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Technology has come a long way, though - the VP2290b was a thick and heavy behemoth that was extremely difficult to drive using the signaling technology of the
by bri3d 13y ago
Technology has come a long way, though - the VP2290b was a thick and heavy behemoth that was extremely difficult to drive using the signaling technology of the time.
Plus, even the final revision of the T221 required being driven as either two monitors using one dual-link DVI and one single-link DVI or as four monitors by using four single DVI links. Even then, the internal refresh rate was a slightly annoying 48Hz.
The T220/T221 really were ahead of their time but convenience and standard size of the new generation of "retina" displays shows how far we've come.
- alberth 13y agoIMHO, the reason why the ViewSonic/T220 wasn't adopted in wider use isn't because of the reasons you listed above. It was because very few graphic cards could push that many pixels back in 2003.
- tjoff 13y agoIf you could afford the monitor the graphic card would hardly be an issue.
- ANTSANTS 13y agoThat, and lack of operating system support for high PPI displays. A friend of mine has his PC hooked up to a plasma TV, and it's absolutely astounding how poorly Windows 7's UI element scaling "feature" works, in 2013.
- Volpe 13y agoA plasma TV has really LOW PPI... Like it's 50+ inches with only 1080 pixels down the screen... That's like a factor of 10 worse than retina displays...
- ANTSANTS 13y agoNo kidding. The effective PPI (number of dots that make up the display / size of the image being projected onto your retinas) of a large TV viewed at a distance is pretty high, though, so both "retina displays" and large, low-resolution TVs viewed from a typical distance require large fonts etc. to be legible.