Vizio 42" display as my2004 G5 desktop monitor...
I'm only getting 1260 x 720 or something resolution on the Vizio, even though the TV specs say it can take up to that 1366 res.
I didn't realize that Apple displays are like 1900 resolution.
Anyway, it does fine for the price off my aluminum macbook via DVI to HDMI.
When I try for a higher resolution, the Vizio tv screen cuts off the edges.
I think in order to get higher resolution we need to use a HDTV that's able to go HIGHER rez than what we want to use.
as the below case seems to show: vizio 42" HDTV is capable of 1920 x 1080, but seems to work best at 1600 x 900:
First:
I'm running a old G5, but I'm using the GeForce 6800 GT AGP 256mb video card on this G5. max DVI Resolution : 2560 x 1600 @ 60hz.
for a while I was using a
25.5" veiwsonic VX2640W monitor, or a
samsung 2443BWX 24" Monitor at the same time running the Vizio 42" HD TV as my monitor. (Resolution on all were the same: excellent.)
Now I'm just using the Vizio 42" HDTV for monitor and TV, and I was getting 1920 x 1080 rez,
but I had an odd problem, minor really. Mainly noticeable when viewing text.
and this was that when I moved the mouse up or down to the bottom or to the top half of the screen, the other half would get slightly blurry.
I checked settings, and 1920 x 1080 INTERLACED was the top setting, and was where it was set.
So, to try which other or if any other settings also did this same 'blurring' I tried them all, and found that some of them didn't do that blurring.
However, when I tried to go back to the 1920 x 1080 setting, the
screen when black. CRASHED.
Failed to respond to keyboard and mouse.
Had to press start/Shutdown button on mac desktop to reboot.
I now have it set at 1600 x 900, where it does not do the blurry thing anymore, and am afraid to try 1920 x 1080 (interleaved) again.
One other issue with using the Vizio as a monitor. minor but repeatedly annoying:
when switching between TV and HDMI it takes the PC 3 to 4 seconds to come up on screen; but it takes the Mac 15 seconds to appear. it flashes a split second picture of the desktop after 5 seconds, then blank, then finally comes up in another 10 seconds.
SO, any feedback?
I am needing to decide whether to upgrade mac OS from 10.4.11 to Leopard, 10.5, to see if it fixes my 1920 x 1080 blurring/crashing problem;
or, to buy a new Mac, possibly to be able to use XP Pro and run PC games on it (AND to see if it fixes my 1920 x 1080 blurring/crashing problem;
). or
to buy a PC and forget the Macs (hard to do.)
but considering it, since:
I spent a frustrating hour searching @ apple.com for a way to POST A QUESTION in discussion forums! no way to do so even tho in HELP screen they say: Click on "Post New Topic" link at the top of a relevant forum page. but, "Post New Topic" doesn't exist! NO where. even on site maps, or on A RELEVANT FORUM PAGE.
Well, I do say:
I much prefer Macs over PC's, been using apples since the Apple II. got one of the first Macs in 1984, have been spending huge amounts of money on all these computers since they came out.
But, with the policies and arrogance that Apple, and any Corporation for that matter, displays, and PRACTICES. I'm disgusted.
JUST A FEW EXAMPLES:
1. iphone doesn't even have cut and paste!!!!!!!!!!
2. iphone doesn't have a practical usable SEARCH feature. (if you count that TINY search feature in contacts, as a usable search feature, then you have MUCH smaller fingers than I do. AND IT ONLY WORKS ON TITLES AND ONLY WORKS IN CONTACTS.)
3. iphone is a toy for kids. not much use for any real work.
4. Why Apple fails to produce the NEXT generation of computers: a UMPC, Ultra Mobil Personal Computer, palm top computer that is linked to the internet like the iphone, that has a 5" to perhaps as large as 8" screen. and is FAST. FAST. FAST. not SLOW. SLOW. SLOW like the iphone.
Others ARE making the UMPC; like this very SWEET 5" OQO model 02
http://i.gizmodo.com/5124185/oqo-model-2%2B-is-%2B10-awesome-oled-touchscreen-global-3g-and-speed-up
or this 8" vaio
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/notebooks/0,39050490,44440728p,00.htm
OR this very expensive tough book, 5.6"
http://www.groupmobile.com/specs.as...cs+Itronix+GoBook+MR-1+Fully+Rugged+UMPC.html
In fact I think the next Generation of computer evolution is the UMPC.
Am I wrong?
Here's why:
1. After iphone introduced the concept of "internet anywhere". but has too many limitations to fulfill that role properly, quickly and elegantly.
2. Laptops are just to cumbersome for most people to take everywhere (as in "internet anywhere".)
3. and the iphone and all it's wanabees are way to SMALL, to work well.
Then the UMPC does and will fulfill those rolls magnificently.
THEY ARE:
1. small enough for a pocket, so WE CAN take it anywhere.
2. with a keyboard large enough to type fast without straining our eyes or our patience.
3. Powerful enough to make them FAST.
4. large enough hard drive for any and ALL the programs we usually use and NEED.
SO, we can now, with a UMPC: check our calendar. our grocery list. compare prices on the internet while at any big box stores, right there on the spot, fast enough to matter.
check your amortization spread sheet on financing they are claiming to be so great. hehe. ON the spot, fast enough to matter.
The only question is: WHY didn't Apple think of this? follow through on it?
well, they did, and failed. Too early, too little.
So, Apple, quit your pouting and get to work!
just kidding, we know you aren't pouting.
and, are you working on this??
