Two Monitors at a Time
Even how high the resolution of your monitor is, it seems that it is not enough especially for persons who are used to multi-tasking. A single monitor won’t be enough to display a lot of open documents that the user wants to be displayed at the same in the screen.
A way to address this problem is by connecting two monitors in your computer and extending the display to the second monitor. This would have different displays for the two monitors, one would be the main desktop, where the other is an extended display of your desktop. I usually do this when I watch a movie while doing something else. Media player would play full screen on one display, and I could still see the other documents I’m working at in the other display. Talk about multi-tasking.
3M Monitor Filters
When browsing for a monitor filter, I was able to drop by 3M Computer Filters and checked out its Benefits and Features. I tried checking out what monitor filters could do since I think too much time in front of the computer gives me some dizziness and mild headache. I don’t want to wear an eyeglass that is why I’m trying to look for a solution that could minimize the chance of me going four-eyed.
I thought filters would just help you protect your eyes, but I learned that it does so much more. 3M offers a comprehensive line of Computer filters designed to offer privacy protection, improve visual performance and help prevent damage to valuable computer screens.
Computer filters prevent others from viewing the monitor from side view giving you privacy. It also reduces the glare or reflection that would help you to look at your data clearly. And yes, it could also protect your LCD from scratches.
My Monitors History
Remember alley cat on CGA?
I consider myself to be relatively new to the computing world, having been introduced to my first ever personal computer in the late 1980’s. However, that being the 80’s I can still say that I’m probably in the golden age of computer literacy. I’m old enough to remember the rise in popularity of computers in our day-to-day living, and yet still young enough to have experienced technology grow along with me. And I’m likely to be at the stage when I’ll be among the movers and shakers of the technology world in the near future.
Quarter-life crisis, anyone? Nah. I’ll take a quarter-life opportunity to review what I’ve thought of technology these short years of my stay on this world so far, in terms of monitors.
My first computer was an IBM PC XT clone, with a monitor that displayed any color as long as it was green. I believe that time it was called the Hercules graphics adapter. One could display a cool 80 x 25 screen of text of about 720 x 350 resolution. Wow, wasn’t that advanced for its time, in terms of resolution? Sadly, though, the Hercules was only 1-bit, meaning each pixel is either on or off. Or you could only see green or black.
Then came the CGA monitors for me, or the Color Graphics Adapter. Games were now cool to play, with the CGA’s ability to render sixteen colors. The Hercules and CGA graphics cards actually came out at approximately the same time. The CGA was, well, colored. But the Hercules cards had higher resolution. Why did we have to have this tradeoff back then, huh?
History would say that the next logical steps in progression would be the EGA. But the next computer I got my hands on had already supported SVGA, and then a few years after, XGA-graphics, which has long been considered the standard (i.e., 1024×768 resolution). By then I was already playing games that were a bit more graphics-intensive than usual, like first-person shooters and some games intended for playing over the local area network.
These days, I still continue to use the XGA-resolution on my laptop, since most laptops only support LCD resolutions of up to 1024×768 (but graphics cards could support higher resolutions when external monitors are plugged in). On my desktop, however, I’ve pretty much gotten used to Super XGA, or 1280×1024–something you can only have comfortably with monitor sizes of 17″ or higher (otherwise, everything would be so darned small). I’m still using CRT, though, and I’m hopeful my next computer purchase would include a larger LCD screen, like David’s.
Here’s a bit of information on computer display standard nomenclature I found on answers.com.
Twin-tuner TV card from Nvidia
The Register previews the latest dual TV card from graphics chipmaker Nvidia. The new dual TV card shall allow for two simultaneous recording or TV viewing sessions at any given time. Nvidia claims that this latest offering bests all other dual TV cards in terms of quality. The card even features a compression system for use with a PVR (personal video recording) software.
The new card will feature S-video, composite video, coaxial and other methods of input and output. The package even contains an FM antenna, for picking up analogue FM broadcasts!
The DualTV card is pitched at Windows XP Media Center Edition systems and users who want to be able to watch one programme while recording another. The board incorporates Nvidia’s PureVideo technology the better, the company claimed, to separate out the colour and brightness information bonded in the broadcast signal and to remove noise from the picture. There’s also an integrated amplifier to boost weak input signals.
iTheater - wearable display
When the article said “Watch movies, play games in the privacy of your own head,” I was thinking they were crazy for wanting me to buy something that will help me imagine stuff. But I was wrong, since the iTheater was, after all, a wearable type of display. Yes, you wear it on your head, and you don’t have to imagine something in your head. Well, you won’t actually wear it while walking on the street, lest you bump into a signpost or get hit by a speeding bus.
It’s more of a personal entertainment center. It features an amazing 230,000 pixel resolution along with surround sound. Only weighing 3 ounces it fits very comfortably around the head.
The iTheater will work with any device that outputs analog video and audio via standard RCA jacks. It will work on portable DVD players, video iPods, game consoles and computers. the iTheater will give you a field of vision of 24 degress, which makes it equivalent to viewing a 50-inch display at about five to six feet distance. This is good enough for the regular gaming and on-the-go DVD. But the resolution seems too low, at 320×240, since the iTheater is touted to be equivalent to a 50-inch display, you’re likely to be missing on some details.
Here are the specs:
- Resolution: 320×240 (QVGA)
- 230,000 pixels each LCD
- Color configuration: vertical stripe
- Field of view: 24
- Eye relief: 20mm
- Exit pupil diameter: 10mm
- Audio: surround stereo
- NTSC/PAL compatible
- 10 foot A/V cable
- Completely portable
- Battery operated: requires 2 “AA” batteries (not included)
- Weight: 3 ounces
The iTheater retais for $499.00 online.
Zenview Command Center Elite
Like a few other monitor makers in the past, Zenview is looking to show off what it hopes is its claim to fame, a six LCD monitor setup, that will have most gamers drooling until sparks fly from their computers.
With six, twenty-four inch displays, you are looking at a total resolution of 5760 by 2400 pixels, and with each monitor having a 1000:1 contrast ratio, and a speedy 6ms response time, I have to wonder, is this thing going to cost an arm and a leg or is it vaporware?
After reading up on it, I found that the whole set-up will set buyers back only $11,999, which in my mind is pretty much what I figured for six 24″ LCD’s. You can order it today from Digital Tigers.
LCD panel specifications:
- Manufacturer: Samsung
- Viewable image: 24″ diagonal per panel
- Resolution: 1920×1200 pixels (WUXGA) per panel
- Display panel type: a-si TFT/PVA
- Viewing angle: 178º horizontal / 178º vertical
- Brightness: 500 cd/m²
- Contrast ratio: 1000:1
- Response: 6ms (G to G)
- Pixel pitch: 0.270mm
- Aspect ratio: 16:10
- Horizontal frequency (analog): 30-81 KHz
- Horizontal frequency (digital): 30-81 KHz
- Vertical rate: 56-75 Hz
- Bandwidth: 200 MHz
- Maximum colors: 16.7 million
- Plug & play: DDC 2B
- Color: black (silver optional)
- Mount: VESA 100mm
- Power consumption: 100W (max per panel)
- International integrated power supply
- Supplied with country-specific power cables
- Emission Standard: TCO ‘03
found via Engadget
AOC Displays Launches ‘Professional Series’
FREMONT, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 19, 2005–AOC Displays, maker of AOC and Envision Series monitors and Envision Series flat-screen televisions, today announced a new family of high-end LCD monitors distinguished by market-leading performance, ultra-sophisticated design and enhanced ergonomics. The new PC and Mac compatible Professional Series monitors are designed to put the ultimate in performance and style within reach of all discerning business professionals and computer enthusiasts.
Leading off the new Professional Series line are the new Envision Series 20-inch EN2028 and the 17-inch EN7750, both available immediately. The 20-inch EN2028 features a stunningly high picture resolution of 1600X1200 and a 700:1 contrast ratio.
The 20-inch unit’s sleek design and matte midnight black finish earn it a place in the most stylish environments and its added ergonomic features allow users to adjust the display to fit perfectly in any work - or play - space. The unit even folds to lay completely flat for discrete storage or for easy transport, allowing executives who travel with a laptop to take along an additional monitor. With a $549 retail price, the EN2028 offers exceptional value.
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