From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Sun, 7 Dec 2025 01:27:46 -0500, Paul   
    wrote:   
      
   >> I'm not going that far.  I mean I moved my email and newsgroups to the   
   >> win11 computer, and I keep t he win10 laptop next to where I sleep, for   
   >> when I think of something I want to check before I sleep or when I wake   
   >> up.   The other win10 computer has 32gigs of RAM and runs well, but the   
   >> monitor, which I bought cheaply at a hamfest 10 years ago is not working   
      
   Cheap because it was second hand.  Even has a noticeable scratch on the   
   picture part, but luckily, can only see that when there is no image on   
   the screen.   
      
   >> well, sometimes, and I have to buy another one, but there are so many   
   >> choices I don't know what to buy.   
   >>   
   >> I've found if you watch youtube, especially police chase videos, etc.,   
   >> on the laptops, and they already have subtitles but then y ou add the   
   >> youtube real-time subtitles, they are often one on top of another. Yet   
   >> you need them both because often the ones proivided don't capture the   
   >> parts that are hardest to hear, that youtube subtitles do preey well on.   
   >> But when I watch those videos on the bigger monitor they are not on top   
   >> of each other, but one is below the other.  I have a 20" monitor now and   
   >> thinkI'll get 22".  Bigger than that and I think I'd have to sit farther   
   >> from the screen and the keyboard, and my arms won't grow anymore.   
   >   
   >The monitors I've seen at the store, trend towards the larger   
   >sizes. I wanted to replace my 1440x900 monitor with another, but   
   >there is nothing like that for sale. It is generally 1920x1080 minimum.   
   >The next size would be 2560x1600, and after that comes 3840x2160.   
   >And for that last 4K choice, you might want a 32" monitor to be using   
   >that many pixels.   
      
   They would happy to sell that to you. Higher price, more profit.   
      
   A friend has, since 2017, a large curved monitor, and I thought they   
   might become very popular, but I don't think I saw any for sale.   
      
   >17", 19" probably not (check around Jan10 for stock of those in Staples)   
   >22", 27", 32", bigger (1920x1080, 2560x1600, 3840x2160).   
   >   
   >I don't really consider this "choice" any more. There are fewer choices   
   >at least at retail stores. And online, a smaller monitor might be a   
   >"special order".   
   >   
   >Keep an eye out for the color. My new monitor, the color is off.   
   >My 20 year old monitor still has good color, and that's how I   
   >detected the new monitor was off. A gray might be rendered as a   
   >light shade of purple.   
      
   Years ago, when black clothes faded in the washing machine, I think they   
   came out purple. Dyes are better now, or maybe I have no new clothes.   
      
   >And as for whether they make really really bad panels, they   
   >save those for cheap laptops. 1366x768 panels, yes, they still   
   >make those. And, they make those with 40% of the normal color range.   
   >That would be a cheap twisted nematic (TN).   
   >   
   >The standalone monitors are IPS (edge lit) and VA. The VA might be a   
   >bit slower on GTG (gray to gray) time. The IPS has 178 degree viewing angle,   
   >which means the intensity variation is 10:1 at 178 degrees or so.   
   >Translated into English, that means you can move your head a little   
   >bit from side to side, without a lot of color or intensity shift.   
   >Whereas with a TN panel, the panel has to be tilted at just   
   >the right angle, your head can only be in one spot, and then...   
   >you can read it.   
      
   I'm probably okay with that.  I do rotate the laptop when I use it   
   during the midday hours** that the outdoor images reflect off the   
   screen. (Room is on the north side of the house, and I think this is   
   only bad on sunny days.)   The stand-alone monitor that needs replacing   
   is already at 90^ from the window, so it doesn't reflect images in my   
   direction anyhow, and I sit pretty much in only one place.   
      
   **It's almost 9AM now and there is a reflection, but it's not bright   
   enough to be a distraction. Even in midday it probably has to be a sunny   
   day for me to notice the reflection.   When I do I rotate the laptop   
   some so that angle of view changes.  But I'm not shopping for a new   
   laptop.   
      
   >   Paul   
      
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