17" DVI or 19" VGA

[NightshadowUK]

I'm after a TFT monitor and have narrowed it down to these two:

17" Hyundai Q70U and 19" Hyundai ImageQuest B91A.

I'm aware DVI is better but I was just wondering if it was better enough to warrant having a smaller screen?

[5lab]

imo no. if you've got a half-decent vga cable the difference is not instantly obvious - only by putting the 2 side by side will you realy notice anything - you'd probably be perfectly happy with vga

[DavidM]

Both monitors on TodayOnly at the moment

[NightshadowUK]

Aye that's why I asked tonight.

What do y'all class as a decent VGA cable?

[5lab]

well the one that comes with it should be pretty good

ive seen some that really degrade the signal though - if you see ghosting on still images, or colours running into one anohter i'd look at the cable - it normally only happens when they're damaged in some way

[NightshadowUK]

That I shall, nice one.

The 19" it is then!

[Enverex]

Sorry to dig up an old post, but I thought it was worth mentioning as no-one bought it up...

TFTs sizes are bigger than they are listed at. i.e. a 15" TFT is the same size visible screen as a 17" CRT, a 17" LCD is the same visible size as a 19" CRT, etc etc (approximately if you put them size by site). So you wouldn't actually be going down at all, they'd both be roughly the same size visible display.

[5lab]

Sorry to dig up an old post, but I thought it was worth mentioning as no-one bought it up...

TFTs sizes are bigger than they are listed at. i.e. a 15" TFT is the same size visible screen as a 17" CRT, a 17" LCD is the same visible size as a 19" CRT, etc etc (approximately if you put them size by site). So you wouldn't actually be going down at all, they'd both be roughly the same size visible display.

well.. sorta..

a crt is actually smaller than the measurements. ibm started it all - basically instead of measuring the visible screen, they measured the tube size. so a 15" tube gives a 14" screen.. this was continued on by pretty much everyone - however tfts are measuered in visible area, hence why a 19" tft has a bigger screen area than a 19" crt - however hte difference is not as big as you quote - a 19" crt typically has around 18" of visable area

besides, both these screens were tfts, so there is 2" difference in size

[Enverex]

Whoops

[oshta]

Also, my 19" CRT is 18" veiwable, so our Hyundai Q17 (17" TFT) is noticably smaller.
- Espcially now that im used to my 19" TFT i have at uni.


Daniel