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hi all. I just now read that the Incandescent light bulb will not be sold after January 1st! http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/16/new-year-goodbyes-40-and-60-watt-bulbs-disappear-s/ And why is this topic even in a display forum?! because...

hi all. Its me again, the old guy who seems to have endless eye problems with modern monitors. can anyone recommend a 20 inch or so ccfl monitor for me?! one with a good dot pitch if larger than 21". I was in Best Buy again today. I looked at about ten monitors. I left with the very...

hi all. The acer h226hql has arrived. looks good, so far. one small problem: the only "driver" for this monitor seems to be two files, acer.icm and a acer.inf. the color profiles and the like.... windows has a generic driver that works but how would I "install" these two files...

hi all, for probably my last post. So is there a good monitor with a very low pixel pitch, high density pixels, with no PWM and not too expensive, out there? [good thing bestbuy has a good return policy.] I am returning the otherwise good Samsung S27c750P as I *really* notice...

hi all. I bit the bullet for a sapphire hd 7770 videocard. I note that this card covers two slots and thus my pci-e slot will be covered and my creative soundblaster x-fi card is there and thus I will have to remove it to use my onboard sound. onboard. the realtek 97 series , the "HD"...

hi all. I just yesterday bought a Samsung S27c750P at bestbuy for about $330. Afew days before that, I had bought, and returned a HP 25bw. "everyone" there in the sales department raved about how the hp had a much better image compared to the 27" Samsung next to it. So I bought the hp...

hi all. the *end* of my monitor hunting! I had bought, yesterday, the hp 25bw at Best Buy, a wonderful looking monitor. I adjusted the colors, placed it on a low brightness setting, then proceeded to try it out. I returned it today. Best Buy is good for returns. was my return due...

hi all. Oh the travails of monitor hunting! I "merely" wanted something larger than my otherwise good older crt viewsonic 19". I have noticed, over the years, that my peripheral vision seems to be more "developed" than what most people have. Thus my 19" monitor is not large enough. I...

hi all. What is the difference between Samsung S27c230B and Samsung S27c750p?! the 30B is for sale in Office depot at $250 and the 50p is for sale at Best buy for around $295. very few reviews on the 230B, I find. are they really identical? the 750 has no PWM, I read. Now I...

hi all. the CROSSOVER 27" 27QW IPS . is this wonderful sounding but expensive monitor for *me*? Now that this monitor can be bought now in "regular" online store favorite places, I am tempted. I have right now a veiwsonic A90f+ crt maybe 20 inches. the image quality for photos has...

hi all. the pixel format setting for the AMD/ati cards, in the control panel. [Catalyst Control Center General Setting][preferences advanced view] select-My Digital Flat-Panels / select - Pixel Format [Select a pixel format for this display] select - RGB 4:4:4 Pixel Format PC Standard...

for those people who have eyestrain, nausea, with lcd monitors! hi all. I once bought my first lcd, a tn panel glossy screen hp 21". I had terrible eyestrain, dizzyness, nausea even. a spacyness of the head for hours afterwards. no relief. I went back to my aging crt a monitor that...

hi all. sigh. I began this Question several weeks ago. I have become vexed. Here I have an otherwise wonderful NEC ea321wmi monitor and any photo or image that i look at, i see what looks to be a screen door effect over my image. I cannot deny to myself that it is there. if i peer...

hi all. the other day, while still looking for a good monitor, I helped a senior in my building with her television that was hooked up to her laptop. Only 720p but the larger size was impressive and surprisingly good looking. Today i stopped at best buy to see if they had any...

hi all. really struck me, today, how superior glossy is, at least for my eyes! at Panaras this morning, my friend comes in for coffee hour and he brings with him his ipad. he opens it up and turns it on and brings up a photo taken with his sx 100-series canon camera but he took a...

hi all. The new Dell S2440L or S2740L, which might be better for me? the 24' is a mva panel and the 27" is the ips. the 27" has 1080p as the max resolution. I wonder which one might better suit my needs. [this post might not be answerable for weeks, I realize, but soon people will...

hi all... Momitor hunting is getting very complicated! the only thing that i wanted was a 23 to 27 inch monitor to play my games in a good graphics mode and to look at photos and videos, a lot, with. I have a large photo collection on flickr.com. oh not so simple, i thought that an...

hi all. so this is what a matte screen finish, on a lcd monitor, does to image content, as compared to a glossy screen! I have been reading a lot, of late, about the great Debate between matte non-reflective coverings and glossy finishes. So here is an actual test comparison between the two...

hi all. I am typing this out with a nice 18" crt. Viewsonic A90f+. I, once, bought a NECea231wmi lcd, yet another nice monitor. one of the reasons why I have not used that NEC so much is that when i look up close, and i do a lot, i notice a "screendoor effect" in the graphics, especially...

hi all. I have now a radeon hd5770 and it *just* fits in my case. the card just fits above my wonderful sound card, the sound card fits into a tiny special slot so i cannot use my bottom pci slots. Any thicker card will cover this tiny soundcard slot. I am Investigating buying a more...

hi all. I have a strange driver install "issue", one that Google could not help me with! I installed a new HIS HD 6770. I uninstalled my nvidia 8800gt, cleaned the registry of nvidia entries, ala ccleaner and Glary. when I used the ati 11.11 driver package, from ati, the install began...

hi all. I want to buy the 6670, I have a HIS hd 6770 in mind, the "non-ice" version. HIS H677FN1GD Radeon HD 6770 the sapphire hd 5570 that i have now *just* fits in the "thickness" department. any tiny more thicker and I cannot use that card. what peeves me is that the more I look...

hi all. my currant videocard, a ati HD5750 plans to play Skyrim, do I need a better video card, but I have an Emachine with a E5400 pentium intel processor? the ole "cpu limiting problem" surfaces! would indeed such an upgrade make much difference? Oh there are the brands of...

hi all. I recently got a Xfx 5770 card and installed it but I have a "beloved" crt viewsonic G220fb monitor. I discovered a strange and interesting thing. Yes, i know that I had to use a converter to get the output to go to the crt monitor, vga. Interesting, the resolution I was using...

hi all. well I finally installed my XFX 5770 card, yesterday, I replaced my older ati 5570 card. emachine win 7 64x viewsonic 22" CRT. 11.2 drivers, catalyst. here are some of my observations so far, and some small concerns and a question or two, if anyone here is interested. I was...

Hi all. I have a new xfx ati 5770 card ready to install, I am using the 5570 now, and Here I wonder what is the best stable driver, for my favorite rpgs, Morrowind and Oblivion?! I have windows 7 64x and a emachine processor, the bottleneck for sure, but I might be able to have a higher...

I see at bestbuy there is this for sale at $69

hi all. do they make any 24" to 30" plasma panels for computer monitors?! if not, they should!! This afternoon I was again at Best buy and i watched for a while one of those 50" plasma flat panel TVs. Incredible. the prices have gone down a lot, lately. What I notice, and for me...

:( hi all. I cannot install the drivers for my new Sapphire HD 5570 card!! I tried twice, over two weeks. ---the first time I made a boo boo, I uninstalled the driver in device manager, first, thus not "uninstalling" my old sapphire 4650 video card. when I tried to install the...

hi all. Here I have a new, gotten from Newegg, a newly arrived sapphire hd 5570 1 gig ddr3 ram ATI video card and I am afraid to install it! Not that a *cannot* install it, it is that every driver version that I read about, for the 5000 series, seems to scare me! Blue screens of death...

hello all. which "lesser", cheaper ATI video card would improve my Oblivion game, the "more bang for the buck" card. i have the HD 4650, now. but first... I have an emachine dual core intel E5400 processor. win 7 with 4 gigs ram I have now a Ati HD 4650 card with 512 megs of DDR2...

hi all. *again* I finding that the NEC 23" IPS EA231WMi to be a good maybe-monitor to buy. How do this monitor compare to the apple cinema series, 21" and 27"?! But I cannot find a store that has a nec 23" for me to look at. but there are the apple computers with apparently...

hello all. Tonight I wish to write about eyestrain with LCD monitors. Why is it that I seem to have problems with eye strain with some of these monitors and not all models, even with the same tn panel, bothers me equally?! I am now using a crt, no problem there, a 20" diagonal. [but some...

hi all. I feel Overwhelmed at the choices! I began my morning trying to look up available 24"" to 27" monitors, to buy, I have two computers, each with a nvidia gt250 and 8800gt cards, capable of driving a large screen monitor. I ended up, two hours later with 15 windows open and I Am...

hi all. At my loval best buy they have an online order-only ASUS tft-panel VE245H for $249. I cannot find a single thing about this new monitor here in the forums! Has anyone tried this one? specs.... I only looked a few minutes, so far, in google and I have yet to find much...

hi all. the Insignia NS-L32X-10A 32" LCD. Well, I was at Best buy today to look at their Insignia brand LCD TVs, their house brand. I had just read in a consumer magazine that these televisions are very good for the price. *and*....I was really interested to see if a 32" or a 37" might...

hi all. Here I have a $300 dilemma. Should I send off, pig-in-a-poke, screen unseen, to buy a Dell lcd 2209wa ips panel monitor? ah, a small problem! I have a hp w2338h tn monitor sitting, now, under my desk, unused. A nice monitor. Gives to me some eye-strain and a sort of a...