20.1 Inch widescreen compared to 17inch TFT.

Noni. · 2 Jun 2006 at 10:30

Is there a noticable difference?

I heard its just a 17inch tft with bits on the side. Has anyone got any pics of comparison or some dimensions (like 40cm x50cm).

Thanks!

Hamish · 2 Jun 2006 at 11:02

the 20" is about 5mm higher, but loads wider.

Noni. · 2 Jun 2006 at 11:08

Thank you hamish!

Could I please have a close up of the 2 monitors side by side. That would help loads

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I saw the apple cinema display (20inch) in a purple PC shop and it was not as big as I expected, but my 17inch was not there for comparison.

jamena · 2 Jun 2006 at 12:04

I just went from a 19" CRT (18.1 visible) to a 20" wide TFT. The tft doesn't look bigger until I turn it on, at which point there seems like a helluva lot more desktop to play with!

dimensions for comparison (try drawing them to scale on a bit of paper or something perhaps?

16:10 wide

h=10.6
w=17.0
d=20.0

Regular 4:3

h=10.2
w=13.6
d=17.0

Noni. · 2 Jun 2006 at 12:27

Thanks for the responses, I will draw em out (what I was planning to do

).

Thanks!

Raymond Lin · 2 Jun 2006 at 13:38

Noni. · 2 Jun 2006 at 14:23

Now thats very very helpful.

Does not look that much bigger...Hmmm

Thanks mate!

joeyjojo · 2 Jun 2006 at 16:35

jamena said:
I just went from a 19" CRT (18.1 visible) to a 20" wide TFT

I'm thinking about making the same switch, 19 crt to 20 widescreen tft, so im glad its noticably better.

Noni. said:
Does not look that much bigger

You dont think so? I think the widescreen looks a fair bit bigger, would defintely help with photoshop etc.

Thanks guys, very helpful.

Warlock5432 · 2 Jun 2006 at 17:11

offtopic

omg hamish how did you print that family guy wall art its class!

Nix · 2 Jun 2006 at 17:22

Warlock5432 said:
offtopic

omg hamish how did you print that family guy wall art its class!

It's a rasterbation.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

jamena · 2 Jun 2006 at 17:33

Noni. said:
Now thats very very helpful.

Does not look that much bigger...Hmmm

Thanks mate!

You should see each screen with a webpage or something open in similarly sized windows, or photoshop, or two documents side by side...also games seem rather nice too (after 5 minutes playing) even if some of them basically zoom in and lop chunks off the top/bottom (BF2). The vx2025 is VERY bright compared to my iiyama VMpro454 I think, needs a little taming

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