thinking of getting
 

This:

[img]http://www.releasereview.com/data/newsitems/2005/10/images/gateway-FPD2185W.jpg[/img]

http://www.gateway.com/programs/lcd/

Saw in on the FS website for $600 CDN, which to me seems pretty good. $200 off for the next 2 days.

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/prodde ... atid=22335

Current monitor is a 19" CRT, so if I go with this i'll be upgrading to DVI. I think i've heard of probs with getting 1680 x 1050 resolution with AGP cards. I've got an x800 AGP, but hopefully i won't run into any probs. I'd probably want to use a DVI-D cable, right?

The idea is to then turn it into a HDTV as well. I would have to get either a cable box or TV tuner to do this, but I will look into that later.

sweet rock:

schweet. I love my new 19" inch widescreen LCD it pwns my crt

21 CRT here.

Get it dude, it's 21" here's mine:

[img]http://www.shadowness.com/users/46000/45932/mypc.jpg[/img]

i gotz teh media center p.c happy: and the mon rotates 90 degrees it's cool but useless oOo:

i got a 19 inch LCD

sweet, i have a 19" LCD, and would never ever go back to a CRT moniter!!!!

edit: dont get a LCD moniter if it has the glossy screen protection, way too much glare

i have a dvi input on my monitor, should i use it? is it really that much better than vga?

dvi is digital i think, but if remember correctly vga is better, not sure.

DVI is better than VGA

those monitors are

I have a 21" LCD. I hate it because it doesnt have a high resolution, and it doesnt display lines very well. I haven't mapped in so long because of this.

Thats why you cant cheap out on monitors. I always check the max rez when looking because its typically what i'll end up running windows at. Im fairly certain that next year i'll be getting a 21" widescreen. Right now my 19" crt is working fine and i have no real excuse to replace it.

I have a question:

I'm pretty sure I want to go with this monitor. I don't forsee a problem hooking it up to my computer. It will run at 1680X1050 or whatever.

What I want to do is also set it up for TV, infact HDTV.

Now I assume there are a few ways I can do this:

1) Internal tuner in the computer
2) External tuner
3) Cable box

I don't have a cable box and don't really want to go through that whole hassle. I'm content with the channels I get now. I did find this on the gateway website:

[url=http://accessories.gateway.com/AccessoryStore/Consumer+Electronics_381930/Digital+TV_381941/Digital+Television+Accessories_375698/12684996_ProdDetail?http://accessories.gateway.com/AccessoryStore/Consumer+Electronics_381930/Digital+TV_381941/Digital+Television+Accessories_375698/12684996_ProdDetail:acf3d]freraking long link[/url:acf3d]

So it says res up to 1280 x1024 resolution, which i don't think is a standard HDTV resolution, but that would be high res, wouldn't it?

What I'm asking I guess is with that box, can I set up HDTV with the HDTV LCD gateway monitor? looks like it only takes s video and composite, which means that it probably would be totally high def, right?

Anyone know of other high def tuners that I could use for this purpose?

My pc came with a tuner installed, the monitor can handle 1680x1050 even higher, and can have s-video, composite, vga, dvi (best to use for hdtv imo) and mostly everything else. I use media center to watch t.v on it, on the hdtv channels it looks pretty fucking amazing, dvds are awesome too. Oh and if you decide to get a tuner all you have to do is plug in the cable that's it also i suggest getting dscaler, it's a pretty good program to watch t.v on the p.c. and it's free, just google it. Hope that helps

i just remembered that i don't get any hd channels unless i order them, and to order them i have to have a digital cable box. so i guess my only option for watching actualy hd channels is to order a cable box through the cable company and hooking that up to the monitor.

also, i would hook up the computer to the monitor using the dvi cable. so with that used up, i wouldn't be able to use the dvi slot from the cable box to the monitor, whould I? i'd have to go with s video or composite. so i would probably have to use s video or something on the computer and dvi for tv, right?

connect your p.c to your monitor with vga and for tv i suggest connecting your cable box with the dvi, it's digital so you might need to have the digital set boxes.

why are these fuking things limiting resolution?

All In Wonder 4tw.

I'v still got my duel screen 17" CRT's the_finger:

Expensive to upgrade to 2 x 19" LCD's

[quote="Eight Ace":06499]those monitors are[/quote:06499]


calmdown:

now i'm thinking of just going a step up to the dell 2407

http://www.costco.ca/en-CA/Browse/Produ ... v=&Browse=

I mean, i'm spending $600 for gateway with shitty warranty, so i'd have to buy extended warranty from FS for $120, so $720 or spend $999 and get a 24".

Decisions decisions...

http://www.groundforce1.com/staffs/tony ... G_0738.JPG
http://www.groundforce1.com/staffs/tony ... G_0746.JPG
http://www.groundforce1.com/staffs/tony ... G_0748.JPG

went and picked up the gateway 21".

only prob i see so far is the right side of the screen is darker than the rest. not that big of a deal. i'm gonna go to costco and see what they have there too. i'm pretty happy with the monitor here, but if I find something better, i'll take this one back. It is beautiful though.

haven't tried it with any games yet though.