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New Monitor
Dec. 4th, 2006 10:08 amLast week, my fil retired from his job at HiWAAY. He came home with the flat 20" widescreen he had at his desk. Since he already had one at home, guess who has a new monitor!
It is taking me quite a bit to get used to the wider screen. I've always been a hardcore full-screen guy when it came to running programs on Windows. I never saw the point of not having things full screen and flipping between. The wide screen has completely changed that modus operandi. It is really nice to have two documents up side-by-side. The windows were so narrow before, that it was annoying when I had to do a lot of cutting and pasting between documents. That task is now blissfully done. Coordinating elements from my shot sheet to my production script for the video shoot we did last week was much so much easier.
Don't consider this a full-blown acceptance of widescreen TVs, though. I'm still anti-TV widescreen until I can afford the HD programming. The fil bought a HUGE TV a few months ago and I don't see the point of it unless it's only for DVD movies or you have HD cable programming. While he has tons of DVDs, most of JD's parents' viewing is TV...where they have to pick to zoom in to fill the screen or risk burning in black bars on the side so they can see the full screen of the non-HDTV image. Seems pointless/premature to have the screen when you don't have the proper content.
It is taking me quite a bit to get used to the wider screen. I've always been a hardcore full-screen guy when it came to running programs on Windows. I never saw the point of not having things full screen and flipping between. The wide screen has completely changed that modus operandi. It is really nice to have two documents up side-by-side. The windows were so narrow before, that it was annoying when I had to do a lot of cutting and pasting between documents. That task is now blissfully done. Coordinating elements from my shot sheet to my production script for the video shoot we did last week was much so much easier.
Don't consider this a full-blown acceptance of widescreen TVs, though. I'm still anti-TV widescreen until I can afford the HD programming. The fil bought a HUGE TV a few months ago and I don't see the point of it unless it's only for DVD movies or you have HD cable programming. While he has tons of DVDs, most of JD's parents' viewing is TV...where they have to pick to zoom in to fill the screen or risk burning in black bars on the side so they can see the full screen of the non-HDTV image. Seems pointless/premature to have the screen when you don't have the proper content.
