widescreen monitor

John_Gray

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

I wasn't aware that Dell do a 22" / 24" [ his original question in the other thread ] in the old format ?

No, the biggest I can find is a 19" one (as I said in my earlier post). A couple of years ago you couldn't move for the things. The widescreen format is a retrograde step, IMNVHO...!

Also apologies for ms-stating Sally!

Later... By going into the Enterprise Business section on the Dell website, I can get up to a 20" monitor - just two of them! But £279 plus VAT?!

salthepal

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Yes they are [ hiya Sally :wave: ],

Is this your Toshiba 36ZP46/48 36in CRT TV ?

It certainly is! My husband has a new all-singing all-dancing 46" Panasonic plasma and even he has to admit that the Tosh is a great all round performer. Tosh is a good company too because although the TV was out of guarantee, they supplied free of charge a DFS (don't ask me what that is!) module to replace a faulty one - would have cost me over £100.

You are a very helpful lot on here - thanks again!

I'll let you know when I've decided which one to get - still gathering info and reading reviews etc. etc.

salthepal

John_Gray wrote: »

No, the biggest I can find is a 19" one (as I said in my earlier post). A couple of years ago you couldn't move for the things. The widescreen format is a retrograde step, IMNVHO...!

Also apologies for ms-stating Sally!

Later... By going into the Enterprise Business section on the Dell website, I can get up to a 20" monitor - just two of them! But £279 plus VAT?!

I agree - that does seem a bit steep in comparison with the others!

Richie-from-the-Boro

Taking you back to post #7 on your old thread I mentioned that you can get a perfectly adequate monitor for 1/2 the price £150

We have now established that you are not on what we know as a widescreen TFT, but are indeed on a old style CRT

Last two points:

- unless you have some particular use, eg high power gaming / CAD / etc spending £300 on a top quality screen is pointless, you will never really get your money's worth from it.

- we each of us has at some point in the past have had problems getting our head around the widescreen format. Many years ago I too had a massive 6 SCART SONY CRT TV and a SONY CRT monitor and would not change to the new format, when I eventually did it took only a couple of days for my brain to adjust to the benefit.

Best of luck with your choice salthepal.

marleyboy

Ditto Richie - I cannot understand why I held off for so long, but there is no chance I would revert.

KillerWatt

salthepal wrote: »

Tosh is a good company too because although the TV was out of guarantee, they supplied free of charge a DFS (don't ask me what that is!) module to replace a faulty one - would have cost me over £100.

Toshiba didn't do you any favours per se.
The DFS module (video processor) failure is a common fault, Toshiba just had to bite the bullet and supply the part for free or lose face over it.

salthepal

At last! Just ordered http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-VH242H-Gaming-Monitor-Black/dp/B001TH8OYW/ref=dp_cp_ob_ce_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1276083967&sr=8-2
this one after a lot of dithering.
Thanks for all your help everyone who replied!

DVardysShadow

I have a 1920 by 1600 crt which I run at 1600 by 1200. I don't need widescreen - not for surfing or wordprocessing and not for programming.

The new formats are typically 1920 by 1080 - which means loads of 'improvement' in the dimension I don't care about and degradation in the dimension I do care about. Time i think to split monitors into 'meedia' and 'general' classes.