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Really, Really, BIG Monitor.
19 years ago
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My consort and I were in a store we have in town named 'Bookman's'; now I'm not sure if similar things exsit in other areas, but Bookman's is a place where you can exchange electronics, games and of course, books, for store credit or cash.
It's an awesome place to hang out or go looking for that obscure record/book/game.
Well, we visited this little haven of literacy and...I bought a monitor.
A BIG monitor...
We found it for $60 on a shelf.
We thought it was a TV at first, but it had a sign on it saying: "This is not a TV. But a really big monitor for a computer"
It was...uh...BIG...
Like...we didn't have a table strong enough to hold it BIG...
I'm talking, this thing could swallow a person whole...
"I" could crawl inside this damn thing....
IT'S MORE THAN THREE FEET WIDE!!
It's.
So.
Nice.
However...
It doesn't show the whole screen at once.
It does when I play a game (havn't tried a dvd yet) but if I'm online, or on the desktop, it only shows about a quarter of the screen at a time (if I'm at my usual 1200 reso).
At 800 by 600 it shows 'almost' all the screen.
Still, it's a bit akward trying to surf or look at pics/IMs and not be able to see the whole screen. I'm constantly scrolling hither and thither.
Yet, this thing is a blast to play UT2k4 on.
Still, if anyone knows a way to 'fix' this little view issue, I would be very greatful.
D.O.P.R
It's an awesome place to hang out or go looking for that obscure record/book/game.
Well, we visited this little haven of literacy and...I bought a monitor.
A BIG monitor...
We found it for $60 on a shelf.
We thought it was a TV at first, but it had a sign on it saying: "This is not a TV. But a really big monitor for a computer"
It was...uh...BIG...
Like...we didn't have a table strong enough to hold it BIG...
I'm talking, this thing could swallow a person whole...
"I" could crawl inside this damn thing....
IT'S MORE THAN THREE FEET WIDE!!
It's.
So.
Nice.
However...
It doesn't show the whole screen at once.
It does when I play a game (havn't tried a dvd yet) but if I'm online, or on the desktop, it only shows about a quarter of the screen at a time (if I'm at my usual 1200 reso).
At 800 by 600 it shows 'almost' all the screen.
Still, it's a bit akward trying to surf or look at pics/IMs and not be able to see the whole screen. I'm constantly scrolling hither and thither.
Yet, this thing is a blast to play UT2k4 on.
Still, if anyone knows a way to 'fix' this little view issue, I would be very greatful.
D.O.P.R
All I can think of
It's also possible it's made for gaming alone and thus why it dose web surfing poorly.
I would suggest setting up dual monitor support if you can.
There could be an option in the display drivers to disable that, or set your desktop to a smaller resolution.
After doing some research, I found that this monitor was made as part of a PC/TV Tuner set in the late '90s.
I'm not sure how to get into the drivers (WinXP recoknized it as plug-n-play) but I could give that a try.
D.O.P.R
good luck :)
-Z
Right now I have it set at 1280 X 768 and have to do a lot of scrolling around to see eveything.
From what I've been able to see, I think 640x480 is the only reso this monitor is capable of and that if I want to browse more comfortably, I would need to either ditch this monitor, or set up a second one.
I'll go with the latter choice. 'Call of Duty 2' is just too much fun on this huge screen to give it up.
D.O.P.R