RE: OT : LCD PC Monitors...

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Probably non of the same sales staff still work there !

 

Watched a Phil Jupitus video the other night where he relates the tale of going to buy a TV on a Saturday when the really spotty sales droids are there. Droid points to distant wall and says.....

 

Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television, Television whilst pointing at a display of Microwave Ovens.

 

 

Isnt that just soooo true to life :-(

 

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 December 2001 13:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] OT : LCD PC Monitors...

I was escorted off the premises but they seem to have memories shorter than Shorty McShort …

 

… either that or the quest for folding beer tokens just means that they’re happy enough to let me back in!

 

Just not impressed with the knowledge of the sales staff there … maybe they have specific fields of “expertise” and in that case if monitors weren’t one of his then he should have gone and got someone who could answer my questions accurately. Not being able to see an LCD screen working at its native resolution is pants … when scaling up or down an LCD panel invariably loses detail. I have a 17” LG Flatron CRT monitor which I love using as it is very crisp. The 16” Sharp LCD would be the same active size screen (as near as dammit) and running at the same resolution (1,280 x 1,024) would be ideal. I’d then use the LG as a secondary display for photo editing as I still think LCDs don’t have the colour range that they need to equal CRT screens.

 

The guy had no idea what a DVI input was (the Sharp has one) and had no concept of why you would want to rotate the screen on an LCD panel.

 

Phil

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 December 2001 13:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] OT : LCD PC Monitors...

 

I thought you were banned from PC World after going in there photographing kit !

 

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 December 2001 00:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] OT : LCD PC Monitors...

Popped into PC World today and saw rather a nice looking Sharp 16” LCD monitor for about £700 … it has the same resolution as a 17” LCD (1,280 x 1,024 pixels) rather than the usual 1,024 x 768 pixels of the 15” panels.

 

I asked to see it running windows at 1,280 x 1,024 rather than the PC World rolling presentation shown at the 1,024 x 768 – the native resolution of the 14” and 15” panels - that it was being used at (so that I could see it working *WITHOUT* interpolating the image up to be full screen). I was told that it wasn’t possible because the HP Pavillion PC that was driving the bank of LCD displays *COULDN’T RUN AT THAT RESOLUTION* - biggest load of bollocks I’ve ever heard of course and when I queried that this just didn’t seem feasible - a modern PC unable to generate a 1,280 x 1,024 image – the guy got quite snotty and insisted that he knew the capabilities of their demonstration kit better than I did.

 

 

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