scott wrote:
>> "Widescreen LCDs are easier to make."
>>
>> Um, WTF? Why would *that* be??
> 
> I can think of a few reasons, but none significant enough to actually 
> make a comment like that.  For the backlight it's better to have a 
> longer edge to inject the light, it's more efficient.  For the 
> electrical design having a longer edge to make connections is better, 
> plus having a shorter distance top to bottom makes the driver circuits 
> simpler (the left/right drivers just switch the pixel transistors 
> on/off, the top/bottom drivers actually send the data so are much more 
> sensitive to the capicitance and resistance in the lines).




WTF-O-Meter: 4.6

>> Also... I just touched my desk and got a static shock. (Like I always 
>> do, several times per day.) But this time, my LCD monitor went black 
>> for a second just as I got the shock. WTF?! o_O
> 
> Hehe, we have an ESD gun here for doing exactly that test, hold it on 
> the screen or on one of the connectors and fire!  Usually it does what 
> you say at the higher voltages, blanks out until it can reset (customers 
> don't like seeing garbled random data on the screen while the drivers 
> try to reset).

The part I can't figure out is... how is the monitor electrically 
connected to the metal beam on the underside of my desk? (The desk 
itself is wood. And the monitor housing is plastic.) So how the hell did 
the charge get into the LCD??

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