I have a 19” tube monitor now. I have vision problems and plan to buy a 22” wide screen. I make everything larger and I usually need to scroll left and right to see everything. Are there things I should avoid or look for when buying one?
Something with a low Refresh Rate. They are usually like 5ms or lower. Lower would be better. I doubt you could tell the difference but if anything to look for that would be it.
yes there are definitely things to look out for. refresh rate is how fast the screen refreshes so depends on what you're doing, if watch movies or game, then you want one with the lower rate. contrast ratio is how bright the colors can be. usually the higher contrast ratio the more vivid your colors cuz they can be brighter than the dark 700:1 means the brightest pixel is 700 times brighter than the darkest pixel. a higher contrast ratio could mean the dark is actually dark. there are some monitors that that black part of a screen/movie/background, looks gray because its so bright you will want a monitor with DVI(digital) if your video card/computer has a DVI output. VGA (analog) is lower quality on LCD screens, the items on your screen will appear more fuzzy. resolution is a big part of LCD's with the old type (CRT) you can have a lower resolution to make things on your screen look bigger, but things will not be fuzzy or smeared looking. with LCD, when you goto a lower resolution, things will look very fuzzy. but at the recommended resolution, everything on the screen will look tiny.
