I've learned some things recently. First, I discovered why there are no monitors with height adjustments. I finally looked into "monitor stands" and discovered the world of articulated monitor mounts and the VESA mounting standard (which is confusing since it reminds me of the VESA bus..lol). So it's not...the monitor manufacturers have lost interest in designing mounts and this whole third party thing rules the market. So I can figure that part out, I think. Pretty cheap these days, too. I even thought something like this would be nice; I just never knew about it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N1ZSPKO/ref=twis … ding=UTF8&psc=1
I likely will get this.
SPBHM wrote:what kind of graphics card are you going to use? on my 19" 1440x900 LCD with DVI and a Radeon it's easy to set it to center the […]
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what kind of graphics card are you going to use? on my 19" 1440x900 LCD with DVI and a Radeon it's easy to set it to center the image, not scale, so 1152x864 works really well for 4:3 games, 1024x768 wastes a decent amount more of screen space, still, not a terrible solution for a perfect picture, also even the scaling, depending on the situation is not terrible, the monitor itself offers a button "4:3 to wide" which is nice when using a card with no scaling options, and tbh the quality of the scaling the monitor provides with that is extremely similar to the one the VGA offers with "keep aspect ration", actually I can't say for sure which one is better.
as for 1366x768, can't really say much, I think it's more common for laptops, really small screens (seen plenty of PC ones but it's just 15.6", so smaller than a proper 4:3 15" LCD) and some TVs, but they are normally the cheapest, would it even be better than some 15" LCD with 1204x768 native from around 2006?
but I think you will only find 1366x768 "monitors" with easy adjustments for aspect ration in form of a TV, they also normally had a VGA connector, but with TVs it's often bad as a monitor with input lag and to much "processing"
ideal solution would be a good 1920x1200 monitor, great for current use and also for 1600x1200 4:3
So, I discovered something tonight which I unbelievably didn't know (or was hidden/disabled/god knows what - I recently went to a DVI cable, maybe that changed it). I have an nVidia card, but there is in fact a scaling control. I was looking at monitors with scaling controls earlier tonight when I stumbled on this suggestion elsewhere. I can scale, I can scale with a fixed aspect ratio, I can leave it to the monitor, or disable scaling. So here's where the trouble starts.
With a CRT, resolution and screen area are two totally separate things. On an LCD, the screen area is fixed to the native resolution. For instance, all 1366x768 screens are 18.5". So I tried out a 1024x768 program on this screen, a 1280x1024. Not pretty! Oh sure, the image quality went up, but the screen area is equivalent to what you get on a 15" CRT. So I am second guessing the 1366x768 idea - I want the quality, but I don't want a tiny screen.
So I don't know...maybe just pick the screen with the best scaling? What is that? :S