Hi, this is Roger DeReu, my website is Freecomputerconsultant.com. In this short video I wanted to show you some of the differences between the available monitors which I’m planning for sale and the comparison to the old style CRT monitor which you see over on the far right.
Now that old style of monitor is actually a 19-inch but if you measure corner to corner you’ll find it doesn’t measure 19-inches. It actually measured kind of behind the plastic on those older CRTs to get the total size and it really doesn’t compare as well to the new flat panels.
Now, this is a 17-inch standardized spec ratio flat panel and it does measure 17-inches corner to corner. This is a 19-inch wide screen monitor and it measure about 18.75 somewhere in that neighborhood pretty close to 19 on a corner to corner basis. It has a spec ratio of 16 wide to 10 up and down.
Now, the standardized spec ratio is typically four to three maybe five to four and widescreen is typically somewhere around 16 to 10 and what that means for you is in the actual display resolution you can get say 1280 pixels wide by 1024 on a standard kind of medium quality flat panel and the standardized spec ration, but in a standard I should say a medium range widescreen monitor was 16 to 10 you’ll get about 1440 x 900 pixels as on this tripled monitor.
Now, you might notice this but this is a 19-inch and this is a 17-inch. You can actually get more pixels of display up and down with the standardized spec ratio than you can in the wide screen. Let’s take a look now with the tape measure. This measures right about 10.75 -inches high and this is 17-inch monitor. It measures almost exactly as this 19-inch CRT, but this 19-inch wide screen is only going to be measured 10-inches high, so you really do see it was on the actual up and down display.
Now, when you’re dealing with pages or PDF or maybe a documents that’s pretty important. Now, the widescreen might come in handy if you have a spreadsheet with a lot of columns or if you’re a DVD, but if you’re buying a monitor for the workplace of course you have an employer who watch you watch DVDs in the workplace and I don’t know of any if you do let me know I might want to apply for a job there.
But you really need to see more of the display typically in a standardized spec ratio. Unfortunately, standardized spec ratio is getting hard and hard to buy. Now as I record this November 2008 and we will try to get you in a widescreen monitor.
Now, I actually have two widescreen monitors on my desk and I love them, but they are 24-inch monitors, so they actually will do a display resolution high enough that I can get all of that hide on the screen that I need. When you see a 19-inch monitor in the widescreen it may not be big enough for you.
So, when you’re looking to buy new monitor a 19-inch widescreen might be fine for you especially at home, but in the office you might want to look for standard spec ratio and that could be hard to find, if so just go on the side larger or maybe a little bit larger but it’s going to cost more money but make sure you get a monitor that works for you.
That’s it for this video, thanks for watching. Please visit my website at www.freecomputerconsultant.com and you can even sign up for my free newsletter, thank you.
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