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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/15/05 04:41
Alan J. Flavell wrote:
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> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
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>>Alan J. Flavell wrote:
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>>>Meantime, perhaps Spartanicus would care to write to Iiyama and lecture them
>>>in corresponding terms about their CRT displays, since, according to them,
>>>their Visionmaster Pro 454 19" display (e.g HM903DTB) supports resolutions
>>>(their term) up to 2048x1536.
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>>Not sure what kind of voodoo formula was used to get that resolution
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> I read it directly off Iiyama's technical data for the model in question,
> consulted from their web page alongside my news posting window. There is
> no mistake. Their URL is a boggleworthy query string secreted in a
> frameset, or I would have cited it. Well:
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> http://www.iiyama.co.uk/pages/content.asp?SID=&NAV=236&DOC=0&PARAMS=DATASHEET&PARAMS2=0&PCAT=1&PTUBE=&PROD=2248&PAGE=0
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>>On a 19" that would make text very small.
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> 1.0em was the size that I wanted it, and very readable. That's the whole
> point, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
Had the wrong suffix on the model number, they do list the ...TB as
2048x1536. I still say on a 19" monitor at that resolution unrealistic,
everything will be minuscule. At about 145 PPI a Windows 16x16 icon will
be only just a tad over a 1/10 of an inch! Now on a 24" or maybe on a
21" monitor....
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Jonathan
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