2405FPW Pictures (Image Intensive)

[Winnow]

The one thing you'll learn for sure from this thread is that I suck at taking pictures.

I tried to take pictures in the dark to get a non glare picture of the display screen.
I also tried to take the pictures with an my projector screen in the background to give some size perspective as this 24" LCD is huge.
The light from the LCD basically washed out the projector image so it didn't work very well.
Deadwood fans will appreciate it though!

Anyways, here's the pics.

Landscape view with browser window open.



Tried to show how much information you can fit on a 1200X1920 screen in portrait mode.

BTW, The screen is crystal clear. It's my photography and camera that suck.



The reason I bought this display in the first place...so I can read full page comics!



Mostly my projector image in this shot. It's 120"/10ft diagonal for perspective.
I've got DirecTivo-HD, X-Box, PS2 and PC hooked up to it. 100 VVs for whoever figures out what movie is on the screen!



Super blurry pic but shows you can fit two full size web pages side by side
in landscape mode.



Bullock's seen better days!



Another attempt to show screen size.



Advertising VeeshanVault!



What happens when you use a flash on a reflective screen:



These pictures don't come anywhere close to doing
justice to the great picture the 2405 produces.



Last one is NWS (hooters) Might have the clearest picture of the screen though. I tried to play with brightness/contrast in image studio so you'll see my hack attempts to brighten things.

http://winnow.veeshanvault.org/files/no ... 05/299.JPG

this display. It retails for 1199.00 but can be had for around 900.00 if you find the right Dell Reps.
That's half of what the Samsung 24 inch monitors were going for only 2 months ago.
This panel has improved upon Samsung's 243T panel in every way.
Brighter, better viewing angles, component rgb inputs so you can use it as a HDTV display,
PiP so you can play a movie or watch TV in a corner of the screen.
No ghosting which is amazing on LCD this size. (8ms)

Have played HL2 engine game, Vampire: Bloodlines and it looks outstanding and smooth on a GT6800 OC. People have been playing 1920X1200 res games without lag.

If you've been waiting around for the right LCD monitor, this one is worth a hard look!

[Sumdaor]

Very impressive winnow, I am going to get a 24 inch in about a month, going dell just because of the corporate rebate I get. What is your wallpaper btw?

[Winnow]

Very impressive winnow, I am going to get a 24 inch in about a month, going dell just because of the corporate rebate I get. What is your wallpaper btw?

The non NWS wallpaper is from Guild Wars. I don't play it but it came up in a search for 1920X1200:

http://www.guildwars.com/gallery/wallpaper/

Here's the NWS Wallpaper:

http://winnow.veeshanvault.org/files/no ... splash.jpg

Someone else posted it on a 2405 discussion thread but if you go to the link that's on the image you'll find 20 or so pages of high res nudy pics.

Seems spyware free if you want to have a look: ***NWS***

http://www.hegre-archives.com/hegrearch ... reemovies/

the XL version of the pictures are huge. L is big enough to fill up 1920X1200.

Edit: This should have been the VeeshanVault Survivor Graphic!

**NWS**

http://www.hegre-archives.com/hegrearch ... ge16_3.jpg

[Fairweather Pure]

Fuck that 24" bullshit. I perfer a monitor that can be measured in feet and costs 300$!

http://www20.tomshardware.com/howto/20041113/index.html

[Aslanna]

Fuck that 24" bullshit. I perfer a monitor that can be measured in feet and costs 300$!

http://www20.tomshardware.com/howto/20041113/index.html

I'm sure that's fine for movies and stuff.. But I don't want to do my web browsing staring at the wall. I actually prefer nice crisp text.

[Winnow]

Fuck that 24" bullshit. I perfer a monitor that can be measured in feet and costs 300$!

http://www20.tomshardware.com/howto/20041113/index.html

Good luck with that project! : )

XGA doesn't cut it. Need 1280X720 for 1:1 HD pixel mapping. You can get a cheap store bought projector for under 1000.00 now although you'd have to pay around 1700.00 or higher for 1280X720. The same quality of projectors were 5K+ the year befor so I'd say with the next generation of projectors, you'll be able to get a full featured, HD projector for under 1000.00....ok maybe 1200.00!

If you want that lower res projector, I'd just buy an X1 on eBay or something and save yourself a lot of trouble and ugliness and most likely get a lot more functionality out of it : )

Surfing on a high resolution projector it nice. Lots of info on the screen and no squinting. It also doesn't hurt to be able to do it from an easychair with remote keyboard and mouse. The image is pixel for pixel so it's extremely clear.

[pyrella]

Need pictures here fixed!

Just ordered one of these from Dell, they were matching the price shown on dealsofamerica.com, and lopped off tax/shipping.

899.00 even

Now for the 12 day leadout time

[Aslanna]

Grats! That's not a bad price. I got it cheaper but had to pay tax.

I love mine. Hate working on the 21" at work. Too small! And the portrait mode is quite lovely for scanned magazines and such.

[Winnow]

Grats Py!

You'll love it. Make sure you get a perfect one. Most people get perfect ones right off the bat but I had two stuck red pixels. Dell shipped a replacement to me and gave me a week to compare the two monitors before needing to send one back at no charge with shipping paid both ways.

It's the best monitor evah!

[Aslanna]

After 15 years (!) I finally replaced my 2405FPW. Or will once the new monitor arrives (supposedly) next week. I wanted something for a permanent portrait mode monitor so I got a 27" 2k display. I found that a 1080p 24" monitor was a bit on the small side for that when it came to things like web browsing. Perhaps a 4k monitor would have been better but this should be a decent stopgap for the price.

I will say the 2405 lasted much longer than I thought it would have so I don't regret the purchase in the slightest even though it was like ~$800 at the time. Easily one of the better PC peripheral items I have purchased.

Now the USR Robotics Dual Standard modem I purchased back in 1992 for ~$920 we won't talk about.

(There was no need for v.32bis.. HST 14.4 was better all around and what most BBS's went to and was much cheaper!)

[Winnow]

Now the USR Robotics Dual Standard modem I purchased back in 1992 for ~$920 we won't talk about.

(There was no need for v.32bis.. HST 14.4 was better all around and what most BBS's went to and was much cheaper!)

nostalgia! I going slightly off topic!

That's speedy! My first modem was a Commodore v.21 300 bit/sec modem 1983-84 ish. You just sort of watched text scroll across the screen as it downloaded. It was cheaper than yours though. I think it cost $250

The Commodore 1541 Hard Drive used 5.25 inch double sided floppys that could hold a whopping 664 "blocks" which was ....165kb of data. It took about 30 minutes to fill up that 165kb using my modem. It was a step up from the original cassette tape drive I had been using!

That's back in the days when I used to hex edit games and enter my pirate BBS phone number CPU Headquarters (Central Pirating Unit) into the opening game credits. around 1985 and 1986, I had four 1541 Hard Drives. I'd load 3 hard drives full of games and leave one hard drive with a blank disk. Other pirates would call my phone/bbs at night and download games and leave new games for me on the empty disk. Those were the fun days of pirating.

Pre-Internet, I met my first girlfriend by way of a bulletin board in 1983. A guy wanted to trade games in person (faster than downloading). He brought his girlfriend with him from across town to my house and invited me to his place the next weekend where I met her at a party. I may have stayed with her forever but ended up moving to Switzerland a few months later so that ended that. People said computers were anti social back then but it never seemed that way to me. I made an entire new set of friends resulting from the BBS.

I met the guy above on a bulletin board (Art's BBS...it had maybe 20 users total) He made a post asking if anyone wanted to play D&D using the BBS. Back then you could leave 3 messages max to one person as anything more would fill up the 5.25 inch floppy which was running the entire bulletin board on 165K. Each day he'd post a message describing a scenario and then we'd (maybe 2 or 3 of us) reply with our moves. Progress was slow as hell! Side note, that guy went on to attend Stanford University and then programmed missile guidance systems for the military. I ran into him by chance later when I was working at Motorola Government Electronics Division, Space and Technology Systems in Scottsdale AZ. Small world.

When I got to college, times had changed. I bought a hard drive for my Mac Plus that stored 40mb for $500. That's just crazy talk big!

I had a job selling PC hardware probably around 1992. One thing we sold were 9GB barracuda hard drives to movie studios and other companies that needed that "massive" amount of storage. They cost $4,000 each.

Back on topic. The 2405FPW was a great game changing monitor! I use multiple 55" monitors now because it's the only way I can use PC monitors without having to wear glasses I have 20/20 distance but due to old age can't see shit up close so those big monitors are far enough away for my distance vision to kick in.

Super off topic: I still remember the very first porn image I downloaded off off the usenet using a Netcom account. (fuck AOL, I never used their service!) guessing maybe I was using a 28K modem by that time but could have been a 14.4 as it was 1990 or 1991 I think. It still was a slow download but it was a glorious close up picture of a blowjob at whatever passed as high res back then, probably 600pixels or something : ) I wish I still had it for nostalgia sake.

Got Cable internet in 1998 which I think started out at 15Mbps. If that old internet speed thread is still around it probably mentions it), The EverQuest beta started in 1999 and the rest is known history!