[mythtvnz] Slightly OT - which new TV

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:46:30 +1300, you wrote:

>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.

27" - it was $1200 when I got it.

>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