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What are WXGA,WSXGA, AND WUXGA benefits and problem solving?
One of the things that I am considering is a higher resolution screen. Basically, what I am trying to find out is some benefits to having a higher resolution screen from WXGA,WSXGA, AND WUXGA. This is what I think that I understand. By going to a higher resolution the text becomes smaller so it maybe harder to read but you can fit more on a screen and it is with better quality. I would appreciate any help and education on what I have written and the questions that I have.
1. The first question is in reference to games, movies and pictures. By going to a higher resolution does it create a smoother better picture which is not as grainy as a lower resolution or is it just the same. I am not sure what the resolution is on movies but let me try and give an example. If you are playing a game at 800X600 and your display is 1440X900 or 1920X1200 would it look the same because both resolutions are higher then the games resolution. Or because there are more pixels on the latter it would look better. The same question for movies and pictures, I am not sure what the resolution is for a movie.
2. The second question given what I had said above is there any other benefits and also problem solving issues of having a higher resolution. Are there a lot of games and digital things that would require or be preferable to have a higher resolution. And with having a higher resolution and the text being smaller and maybe harder to read. Can this be fixed by lowering your resolution on the screen or making the fonts larger?
Krusty46
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December 17th, 2004 20:00
If you have a game set to run at 800x600, that what it will run at. Should look no different.
Most movies should look no better as they are not that hi-res to begin with-although Hi-Def DVD's are starting to pop up and you'd want the 1900x1200 to take full advantage of them. But that's really more if you into watching hi-def DVD's.
Lots of new games will run at insanely high resolutions nowadays. Will the graphics card on your laptop be able to keep up though. They have come a long way.
Big problem is this, LCD's have a native resolution, which as an example on a 9200 with a UXGA screen is 1900x1200. If you try to deviate from that it will never look quite as good, no matter what tricks that you may try (a lot will say the 9200 doesn't look that good to begin with). So its not really something that you can put it up to 1900x1200 for gaming or to watch a movie and then down to 1024x768 for using Word or the web.
You can make the fonts larger, but anything over the normal setting will look distorted on XP. This is something that Microsoft plans to fix in its next OS as hi-res screen are becoming the norm.
Anything I wasn't completely clear on or just wrong about, hopefully others can set the record straight.
Bay Wolf
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Keleios
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December 18th, 2004 23:00
anettis
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December 20th, 2004 11:00
When shopping for a new laptop I think it is best to concentrate on LCD's that you most comfortable with at their native resolution. Using any other resolution will result in either a drop in quaility (due to pixel interpolation) or wasted screen real estate (due to pixels being deactivated causing a black boarder around the viewable area). It depends how you have your graphics options set as to which situation you will encounter.
I also think it makes sense to try to stick to 96 DPI. Unfortunately Windows XP does not fully support any other DPI setting. Going beyond this is allowed but you will notice some web pages and applications that do not scale properly - and thus the screens look corrupted. I believe the WUXGA and WSXGA screens come set to 120 DPI which certainly makes the screens more readable (fonts larger) but at the cost of some web pages and applications formatting screens incorrectly.
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;Q820286
Most of the time the inproper scaling is not too distracting, but it can be annyoing. I seem to notice it more and more now that I have researched the issue.