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24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:44 pm
by peter
I have been using three 19 inch monitor with tripple head to go. Most of the time i dont use the three screens for flying. I am considering a 24" or 26" inch for flying and then one 19 inch for moving map ect. Here are the questions:

- Is the wide screen view ok? I see some of you have them
- any reason not to get a 26" vs. 24"

Thanks for your info

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:54 pm
by Ken S
peter wrote:I have been using three 19 inch monitor with tripple head to go. Most of the time i dont use the three screens for flying. I am considering a 24" or 26" inch for flying and then one 19 inch for moving map ect. Here are the questions:

- Is the wide screen view ok? I see some of you have them
- any reason not to get a 26" vs. 24"

Thanks for your info
Peter you ever hear the saying - "go big or go home" :wink: It applies here :!: I have a Gateway 24" Widescreen and am currently dreaming of a 32" Sharp w/1080p.

I have no issues with the widescreen view.

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:51 pm
by Jay Eklund
24" here as well, it does skew panels not made with wide screens in mind but after a bit, you do not notice at all. Newer panels will of course support wide screens by default from here on out I would guess.

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:44 am
by esurfman
I have ana 24 LCD and I like it but find that the quality is a little bit less than the old big heavy ones that had crispier images.

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:13 pm
by John Khan
Peter

I have a 26" Samsung flat screen and it is brilliant. I still use the 19" monitor that I used before, and can thoroughly recommend using 2 monitors.

I think you would have to have a good video card to go with it, - (Mine is Nvidia GE Force 9600 GT and there are beter ones around).

With an AMD Athlon 64 X 2 dual core processor running at 3.25 GHz, with 4 Gigs of ram, - although it only seems to recognise about 3.25 gigs of the ram.

I run the desktops and the screens at 1920 by 1200 in FSX and everything runs great.

Regards
John

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:14 pm
by peter
Ok boys i ordered a 26 inch Samsung loooks to be the best you can get.

i should have it by mis week - will fire it up on the weekend

thanks for information

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:19 pm
by yoni63
Peter, a word on those. I have one and its nice, but for the longest time, I was seeing all my icons on the desktop looking like they were smearing or blurring to one direction. I am not sure, but I suspect it was due to using "approved" wipes to clean the screen... So just be cautious on how you clean your screen. I am basically not touching mine until it gets so dusty it HAS to be done.

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:53 am
by cyoo eddie
Bryan, here is a cool screen cleaner to help with those blurred images you may be getting...

http://appraisercentral.com/cleanscreen.swf

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:10 am
by Ken S
cyoo eddie wrote:Bryan, here is a cool screen cleaner to help with those blurred images you may be getting...

http://appraisercentral.com/cleanscreen.swf
Cute one Ed.

Re: 24" - 26" monitor

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:07 pm
by peter
all

have a Samsung T260 26inch up and running. I REALLY LIKE IT - thanks for all the information - it was very helpfull!!!

:D