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Pkirk618

Pkirk618

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I have a 19" lcd and to be honest, this is the best res I could find that meets my every need.

How many of you all use this? I ask since its not a highly notable resouluton often seen in these threads.
 
The first 20 people reading this will wonder why you are using a non-native resolution on your lcd. Unless you have some oddball 19" lcd, you should be using 1280x1024.

1280x960 is a nice resolution for 19" crts, though.
 
Everything is so small with that res...I really like this one. Will this hurt my LCD?
 
Pkirk618 said:
Everything is so small with that res...I really like this one.
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to paraphrase: "Everything is so distorted with that res..." :rolleyes:

Pkirk618 said:
Everything is so small with that res...I really like this one.
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also, I fail to see how small is a good thing but- it will be even smaller (shorter) with native res so... :confused:
 
Pro:
3:4 aspect ratio

Con:
You're missing out on 81,920 pixels if your native is 1280x1024

I don't understand why 19" panels are 1024px high and not 960.
 
so running it this way is common?

Does it hurt it to run at this res?
 
Pkirk618 said:
so running it this way is common?

Does it hurt it to run at this res?
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No it can't hurt your LCD to run at a res other than the native. I don't know if it's common. If its any consolation I don't.
 
I doubt it matters to the LCD. It's happy to stretch it out. Do whatever is comfortable for your eyes.
 
Instead, you can learn to increase the font size of your OS and applications.
Using non-native res doesn't hurt your LCD, but hurt the image quality.
 
Arael said:
Instead, you can learn to increase the font size of your OS and applications.
Using non-native res doesn't hurt your LCD, but hurt the image quality.
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The image quality only suffers @ <native if the LCD stretches the image over all the pixels. My LCD only does stretching when the res' aspect ratio is at or close to the native, so I can do a kind of letterboxed widescreen thing in games if I want.
 
Pkirk618 said:
I have a 19" lcd and to be honest, this is the best res I could find that meets my every need.

How many of you all use this? I ask since its not a highly notable resouluton often seen in these threads.
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Its just plain stupid to use 1280x960 on 5:4 aspect LCD like yours must be. Thats why you need to use 1280x1024.

1280x960 is 4:3 aspect and right for CRT displays that are also 4:3 aspect.
1280x1024 is 5:4 aspect and right for LCD that have native 5:4 aspect
 
The one downside to a 5:4 AR in my opinion is that all images my camera takes and almost all wallpapers (with the exception of those specifically made for 12x10) are 3:4, so I either have to put a 32 px letterbox on the top and bottom of wallpaper, or deal with 64 px of vertical stretching. Being somewhat of a visual purist this annoys me to no end.
 
I've never gamed at 1280X1024 unless I was forced to..

1280X960 looks much better...1280X1024 being a 5:4 aspect ratio always looked skinny...everything appears stretched to me.
 
corebreach said:
The one downside to a 5:4 AR ..... so I either have to put a 32 px letterbox on the top and bottom of wallpaper, or deal with 64 px of vertical stretching. Being somewhat of a visual purist this annoys me to no end.
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- or you could crop them so they will be 5:4 :cool:
 
Its just plain stupid to use 1280x960 on 5:4 aspect LCD like yours must be. Thats why you need to use 1280x1024.
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Thanks for the almighty words of wisdom.

I like my setting as is...I just want to make sure it wont hurt anything. It does not hurt my eyes or give me headaches so there it is.

everyone else, thanks for the input
 
But just remember a circle will never be a circle but an oval instead on yours Pkirk618 :p
 
bytor33 said:
But just remember a circle will never be a circle but an oval instead on yours :p
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1280x1024 is still adressing all those pixels correctly, it ain't stretching unless its on a crt. I win. :)
 
hehe, here we go again.....

corebreach said:
1280x1024 is still adressing all those pixels correctly, it ain't stretching unless its on a crt. I win. :)
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he's not using 1280x1024... that's kind of the point here :rolleyes:
 
_jd_ said:
hehe, here we go again.....



he's not using 1280x1024... that's kind of the point here :rolleyes:
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I assumed he wasn't using the stretching on his LCD from 960>1024.
 
johto said:
Its just plain stupid to use 1280x960 on 5:4 aspect LCD like yours must be. Thats why you need to use 1280x1024.
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It's plain stupid to call people stupid.
 
is there an example of something that wont look right at this resoulution so I could compare to the native one?
 
also, this circle thing. Not sure what you mean, shapes look good to me.
 
ThomasE66 said:
It's plain stupid to call people stupid.
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I didnt say HE was stupid. Just the act of using wrong resolutions and aspect ratios is "stupid".
 
johto said:
I didnt say HE was stupid. Just the act of using wrong resolutions and aspect ratios is "stupid".
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Ok :)

Still, if it looks good to him it's not stupid.
 
Look real close at your screen until you can see the individual squares or pixels and space between them. On an 19inch LCD there should be exactly 1280 across and 1024 down. So it has 1280*1024 built in, and that's why that is called the native resolution so each pixel lands on the built in pixel.

Now, if you run at 1280*960, it's going to have to stretch it vertically to make that 960 fit up and down the 1024 built in. This had to be then interpolated and blurred because odd things will happen where a pixel is now larger than the built in ones and can land inbetween them. That really effects image quality. And since it stretches things, now squares and circles might look taller than they should.

It won't hurt anything, but I don't see how you can find 1024 so small compared to such a little change as 960. And yes, some pics won't fit your aspect ratio at 1280*1024, but you can crop your images to fit or have it center and cut off the sides. I mean my LCD is 1680*1050 and I don't run at 1280*960 just so photos fit.

If text is to small, go into display properties, then settings, then advance, and in the first window up the dpi setting a bit.
 
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