10-09-2018, 10:28 AM
"The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides"
Attributed to various people. Possibly originally Frank Muir or Dennis Norern on "My Word".
Some of those big CRT monitors were really good but you needed a huge desk and a strong one too. When comparing CRT to LCD sizes remember that for LCDs the size is the actual visible diagonal while for CRTs it's over the glassware. Visible picture often an inch or more less. My biggest CRT was 19", about 18" visible. Going from that to a 20" 1600x1200 LCD was astonishing. DVI made a big difference too. Using VGA connection the pictures were soft. Had to muck around with some software called cleartype(?) to get best rendering of small text on the LCD. That's all automatic now.
Attributed to various people. Possibly originally Frank Muir or Dennis Norern on "My Word".
Some of those big CRT monitors were really good but you needed a huge desk and a strong one too. When comparing CRT to LCD sizes remember that for LCDs the size is the actual visible diagonal while for CRTs it's over the glassware. Visible picture often an inch or more less. My biggest CRT was 19", about 18" visible. Going from that to a 20" 1600x1200 LCD was astonishing. DVI made a big difference too. Using VGA connection the pictures were soft. Had to muck around with some software called cleartype(?) to get best rendering of small text on the LCD. That's all automatic now.
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
