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There's rumors about a new iMac that will have a 5120x2880 display. At 14.7 megapixels this would dwarf everything else, including some medical imaging monitors that start at 10-15 grand. As much as I would LOVE this rumor to be true, I have a somewhat hard time believing that these panels...

This is a video from my Canon camera. It's encoded a 24Mbps, so maybe the bit rate is too high? The CPU is running fine (well, after I fixed it from underclocking itself because the thermal paste had melted), and with CoreAVC both cores reach about 90% decoding the video. However, even though...

Okay, so I have a bit of a weird situation. I have a Latitude D630 I got in 2007, and it came with an integrated Nvidia Quadro NVS 135m, which unless I am not utilizing it properly, is very crappy at simply playing back 1080p HD. The only way that I have been able to play 1080p smoothly so far...

I have a 2209WA. Black levels looking straight on are pretty good, however, as soon as you view the monitor at an angle, the black turns to a gray/white color. So, meh.. Unless you order one of the few monitors with a polarizer, I don't think you can really avoid this (unless you go PVA)

Hmm.. I've had my monitor a few months now.. and it works great.. on DVI. On a whim, I hooked it up through the analog connection and for some reason everything that's gray is tinted (rather noticeably) pink. Is this just a matter of adjusting the RGB settings in the monitor or is it something...

Yeah, I've seen that one and it seems pretty good. How does it compare to the new Hitachi 7k500? They're about the same price.

So I'm a college student with a D630 laptop, and do a lot of video editing. Unfortunately, my laptop's 160GB ran out pretty quickly. So I'm looking for an upgrade, and with video editing, I would like the fastest possible hard drive I can get to work with this thing (that has a decent amount...

Never heard of a monitor (or anything) with 1900 pixel's width. What a strange number.

Pixel doubling will make it look good, with no quality loss; however to really utilize those extra pixels, Lanczos resampling would produce the best looking image. Imagine if you had a square display with four giant pixels. There will obviously be huge aliasing. Now say you want to show the...

You're a long thread.

It may be weird, but I like my LCD at at least 50 for the brightness.. it seems too dim otherwise

What I like to do is use Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, and set it to touching window from outside. This fills up your whole screen (you only lose a very small amount of footage on the left and right) and the resampling algorithm is superb. I think this beats black bars on the top and...

Yes, it's safe to say that. They have IPS listed on their website and I don't think anyone's received one that didn't seem to be IPS.

While we're on a roll... virtual reality > oled > crt > lcd I think CRTs are pretty good, but sort of large. I wish they would have kept working toward those thin CRTs. Whatever happened to them?

I ordered Friday and got it Monday.