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OT : LCD PC Monitors...


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  • From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:33:50 -0000
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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.

 

(This was the same guy who insisted that the “Power Pivot” feature of a 17” Samsung LCD was that the stand adjusted for height … when I explained that it was that the screen rotated so that you could use it portrait or landscape he asked why you would ever want to do anything like that and carried on insisting that it was such an obscure thing to want to do and that the “Power Pivot” was definitely that the stand adjusts for height and tilt!)

 

Anyway … this Sharp 16” display has both 15 Pin high density D and DVI connectors and runs out at £580 ish >from these monitors and are they any good? I might go back and take my laptop to try this Sharp 16” LCD with but I fear that I may well get kicked out again.

 

I hate incompetent, bolshy and above all *INCORRECT* sales staff!

 

Phil


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