Recent content by kevp

I gave up cable two years ago. I live in a bigger city, so I get local channels in High Def over the air thru my antenna just fine. Between netflix "watch now" on my XB360 and hulu on my computer in the office, I really only miss a couple of channels.

I am currently struggling with this issue. The problem occurs when you isntall the video drivers. It will run fine if I remove video drivers and use the standard VGA adapter driver. But when I install nVidia drivers, upon reboot when the login screen should appear the monitor goes into sleep...

How does one go about calibrating the color to get it as accurate as possible without buying an actual spyder or calibrator? Can someone explain to me the basics of color profiles and whatnot? I have downloaded the Microsoft powertoy applet for coloring, but it apparently just loads or...

Do you have MS Clear Type turned on? It's a font AA that is essential for LCD use: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

The haze you see is the anti-glare coating that Viewsonic decided to use on this monitor. It's totally personal preference. Some like the glossy coatings that glare like crazy, and others like the anti-glare coatings. I personally don't mind the coating, it's invisible to me. The images are...

LOL if you centered the image, it would be about 6"x8.25" surrounded by a sea of black

Ya, I'm at work right now, but I'll try to update this post with pics later tonight. I have had a little more time with the monitor since, and I am definately having zero problems with centering a non-native rez or fixed aspect scaling. Everything works the way it's supposed to. UPDATE...

I registered and stopped lurking just for this thread. I just got this monitor. So far so good. I just wanted to comment on the fixed aspect ratio problem that some were having earlier. I have no problem centering my games at different resolutions or using the fixed aspect ratio. I just use...