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Hardware / Re: Highest display resolution supported on ATI X850 PE card & SNAP drivers?
« on: January 02, 2016, 10:13:28 pm »QuoteThis 21" CRT was fully capable of displaying 1800 x 1440/76 Hz NI resolution providing a pretty decent 0.26 mm aperture grille pitch....1800x1440 was way to much for this tube and you never could see that much pixels. Simply cause there were not that much stripes in the grill. You can't cheat physics...
Completely agree with all you stated...however, you are leaving out the intended use of the hardware. So while I may have been focused on text quality, the person doing CAD work on this display would certainly be able to take advantage of the higher addressable resolution. In other words, the monitor electornics had the ability to physically address (turn on/off) some 1800 locations on the X-axis...this very much translates to having a functionality where the display can choose from 1800 different points, even though not each of these 1800 points was a unique physical screen location, sort of an interpolation solution I suppose.
For me anyways it all boils down to the functionality one indends to utilize. Image/graphics work on displays is very different then text work. Today's hardware, where the RGB gamut is wholly covered (near 100%) will still fetch a good price at the cash register...and if one is willing to spend that money I can only assume it's because he/she is not focused on text only.
If anyone reading the post is looking at a pretty good review of panel capabilities head on over to http://www.tftcentral.co.uk, these guys do a great mix of usability and tech analysis.