[clug] Monitors that swivel

[Jim Croft]

I had no idea - just tried it with a Sony laptop and indeed, the
horizontal viewing tolerance is significantly wider than the vertical.
 What a cool party trick... (note to self: probably need to reassess
party repertoire)

jim

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Lana Brindley <lanabrindley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/5 Alex Satrapa <alexsatrapa at mac.com>
>
>> On 04/06/2009, at 22:22 , David Tulloh wrote:
>>
>>  LCD monitors (mine at least) have different viewing angles in different
>>> directions.  One of the compromises they make is the bottom viewing angle is
>>> fairly bad.  This only really becomes an issue if you rotate it so it's now
>>> your side viewing angle.
>>>
>>
>> Just seconding this: I have a HP w2448c - decent 24" monitor that boasts a
>> stand which lets you rotate to portrait mode.
>>
>> The vertical viewing angle on this monitor is about 40°, which doesn't work
>> so well when you make that the horizontal viewing angle. In portrait mode, I
>> either have to drop back to black-and-white, or only look at the monitor
>> from slightly to the left (and/or close one eye).
>
>
> 'Scuse my ignorance ... what exactly does the 40° viewing angle mean? Why
> does this have that end result?
>
> L
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