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Show Your LCD(s) setups!!!
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It's a KTM X-bow
it's a 4 cylinder car, so it can't be expensive, right?
where do I find a big wallpaper of that car? as their link only shows tiny image.
http://www.ktm-x-bow.com/Gallery.624.0.html#close
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hey thanks a lot for the link. On a sidenote, If there is a track record developed by this car for a few yr., and there is a roof, I would buy one
Not a bad car. BTW your room wallpaper color looks nice. And also can you tell me what kind of desk that is? It looks like it has a huge surface area.
The Ariel Atom is similar to this car but a fair bit faster, cheaper too... although still no roof.
It's paint, not wallpaper
and the desk is from Ikea, called a Jonas.
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very nice super clean looking setup and I especially love the orange accent of the new G15 with your walls and the indirect lighting from behind the LCDs.. it all flows velly velly nicely.
very nice super clean looking setup and I especially love the orange accent of the new G15 with your walls and the indirect lighting from behind the LCDs.. it all flows velly velly nicely.
I really like the Orange backlight on the new G15s. If only they kept the flap LCD and the volume control.
facesnorth
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Ariel atom looks ugly. But go back to the other car, I just notice something. The co. is in Italy. They haven't sell any car until spring 2008. So how can the driver's wheel be on the left? In Italy, I thought the wheel is on the right?
montypythizzle
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No, Not really, the contrast ratio is crap (still better than my old BenQ from 2 years ago), clearly shown in the movie trailers with some white on the screen. Look at the black, clearly some contamination into the black.
So no, not "amazing" and it was not "1080p" the most he could get is 720p.
Is that all I could help you guys with today?
If only... they're KEF Cresta 10s
I assume they make them to order, considering the type of car they are... or they done a horizontal flip in photoshop
Actually the contrast ratio is just fine, the exposure time was a little long on that shot hence the 'contamination'.
Also, the monitor can do 1080p as its native resolution is 1920x1200.
Is that all I could help you with today?
skyline889
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Do you just enjoy crapping on nearly every set-up you see in this thread? How about posting a picture of your set-up? If you understood the way a camera works, you'd know that exposure values can make or break how a monitor appears in a photo. Contrast, color saturation, color accuracy, sharpness, black levels, white balance, etc for the most part, are determined by how the shot is taken and the sensor/lens shooting it.
If you overexpose a shot, the monitor will look like crap no matter what kind of set-up you're running, underexpose it or take a flash shot during one of the refreshes and the monitor will appear like it's either really dark or not even on,
shoot out of focus and the monitor will of course be blurry, shoot at 1.4 and a small portion of the shot will be in focus and everything else will be bokeh, shoot with a fisheye and your monitor will look like a dish, etc, etc, none of which have anything to do with how the monitor acutally looks like in person. In my opinion, it's pretty hard to judge a monitor from just a snapshot and the only firm thing that I can really tell when I look at one is if the owner took a shot of the monitor with a black background to show light bleed. I know I've seen a few shots here that looked great (ie Westinghouse 24") but when I went to check out the monitor/tv in store, I was a little dissapointed and vice versa.Now back to your regular scheduled programming.
Let's see some more Westy 37"/42" set-ups please! I'm dying to upgrade already and need an excuse to go down to BB. montypythizzle
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Oh, ok, I saw that post about it being 1680X1050 and scaling of 4:3 content, so I assumed it was a 22" monitor.
I clicked on the little red arrow that takes you to the post it was quoted from and I saw that.
Hmm, mixup.
Anyway, EWW, poor contrast ratio.
Personally I am saving up for this:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8580733&type=product&id=1190676939795
So I have no money to waste on silly old 24" monitors. My BenQ FP72G+s is fine for the size of my desk.
Do you just enjoy crapping on nearly every set-up you see in this thread? How about posting a picture of your set-up? If you understood the way a camera works, you'd know that exposure values can make or break how a monitor appears in a photo. Contrast, color saturation, color accuracy, sharpness, black levels, white balance, etc for the most part, are determined by how the shot is taken and the sensor/lens shooting it.
If you overexpose a shot, the monitor will look like crap no matter what kind of set-up you're running, underexpose it or take a flash shot during one of the refreshes and the monitor will appear like it's either really dark or not even on,
Now back to your regular scheduled programming.
The 37's I believe are great (almost got one through the costco deal but UPS f-ed up my package), however the TX42 is a bit too compromised in its price range. I had an excuse to go to BB and upgraded to a 4066f over BF, for less than what I paid for the TX42. I would have returned the TX42 if I could have but since I can't (bought in july, wayyy past 30 day period), the wife got an upgrade from 21.3 to 42"
. She's not as picky as I am and is if anything still impressed with its size. In the future it'll be the kids TV for dvds and what notYou do realise that isn't actually 15,000:1 contrast ratio in static terms, at best it's ~2,000:1, also some of the best (and most expensive) projectors in the world 'only' have a contrast ratio of 1200:1...
Less talk, more pics
What he said! ... and yes I know, this is more talk lol
do you know that this lcd has only 720p! you can get 1080p for less or same money.
TridenT_Boy3555
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Still 720P :-/
I'd save up and get 1080P, you get like over twice the pixels.
I'd save up and get 1080P, you get like over twice the pixels.
montypythizzle
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IDK, it doesn't say dynamic contrast ratio, so I believe it will still have better contrast than anything at about the same price.
Eh, it is a Plasma... a 42" 1080p Plasma is around 1800.... and that is a Phillips I believe... Phillips aren't too bad, they aren't as innovative as they used to be however.
42" 1080p Westinghouse for about 1100, still... Westinghouse is more budget, but last time I went into Best Buy it seems to be the only one in the store with the brightness and contrast NOT out of line.... The Pioneers still looked the best (albeit 2000+ price tag) ^_^
I would agree with you if this was over 60" and was used for daily computer usage.
It is not, therefore 720p is fine.
Yes, I cannot look at a gray screen when watching a dark movie. My second choice is a Panasonic AX200U: http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-.../model.PT-AX200U-EC_11002_7000000000000005702
Any size picture I want but no tuner, and more tweaking with a projector, and I don't have a screen.
Anywho, who wants to sit in the dark to watch the Super Bowl?!?!
TridenT_Boy3555
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Racist! :-P
There are a few technologies that surpass plasma, but for the general consumer you are correct.
Less talk, more pics
...it has been a little chatty lately, i'll post these up again just to get things going...
gateway 30" flanked by two princeton 17"s pivoted vertically
apple ibook + samsung 225bw run dual screen
...ikea desks for the zen look, of course
there it is...let's see the photos!
theDreamer
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xdesix:
What television is that, and also the stand which you are using? Thanks.
What television is that, and also the stand which you are using? Thanks.
the tv is a 46" samsung DLP, not an LCD but oh well it works great and was cheap. the stand was some random stand i got from circuit city, i can't remember the name nor the model and i think they stopped selling it.
its a z-line brand model number 23541s working in the warehouse at circuit city for 3 years will cause you to know the exact model of a stand at first sight.
BrinNutz, I cleaned my office, I will take a couple of pictures of my tiny Office/gaming/DAW setup, and you can then poke holes at it.
Hopefully that will provide a fix.
I'm waiiiiiittttiinnngg....
NukeULater
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Heres mine! Specs in sig...
