Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/13/63 11:26

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Jim Higson wrote:

> If you know of a desktop TFT, 19 inches or bigger that does very high
> pixels per inch please let me know. It's about time someone put a laptop
> resolution panel a desktop casing.

Well, a web search suggests, if money is no object: ViewSonic VP2290b

A 22-inch display with resolution up to 3,840 x 2,400

And a price tag not far short of GBP 5K

The comparable IBM T221 display was stated to have been reduced from $13K
to $8K in 2002, but I can't find what it would cost nowadays (if still
available).


But seriously...

At any rate, there are TFT/LCD displays on the consumer market with dot
pitches from 0.297mm to 0.20mm, which in round numbers is a linear factor
of 1.5:1

That kind of factor sure makes a difference in the text display stakes,
just as it did in the CRT era when I compared an acquaintance's CRT
display set below 90dpi, against mine set at around 135dpi (to the disdain
of the peanut gallery who told me I had no business to set it higher than
the CRT's inherent dot pitch, but it worked for me).


Those high-res displays I mentioned at the start still cost an arm and a
leg, for sure. But I remember when, for example, a twelve-port 10Mbit
ethernet hub cost GBP1K: things change, and I suspect the video games
industry is a powerful driver for high-resolution fast-response displays
at an affordable price.

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