In , on 01/22/07 
   at 09:44 AM, mwizard99{at}comcast.net said:

>In , on 01/22/07 
>   at 09:32 AM, "Derek W. Keoughan"  said:

>>inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:
>>> I fed the second vid output from my T42 to my stand alone
17" LCD.  The
>>> T42 is a 15"  and had the most basic video card for that
year.  Both are
>>> always set at the default/native resolution of 1024 x 768.  Everything
>>> worked straight up.  No searching for bits and pieces or setting odd
>>> settings.
>>> 
>>> But the quality of the 17" display was pretty bad.  It had the
>>> appearance almost of printing done on poor or damp paper that let the
>>> ink bleed out from the edges of the characters a little.  Just fuzzy,
>>> diffused edges.  Very bad compared to what it does very crisply with my
>>> desktop - it's normal operation.
>>> 
>>> If the T42 had had the second or third step up in card quality would
>>> this diffused look have been eliminated, or is this a driver problem?

>>External VGA should match your laptop screen, with perhaps slight 
>>blurring if you're using extremely long VGA cables (as is often the case 
>>with KVM switches, especially ones with cheap cables).

>>Your external panel may also be a slower refresh design than the 
>>built-in laptop screen, which would cause ghosting and blurriness, 
>>especially on fast-moving images.

>>Can't speak for the T42, as I have no experience with it, but perhaps 
>>it's a full-digital display, while the external VGA port would be 
>>digital (video memory) to analog (the signal down the cable) to digital 
>>(within the external panel), so there's some loss of sharpness in the 
>>double conversion.

>>You're also comparing a 15" LCD and a 17" LCD at the same native 
>>resolution - the pixel size on the 17" would be bigger, which
would also 
>>introduce some graininess.

>>Hope this helps!

>>-Derek

>Perhaps you can recall that the LCD screens display less than stellar
>results when used at their non-native resolution?   I have not heard that
>this problem has been resolved yet.

As I said:

>>> Both are always set at the default/native resolution of 1024 x 768.

JimL

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