[mythtv-users] resolution discussion

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Fri Sep 12 01:24:33 EDT 2003


On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 00:02 US/Pacific, John Morris wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>
>> While you're right on the Gateway set, I'm afraid you're wrong on 
>> this one. Apple's 23" Cinema HD display has a native resolution of 
>> 1920 x 1200. The 20" (non-HD) display is 1680 x 1050.
>
> My bad.  Guess they need 1200 instead of 1080 so the menu and dock stay
> visible.

Yeah, Apple uses 16:10 aspect ratios for their displays instead of 
16:9. Not sure if that's a/the reason why or not...

> But while on the Apple page again, I couldn't help but notice how 
> crappy their specs are.  The contrast ratio and brightness are so last 
> year's model!  :)

I still want one. :)

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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