Saturday, October 13th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
During day I was also at shop with television sets. One which take most of my attention was Samsung 52″ FullHD (1920×1080px) one — with very big contrast. It was connected to BlueRay disc player with some demos and trailers. I had to admit that some of them really show what high resolution means — sharp screen, all details on furry animals etc. But some of them used a bit bigger level of compression so it was visible on 52″ :(
Looks like companies which worked on HD-DVD and BlueRay did not get idea that LCD technologies will go into such big screens…
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Friday, January 19th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today there was a sale in local MediaMarkt. I decided to go there to look how much it was destroyed by wild crowd.
When I was at the shop there were only a bit more people then usual — no signs of wild crowd, no destroyed stuff.. But they had one nice thing (which was also one of reasons why I was there): Samsung 205B Wide LCD monitor for 999 PLN (about 260 EUR) and I bought one.
At home I replaced my Samsung 17″ CRT with this new 20″ widescreen LCD and booted. 1280×1024 (my usual resolution) was not so good and after edition of xorg.conf I got 1680×1050 resolution and this is it. More space for windows, more space during reading of documents etc.
And all of that without any problems with gfx card — I use ATI x200 integrated into mainboard chipset and closed fglrx driver (did not checked does opensource driver support this resolution but I think that it should).
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