Recent content by theriverlethe

Pssst... You need to be only five or six feet from a 42" TV to see 1080P.

Agreed, they look pretty incredible. Acer claims that their G24 has 50,000:1 dynamic contrast, but I haven't seen them available anywhere, and Acer is the reason I'm in the market for a new monitor anyway.

Are there any LCD "monitors" comparable to LCD HDTV's in terms of black level and contrast ratio?

What about the dynamic contrast? How does it perform in dark scenes?

I have found by trial and error that Steam is preventing sleep.

Do you notice any input lag on this display? Do you have the ability to test for it?

Does anyone have any idea what the difference between these two displays will be?

Does anyone have any experience using one of this series as a computer display? Are there issues with overscan, input lag, etc.? Will my 8800GTS be able to work with 120 Hz? Is there any way to output 24 frames/second from PowerDVD?

I'm wrong, it wasn't OpenCASE that was waking the computer. I believe it was ehsched (Part of Windows Media Center). Regardless, the problem is that the system simply will not go to sleep on its own. I have no problem sleeping manually. I've tried getting rid of every background program I...

Ban?

I was wrong again, it wasn't the Deathadder. I matched the time of the "power event" to OpenCASE Media Agent under the applications tree, so hopefully removing that will solve the problem.

Thanks for the tip, although I had already done that. ;) I think I fixed it by updating my Deathadder mouse firmware.

I should've clarified. My computer will sleep if I initiate it manually. However, it wakes up hours later for no apparent reason, and will not resume sleep. Event viewer shows: 1. DHCP-Client - Your computer was successfully assigned an address from the network, and it can now connect to...

I have my computer set to sleep in 30 minutes. It never does. In fact, it often wakes from S3 and will not go back to sleep. How do I find out what's preventing the computer from sleeping?

For $200 - $300, you could get a decent pair of headphones...