What size monitors are you using?

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I`m using a 17" panasonic digital with 600 x 800 rez. The screen is getting very crowded using Sonar with more than 5 tracks. I can get finer resolution but I can`t see well enough. THinkin about a 20".
 
800x600 on a 17''? that's not much. 1024x768 is more or less the standard resolution for 17''. I even run 1280x960 on my Iiyama 17''.

Bad eyes but good glasses.
 
christiaan said:
800x600 on a 17''? that's not much. 1024x768 is more or less the standard resolution for 17''. I even run 1280x960 on my Iiyama 17''.

Bad eyes but good glasses.
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I can do 1024 but I like bigger cause I got bad eyes and bad glasses..
:)
 
why don't you try a card and a second monitor? Even a small one will give you much better working space that just adding a few inches. Don't know if it will affect your performance, though. Does anybody know about that?
 
I run 2: a 17" flat CRT and a 13" Trinitron. The 17' is driven by an old Voodoo5 and the 13" runs of the motherboard VRAM (4MB). I would rather run 2 17's than one 19 or 20. You actually get more real estate that way. There are video cards that have dual monitor support.

I run my res at 832x768 & 640x480 respectively. I would run 1024x768 on the 17" but the 13" is fixed res and it's too wierd to have things change sizes between monitors.

I will warn you that once you get used to the dual monitor setup you won't ever want to go back to a single.;)
 
Dual monitor is damn appealing. Especially because I've got three 14" monitors sitting around the house. Someday I'll get around to getting the video card for it. :rolleyes:
 
Both of the computers I use for recording run 19" CRT monitors. When recording (I use Cakewalk / Sonar / Sound Forge) I run at 1280 x 1024, which lets me see everything I need (barely). On the PC that also doubles as my general-purpose PC I switch down to 1024 x 768 or 1152 x 864 when doing other stuff.

I agree that dual monitors would be useful, and flat screens save a lot of desk space. But I like to constantly change my screen resolutions, and play games, and flat screens are not good choices for this. This is because a flat screen has one single "native" resolution that it looks good in, and they look crappy (at least to me) at any other setting.
 
I have a 21" Mitsubishi. It sets kind of far from me so I keep it set at 1024x768. I use this thing for editing so I like the display BIG.
 
i run dual 18inch NEC LCD's at 1280x1024
Matrox G400 32MB AGP card.

probably been discussed before, genereal rule is buy a dual head AGP card, you can get away with a second PCI card but this can cause problems by adding more traffic to your PCI bus so its a trial and error situation.

no added software required just plug and go.

most discussions i've read involve the Matrox cards not being as good as some other brands for gaming but i wouldnt know.
 
This may be slightly off topic, but we just bought a 19" NEC MultiSync FP955 for a gaming pc we ordered. For heavy graphics, 19" is about as big as you will want it because larger sizes will tend to distort the graphics. I've also heard complaints from gamers about the graphic quality of flat screens.

Oh and here's something I never heard of: according to the instructions, you should try to position the monitor so that it is facing the east to minimize the effects of the earth's magnetic field.

Cy
 
Cyrokk said:

Oh and here's something I never heard of: according to the instructions, you should try to position the monitor so that it is facing the east to minimize the effects of the earth's magnetic field.

Cy
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Interesting. And not quite as interesting, I accidentally got it right.
 
I have a 19 inch monitor that I am pretty happy with. In fact I have several hardware profiles with different resolutions for gaming, surfing, recording etc. I think it would be cool to have an additional inexpensive monitor to use as an editing window. Sonar supports dual monitors right?
 
Cyrokk said:
This may be slightly off topic, but we just bought a 19" NEC MultiSync FP955 for a gaming pc we ordered. For heavy graphics, 19" is about as big as you will want it because larger sizes will tend to distort the graphics. I've also heard complaints from gamers about the graphic quality of flat screens.
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Yes, my 17" flat CRT does have some noticeable distortion, but I'm not doing professional graphics (that's my sister's dept.) and it's not enough to bother me.

Oh and here's something I never heard of: according to the instructions, you should try to position the monitor so that it is facing the east to minimize the effects of the earth's magnetic field.
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That's funny. I finally got around to moving my mix desk onto the W wall of my room so that my near-fields are pointed lengthwise (toward the east). I think there is less distortion on the CRT.That or it's being farther away from the nexxus of wires I discovered in the other wall. I was experimenting with some small, unshielded speakers yesterday and if I put them anywhere near the 17" it would turn purple and bow really bad. The Trinitron would just bow a little.

Or it could just be my imagination. :eek: :D
 
19" running 1600x1280@75Hz

Unfortunately I have a manual switchbox for my 2 PCs that kinda ruins my image quality, I'm getting a shadow on everything... :(


Herwig
 
Encountered the switch box shadowing at work when we used CRT's.

if your Monitor has a BNC out you can hook that up to your 2nd PC and switch using the VGA/BNC switcher as well as the switch box...means pressing buttons twice but you get better quality.
 
Track Rat said:
I have a 21" Mitsubishi. It sets kind of far from me so I keep it set at 1024x768. I use this thing for editing so I like the display BIG.
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Thats where Im thinking, I dont like being trapped about 2 ft in front of the monitor all the damn time and having to pan to see things cause I can`t see everything at once on the screen. I`d like to have it about 4 ft away from me and BIG.
 
I wish I had a 21" but it was too expensive for my budget. Besides if I had to buy something 21" I would buy a TV and later on save and get the monitor....
 
alonso said:
I wish I had a 21" but it was too expensive for my budget. Besides if I had to buy something 21" I would buy a TV and later on save and get the monitor....
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this brings up an interesting point... with so many AGP cards having TV outs these days, anyone using a TV (high res or otherwise) in place of a monitor or a combination of the 2...

just wondering cause I know computer desktops usually don't show up too well on "regular" TVs when you switch it over to the TV out to watch a movie or something, but do not know how well it shows up on high res or high def TVs...
 
Good point JD. Has anyone used a High definiton TV with a computer? Or heard anything about it?
 
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