Msg: Re: Older software on LCDs

If you are actually going to buy one of these things then take a floppy with XY3 along to a showroom and look at the program on screen. Most of the LCD panels come with a feature which lets you fill the screen with 640x480 or 800x600 screens, even though the monitor has a resolution of - say - 1024x768. However some of these produce ghastly type, others are perfectly useable. I have been using a 15 inch NEC monitor for about three years now and have been satisfied with the appearance of XY3 and XY4.

On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:35:50 -0500, Norman Bauman wrote:
>>From today's Wall Street Journal:
>
>March 5, 2002
>SPECIAL REPORT TECHNOLOGY
>The Flat Look: You've decided to buy an LCD screen. Now comes the
>hard
>part: How do you choose?
>
>By GARY MCWILLIAMS
>
>
>
>A word of caution: LCDs differ from traditional CRT displays in that
>they
>don't handle lower resolutions well. Most CRTs can easily adapt to
>show at
>full-screen size everything from older software with 640-by-480
>resolution,
>all the way up to 1,600 by 1,200. But a flat panel won't
>automatically
>resize when confronted with older programs. Run an application using
>640-by-480 resolution on a 15-inch LCD, and you'll wind up with a
>shrunken
>image surrounded by a black border, leaving the bulk of that big
>screen you
>bought dark and unused.
>
>You can manually alter the resolution settings on the display, but
>you'll
>have to go in and change it back again to view higher-quality images.
>
>One way around this problem: Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows XP has a
>feature
>called Liquid View that inflates the size of icons and text when
>running
>older software on 15-inch and larger screens. It's a particularly
>useful
>feature for running older computer programs, says Chris Connery, a
>marketing manager at NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America
>Inc.,
>Itasca, Ill.
>
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