lcd monitor manufacturer recommendation request

spellberg_robert emailrob at emailrob.com
Mon Nov 23 21:15:08 UTC 2009


i thank you, sir.



Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> spellberg_robert <emailrob at emailrob.com> writes:
> 
>>Person, Roderick <personrp at UPMC.EDU> writes:
>>
>>>You could get an LCD monitor that only has the 15 pin connection,
>>>then you can choose refresh rate and play with modelines. At least
>>>on the Viewsonic LCD I have which is 5 years old I had to do that to
>>>get it working. That is if you really want to keep doing such
>>>things.
>>
>>it isn't that i --want-- to keep doing this; it is that i --can-- do
>>so, if i desire.
> 
> 
> A CRT has an electrom beam that sweeps across the screen left to right
> and top to bottom, and the horizontal and vertical sync frequencies
> control how fast the beam moves.  An LCD panel does not have an electron
> beam; it has discrete, individually adressable pixels.  If you insist on
> hooking it up to an analog port, it will have to convert the analog
> signal to a digital signal in order to display it, and you will get
> sampling artifacts, aliasing etc.  I don't care how good you are at
> writing modelines; you will never come up with one that looks better
> than what you will get with a digital connection.
> 
> DES

this was another clue that i needed to shift my paradigm.

however, it has an un_spoken assumption regarding format.

rob



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