Re: [MLUG] good mobo for simple system?

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 8/10/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Davis, Jared Scott wrote:
> Viewsonic with colors.  The Hanns tends to be too brightly colorful.  I
> can't seem to adjust that.  I don't know quite how to describe this issue
> in the images -- in some ways I like them better but I think the colors
> are brighter than they are supposed to be.

Gamma.  CRT monitors have a nonlinear response to the input voltage.
Computer graphics are encoded with this nonlinearity built-in.  So LCD
panels have to fake it.  This parameter is called 'gamma'.  Some LCDs
do better than others.  Macs have a carefully calibrated gamma, and
are more consistent in color reproduction (important to the graphic
design crowd).  You can probably adjust gamma in your display
preferences.  Just like TVs, the default tends to be eye-popping
color, not natural color.  This is to "stand out" in the store
display.  Naturally, everyone does this until new TVs default to
day-glo "vivid" colors.

> I will say that the Hanns
> beats the Viewsonic on whites and grays because the Viewsonic is a little
> yellow and not quite as fully white as the Hanns.  I don't see a single
> dead pixel nor a single always-on pixel on the Hanns.

Color temperature.  Color temperature is a shorthand way of
speicifying the white balance in a single number.  I'll bet your two
monitors are set to different color temperatures.

I'm glad you reported monitor prices coming down.  Maybe I'll try
dual-head again.

Regards,
Mark
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