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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> I think he means it was not really surprising, because LCDs are very
> inefficient so it's easy to make a nano-CRT more efficient? :-)
Oh, I misread what he wrote and understood it completely in reverse.
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- Warp
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John VanSickle wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>
>> Disadvantages of CRT:
>>
>> - Energy consumption and heat production.
>
> I work in a local store, and when walking past the large screen
> televisions, which are all LCD or plasma displays, I can feel the heat
> rolling off of these things. Even the smaller ones suck down a great
> deal of power.
With respect to heat, I think the difference is LCDs are thinner. If they
heat the same, it will be more concentrated on a few cms of depth. CRT
screens have a larger area to spread their heat on :)
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scott wrote:
>> Most *new* TVs are widescreen. (Indeed, it is apparently impossible to
>> buy one that isn't.) Which is most perplexing, because there are no TV
>> signals broadcast in widescreen,
>
> Huh? I went to radiotimes.co.uk and clicked on about 20 shows today on
> BBC1,2 and ITV, and *ALL* were widescreen. I couldn't be bothered to
> look longer for non-widescreen shows. What are you watching?
Films tend to be widescreen, but little else. (E.g., all the adverts
[not that we care], the news and weather, most of the game shows me mum
insists on watching.)
Personally, I just avoid watching TV at all. Watching the adverts is
like being on a bad acid trip (I'm not kidding!), and most of the
programs are rubbish these days anyway...
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scott wrote:
> Given that almost no new laptops seem to be coming with DVI sockets
> (compared to desktop PCs which have had them for ages), I don't see this
> matter changing in the near future.
Almost unbelievably, my laptop has a HDMI output. (!)
I'm not sure how you use it, mind you...
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Almost unbelievably, my laptop has a HDMI output. (!)
> I'm not sure how you use it, mind you...
You plug it into an HDMI input?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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On 28-4-2009 0:00, Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Almost unbelievably, my laptop has a HDMI output. (!)
>> I'm not sure how you use it, mind you...
>
> You plug it into an HDMI input?
>
I think you might want to use a cable to connect the two, but may be I
am old fashioned.
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On 4/27/2009 1:36 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Films tend to be widescreen, but little else. (E.g., all the adverts
> [not that we care], the news and weather, most of the game shows me mum
> insists on watching.)
I've seen many shows on TV lately in widescreen formats. Some of them,
though, seem to be some sort of compromise halfway between 4:3 and 16:9,
so I'm not sure what the real aspect ratio of those is.
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Almost unbelievably, my laptop has a HDMI output. (!)
>> I'm not sure how you use it, mind you...
>
> You plug it into an HDMI input?
I meant more that I'm not sure how to make it output a video signal on
that port.
...of course, maybe it's not really HDMI, just normal DVI. But the
product documentation claims it's HDMI.
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> Films tend to be widescreen, but little else. (E.g., all the adverts [not
> that we care], the news and weather, most of the game shows me mum insists
> on watching.)
Ermm, what TV signal do you receive? From radiotimes.co.uk for this
evening:
18:00 News, widescreen
18:30 Regional news, widescreen
19:00 The One Show, widescreen
19:30 EastEnders, widescreen
20:00 Holby City, widescreen
or perhaps some sport on BBC2?
19:00 Snooker, widescreen
20:00 Speaker, widescreen
21:00 Cruickshank on Kew, widescreen
or football on ITV?
19:30 CHampions League, widescreen
22:00 ITV News at Ten and WEATHER, widescreen
It seems to me like *every* program is widescreen.
> Personally, I just avoid watching TV at all. Watching the adverts is like
> being on a bad acid trip (I'm not kidding!), and most of the programs are
> rubbish these days anyway...
I tend to mostly watch sport and the news, not much else, luckily all of
that is widescreen so I never notice any problem :-)
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> I meant more that I'm not sure how to make it output a video signal on
> that port.
Usually something like Fn+F5 (there should be a little icon next to the
key). Or just go to display properties and tell it to output on both
monitors.
> ...of course, maybe it's not really HDMI, just normal DVI. But the product
> documentation claims it's HDMI.
The video signal is electrically the same, just different connectors on the
end. You can buy a cheap cable with an HDMI plug on one end and a DVI plug
on the other end if you want to connect between things (I have this to
connect my PC with DVI output to the TV with HDMI input).
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