RE: Plasma panels - what to choose?

["Paul" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>]

Are you sure the PC is actually detecting the plasma properly and not
just setting a standard VGA mode? i.e. does the monitor setting in XP (I
presume) show as whatever model of plasma you have?



My Nvidia based graphic card does not detect my plasma (which is quite
common), hence I had to use a bit of software to 'add' a new mode of
1366x768 to my graphic card settings.



Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Malcolm-Smith [mailto:rich@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 May 2003 12:03
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Plasma panels - what to choose?





Martin Greenwood wrote:

> At 21:55 06/05/2003 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>Playing with one (hitachi), the PC supports 1280x768, but the
analog
>>sampling of
>>the panel tries to lock on at 1024 pixels/line. This means that
some
>>pixels are
>>spread over 2 of them, the mouse shimmers when moved etc.
>>
>>Apparantly DVI solves this.
>
>
> Not sure about this, really you want to match the graphic card
resolution
> exactly with the panel resolution to avoid any resampling. Then even
with
> analog interface it should look good.

The panel is 1280x768, but when I have the PC set to that, it
autodetects it as
1024x768. Its passable since you dont really need the full resolution,
but the
shimmer when things move is annoying, as is ultra-fine text having L's
and I's
fade into the letters beside it.

TV on it looks vastly better via a tv tuner card and dscaler then the
built in
composite input too.

Got a cheap ati radeon on the way with DVI to use to see how it goes.


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