Scaling artifacts: LCD vs Plasma

[Ilwrath]

I am using a 19 inch Sony Multiscan Trinitron[...]

You mispelt "Herniatron".  :-D  I've carted around lots of monitors, and I always cringe when I see a Sony monitor that needs to be moved.

Anyhow, I think the more modern LCD high-resolution displays do a lot better job than the older ones.  A friend of mine has one of the new Dell 21" flat panels LCDs, and I must say, it's beautiful in just about any resolution.  The first LCD that I'd consider an improvement over my ViewSonic GS815.

[d0pefish]

You mispelt "Herniatron". :-D I've carted around lots of monitors, and I always cringe when I see a Sony monitor that needs to be moved.

No kidding!! :-o I had to carry the damn thing up two flights of stairs to my attic-bedroom! :cry:

[alewis]

Correct. These standards predate Windows, well, recognisable versions - lets not forget Windows 1.0 was around in 1985, and VESA wasn't established until 1989, to standardise support for 800x600 displays.

And even if MS had a bearing on it, could you really expect anyone to predict that 15 years later we'd be watching movies on a computer?

maffoo wrote:

leirbag28 wrote:

the Problem is Microsoft!

Wasn't the VGA standard defined by someone else (VESA springs to mind?) My understanding is that graphics cards support specific resolutions such as 320x240, 640x480 etc. and Windows naturally uses these resolutions. As much as I dislike Microsoft I don't think it's fair to blame them for this.

[leirbag28]

@alewis

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And even if MS had a bearing on it, could you really expect anyone to predict that 15 years later we'd be watching movies on a computer?
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Yes! absolutely!  I got one word:  AMIGA.....   since 1985 it was known immediately!

problem is..IBM and all other machines were already conforming to COmputer screens and saw the Amiga as a Toy!  Big mistake........look at computers today! doing what Amiga was doing in 1985 - 1990's

it's their own fault that they struggle with video..they lacked Vision.


Also, even though Microsoft didnt invent the VGA standard...they most certainlky popularized the screen modes.

even Mac resolutions were different and closer to video.


Computers are becoming what Amigas were...............Funny!



PC's would have loved to become what Amigas were even in the 1980's you can see the attempts...............

just watch the COMPUTER CHRONICLES tv series.

[DamageX]

problem is..IBM and all other machines were already conforming to COmputer screens and saw the Amiga as a Toy! Big mistake........

VGA said goodbye to low resolution displays. Sure, you need additional hardware if you want genlock, composite video, etc. But many Amiga users have additional hardware just for the sake of having a readable workbench (scandoubler/deinterlacer, graphics card)

Also note that 640x480, 800x600, etc. have square pixels. 720x480 comes from hardware designers being cheap and using one crystal to derive both the pixel clock and the NTSC color carrier, the outer edges of that size image are not even visible on most TVs.