[rescue] Looking : Sgi/Sun stuff

[Aaron Finley]

Eric Webb wrote:
> On Sunday 26 June 2005 06:45 pm, Aaron Finley wrote:

> I don't have a lot of experience with non-laptop LCDs... but what is this 
> screen door effect everyone is talking about?

If you look closely at the screen, you can see the individual pixels, 
and the space between them. The space between them is not illuminated so 
there is a thin black border surrounding every pixel. Now that is 
extremely thin, but the effect is that of a "screen door".

In general, the lower the dot pitch, the less you are going to see the 
screen door effect. The Viewsonic I ditched after 4 days has a pitch of 
.264mm. The SGI I was trying to replace it with had a dot pitch of 
.230mm. The difference for a perfectionist like myself is HUGE. Greys 
and other shaded areas come up as "stippled" with the Viewsonic.

I am very disappointed with current LCD offerings. There is no 19" flat 
panel with 1600x1200. The only true high density flat panel on the 
market right now is the $6-$10k IBM T221, Viewsonic 2290B, and two 
others using the same internal LCD panel.

-- Aaron