Buying Guide: 19” LCD TFT monitor

Buying Guide: 19" LCD TFT monitor

For the past days I am moving around Sadar Bazaar, Big Bazaar, TDI Mall, E-Zone, Sanjay Place, Shah Market in Agra with one goal: to buy a LCD TFT monitor or TV. Lots of reading, research…26" LCD TV also came in to picture, thank god I have not mixed my PC experience with a TV. A TV has to be separate. Also a HDTV resolution / quality / clarity is less.Finally settled down to Samsung 920NW. Wide monitors have very long horizontal view 1440 x 900 resolution. Disadvantages of Wide Screen:

· Wikipedia is a long horizontal line to read.

· Screen is delicate. Can't tolerate some hot coffee on it. Old CRT glasses are tolerant on any edibles falling on it.

· 19" wide screen is 6.8% less screen area than 19" normal.

· Vast empty spaces of screen in Google results, ms word, and browsing pages designed for 800 x 600.

Advantage of Wide Screen:

· Less scrolling :- view of doc, pdf files, web pages benefited

· The aspect ratio of A4 paper is 1.414, which is closer to a widescreen monitor ratio for print previews in the landscape

· Highest resolution format; still far ahead of HDTV [Wikipedia says]

· They give out less heat, no UV, no flickr, no headache.

· Closest to normal human field of vision

· Preferred by big action, event, or epic films

· More eye movements. Your eye go to the end of the screen both sides, which means your eyes work more, so it is natural, it is lubricated.

· HEALTH is major benefit of the LCD TFT wide monitor users.

· Also the wide monitor means, the 1440 x 900 native resolution makes the horizontal mouse movements also longer.

· To help my hands, I just increased the Mouse Speed from Control Panel > Mouse settings. Now my hands are less tired.

· Offline Browsing is Excellent in wide screen. As we will be having a left side panel "HISTORY" or "FOLDERS" or "SEARCH" or "FAVORITES" etc… the right side panel / frame of the Explorer is now able to fully show the contents of the webpage or things.

· Google Earth pages is SUPERB on wide screen

· Wikimapia is EXCELLENT on wide – whole earth can be Scrolled.. Panned..

· Yahoo India road maps runs COOL on wide

· Google maps too same…

· So I am more than happy to have gone wide, barring earlier scepticism.

· I migrated from my 1997 LG CRT model Studioworks 420i.

· Mouse now runs longer distance to do the second to second operation like closing/minimise/maximise of the window.

· Wide monitor users will have less carpel tunnel syndrome dis. also.As it is, the LCD TFT are consuming less power – just 40w.

· Also seeing DVD movies on 16:10 wide format is real pleasure! Because in life all are on wide format, in fact, life is 360 degree.I think in future, monitors also will come in 360 degrees, but our work area in life is always focussed with our two hands, say 30 degrees.

Pasupathi Kumarappan.
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