitor.
Put up an image with a circle in it and go to control panel. Select Display Settings. Try different resolution settings until you find the one that looks good and renders circles as circles.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 5, 2015 3:56:33 GMT
Thank you, tpgettys; I was not aware such a feat could be performed. Along the same line of reasoning, can I do the same thing with our huge wide-screen TV; I am getting tired of Matt Dillon looking four-foot-six and his horse looking long as a boxcar. Recent shows/movies are not so much plagued by this distortion, but it sure is noticeable on older shows; Hoss Cartwright looks like a Sumho wrestler. |
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Post by Tpgettys on Jun 5, 2015 4:36:45 GMT
Thank you, tpgettys; I was not aware such a feat could be performed. Along the same line of reasoning, can I do the same thing with our huge wide-screen TV; I am getting tired of Matt Dillon looking four-foot-six and his horse looking long as a boxcar. Recent shows/movies are not so much plagued by this distortion, but it sure is noticeable on older shows; Hoss Cartwright looks like a Sumho wrestler. LOL! I know exactly what you are talking about! However, I don't know the answer to that one; I have the same problem with old programs. I feel pretty confident in saying that if your TV can be corrected for that, it would have to be uncorrected for the programs that display correctly now; that is, it would be a big hassle! With the monitor, however, once you have the correct resolution set everything will display correctly. |
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dicklaxt
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Post by dicklaxt on Jun 5, 2015 8:56:38 GMT
I believe that all is a fault of the aspect ratio of capture versus display. I have a master remote that has the smarts to fix such but if you change channels then you have to fix the next one. I just stay away from those old shows.
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