OT: Hardware Trade

[Armin Hartinger]

Signals travelling through DSUB cables experience a higher signal deterioration. Now why exactly, due to worse shielding or whatever,
I'm not sure.
Moderns DSUB cables might work a little better. And not going through a switchbox helps also.
I'm running 1280x1024 at home through a switchbox and with the DSUB cable I get shading. With the BNC cable (still through switchbox) I
get almost none.
Btw... if you go BNC, get a screen where you can easily switch the input source (like through a menu select). BNC or DSUB. Very
convenient. On my Philips 201P I have to walk around my desk to do that.

-Armin

sinck@ugive.com wrote:

> \_ 19" screens have definitely the best price- performance
> \_ now. 1152x864 is the sweet spot resolution
> Is this the one that actually utilizes the most pixels without
> actually going over the real pixel/phosphor count?  Me, I could never
> be happy at < 1280 on 17+.
>
> \_ for that screen size. So
> \_ get one with at least 91KHz. A little more to ensure a little
> \_ reserve. Also a good thing to ensure good image quality is to get
> \_ one with BNC connectors.
>
> How is BNC better than the DSUB (standard VGA)?.  It would seem to me
> that the same basic signals have to travel on the same basic kind of
> wire in the same basic insulated cable, and only the tips matter to
> make sure they plug in?
>
> The iiyama previous referenced has both DSUB & BNC, for mix & match
> fun.  :-)
>
> David
>
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