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Well done User N. Good to see someone so enthusiastic to help others
out. I learn't quite a lot myself for your hard earned nose to the grind.
ricardo
User N wrote:
>
> "Pinger" <Pinger@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:aYGdnU_B-qNcTIXfRVn-oQ@adelphia.com...
>
>> [] Although another question I would like to pose is picture size,
>> seems to me a 17" flat panel LCD looks to be the same size picture
>> wise to an 19" CRT (regular monitor we have now). Is this true or just
>> a optical illusion on my part??
>
>
> It just so happens that tonight I was gathering/generating some related
> data, and in case you are interested, here it is. For proper alignment,
> copy/paste the following into notepad or some other editor that uses
> fixed width fonts.
>
> In the following table, "Display Width" and "Display Height" are for
> the viewable area of the displays.
>
> Monitor Display Width Display Height Aspect Ratio Native Res
> 17" CRT 12.5 9.4 4:3 N/A
> 19" CRT 14 10.5 4:3 N/A
> 1704FPT LCD 13.3 10.6 5:4 1200x1024
> 1801FP LCD 14.1 11.3 5:4 1200x1024
> 1905FP LCD 14.8 11.9 5:4 1200x1024
> 2001FP LCD 16.1 12.1 4:3 1600x1200
> 2005WFP LCD 17 10.7 8:5 1680x1050
>
> Below are figures for what I'll call "logical pixels per inch" (LPPI).
> If a
> monitor is 12.5" wide and running at 1024x768, there will be approx
> 1024/12.5 logical pixes per inch. I say "logical" so that there is no
> confusion with LCD panels, where the 1024 logical pixels will be scaled
> to the N physical pixels of the display. Assuming all other things are
> equal
> (Windows is using the same DPI, fonts size prefs are the same, etc),
> I believe the following gives one some idea of how large things will look
> on the various displays. For example, a 19" CRT at 1024x768 displays
> roughly 73 LPPI. On a 2001FP, that same resolution would produce
> roughly 63.5 LPPI. Thus the same text or picture would appear approx
> 13% larger on the 2001FP at that resolution.
>
> Notes: The greater the difference between horizontal LPPI and vertical
> LPPI, the more elongated text and images will be. If you run an LCD
> display at a non-native resolution, the image quality will be reduced. In
> some cases a little bit, in some cases alot.
>
> Logical PPI data (hLPPI = hRes/dWidth, vLPPI = vRes/dHeight)...
>
> 17" CRT
> 1024x768: hLPPI = 81.92, vLPPI = 81.7
> 1152x864: hLPPI = 92.16, vLPPI = 91.91
> 1280x1024: hLPPI = 102.4, vLPPI = 108.94
>
> 19" CRT
> 1024x768: hLPPI = 73.14, vLPPI = 73.14
> 1152x864: hLPPI = 82.29, vLPPI = 82.29
> 1280x1024: hLPPI = 91.43, vLPPI = 97.52
>
> 1704FPT LCD
> 1024x768: hLPPI = 76.99, vLPPI = 72.45
> 1152x864: hLPPI = 86.62, vLPPI = 81.51
> 1280x1024: hLPPI = 96.24, vLPPI = 96.6 (native)
>
> 1801FP LCD
> 1024x768: hLPPI = 72.62, vLPPI = 67.96
> 1152x864: hLPPI = 81.7, vLPPI = 76.46
> 1280x1024: hLPPI = 90.78, vLPPI = 90.62 (native)
>
> 1905FP LCD
> 1024x768: hLPPI = 69.19, vLPPI = 64.54
> 1152x864: hLPPI = 77.84, vLPPI = 72.61
> 1280x1024: hLPPI = 86.49, vLPPI = 86.05 (native)
>
> 2001FP LCD
> 1024x768: hLPPI = 63.6, vLPPI = 63.47
> 1152x864: hLPPI = 71.55, vLPPI = 71.4
> 1280x1024: hLPPI = 79.5, vLPPI = 84.63
> 1600x1200: hLPPI = 99.38, vLPPI = 99.17 (native)
>
> 2005WFP LCD
> 1024x768: hLPPI = 60.24, vLPPI = 71.78
> 1152x864: hLPPI = 67.76, vLPPI = 80.75
> 1280x1024: hLPPI = 75.29, vLPPI = 95.7
> 1600x1200: hLPPI = 94.12, vLPPI = 112.15
> 1680x1050: hLPPI = 98.82, vLPPI = 98.13 (native)
>
>
> A 19" CRT at 1024x768 compared to LCDs @ native...
>
> 1704FPT = 96.42 vs 73.14 = 31.8% smaller objects
> 1801FP = 90.7 vs 73.14 = 24% smaller objects
> 1905FP = 86.27 vs 73.14 = 18% smaller objects
> 2001FP = 99.28 vs 73.14 = 35.7% smaller objects
> 2005WFP = 98.48 vs 73.14 = 34.6% smaller objects
>
> Comments/corrections welcome, I cranked this out pretty
> quickly.