30" scaling modes

[BoB-O TiVo]

Hey all,

Getting a new monitor for our home office. There's enough room for a 30" LCD. My wife's laptop is running 1024x768 and she doesn't have the best vision. It would be nice to have 1024x768 scaled exactly 2x to 2048x1536 and have black bars all around. Do any monitors allow this?

Thanks,
BoB

 

[RedShark]

You may also consider the "font size" feature in Windows, which scales up the size of text without reducing the resolution. The advantage is that the text is much clearer than it would be using the scaling you're considering.

If you have another LCD, try running it at 1/4 the native resolution to be sure your wife will tolerate the effect. You could also compare it with simply scaling up the font size.

Here's a link with more:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061211/vista-dpi-scaling/

 

[Deusfaux]

the monitor won't matter because that feature is built into all ati and nvidia drivers.

now if you have integrated intel that might not be an option...


oh hmm now I realise it's coming out of a laptop - Gateway XHD3000 and Dell 3008 have scaling but I don't know if they do it correctly.

They couldnt do it the way you describe. They only show 1:1 (thus we come back to my previous comments and the laptop having to do the scaling), or aspect, which is when it touches the appropriate sides while maintaing aspect.

In Aspect mode, you could send any 4:3 signal you wanted (like 1024x768) and the monitor (assuming its scaling worked as advertised) would blow it up to roughly 2133 x 1600 (a 4:3 aspect)