[mythtv-users] 21" monitor in place of TV?

[nate s]

One thing I have noticed with two tvs I have is that you can get much
less glare with a flat screen than with a regular (not an lcd type,
but rather a crt with flat glass)  I'm not sure why this is, but it's
definitly noticible, at least for me, and I assume the same holds true
for moniters.  YMMV, of course.  (as a side note, flat glass makes it
"seem" slightly smaller; when I first got that tv, I had to use a
measuring tape to make sure it really was the same size as the old
one.)

-Nate

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:50:29 -0400, Josiah Royse <jroyse at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:15:09 +0200, Milos Prudek <prudek at bvx.cz> wrote:
> > So I did a little test. I placed my 17" inch, 4 year old monitor side by
> > side with a small, 15-year old (!!) TV, and it was a shock! While my 17"
> > monitor has a way sharper, crisper image than my TV, it was no use.
> > Horrible glare and reflections destroyed the whole image.
> 
> I wonder if desktop monitors are sheilded better than TVs in general-
> to protect from intense electromagnetic waves at close range.  Or is
> it that a desktop monitor has a higher DPI than a TV (basically color
> dots) and limits the light output from having many, smaller holes for
> light versus a TV having fewer, larger holes in the mask/screen for
> pixels.
> 
> --Josiah
> 
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