[mythtvnz] Slightly OT - which new TV

[Steve Hodge]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 17:10, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
> wrote:

> I agree about wanting vertical space, but I got a 1920x1200 monitor so
> that it had the same vertical space as my old 19" CRT, and that works
> very well.  I tend to use the extra horizontal screen space for all
> sorts of useful but not totally necessary things.
>

I guess you've got a 24" widescreen? It'll be interesting to see if those
panels survive in the market as I think 16:10 is declining in popularity.
But if I upgrade, one of those would probably be my choice.

Currently my desktop has two 19" 4:3 monitors, one is landscape, one is
portrait. The portrait one is what I use for browsing and most documents.
Landscape one gets used for games and spreadsheets and VMs mostly. It's nice
to be able to just maximize a window on the portrait monitor alone. OTOH, I
can't use subpixel rendering (i.e. ClearType) because Windows is too stupid
to understand how to do it properly in portrait orientation.

To match the portrait monitor's vertical space I'd need a 15" high screen
with 1280 lines. A 30" 1920x1080 would be pretty close to matching my two
monitors together (about the same space but with 20% less pixels). A 30"
2560x1600 would be great. But any 30" is going to cost at least $1500. Not
gonna happen.

Cheers,
Steve
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