No posting tonight
Busy day today so nothing on the web.
Did a quick trip into town -- I had upgraded the monitors on my music system to a pair of nice big Samsung 27" units. $270 each from Costco. Tack sharp and at 1920*1080, I can actually see the data in each track I am working on instead of having to zoom and close the individual tracks. Woo Hoo!!! Big upgrade from the Princeton VL1916's (1280 x 1024) that I had originally been using (and both units found great homes!)
I do not like the pedestals they sit on -- takes up too much room on an already crowded workstation so I figure -- Hey! -- I can weld up a framework that fastens to the back of the workstation and attach the new monitors through their VESA Mounting Interface Standard holes (
Flat Display Mounting Interface).
I look at the back of the monitors and no holes! Nothing. There is a sticky label on the back but the label is small enough that I know it is not covering my VESA holes. I Want My VESA Holes!!!
So I go back to Costco and they have a 32" Vizio with a PC Interface. Schweet! It has VESA Holes! It is $30 cheaper than the Samsung monitors! Life is good!
I get back home, unpack one unit and life is not that good. With the VGA input, the best resolution I get is 1366*768 which looks like crap. There are two
HDMI inputs and I will try that tomorrow but considering that the
unit is only rated for 720p, it looks like I got blindsided.
The Samsung unit is full-on
1080p so it looks like I am on to plan "C" -- fabricate a couple of clamps to hold each monitor and screw into the steel frame that I will be welding up tomorrow and return the Vizio units the next time I am in town. I have some nice Oak and Koa wood so these should look pretty nice and I'll just deal with the fugly pedestals for a few days...
Posted by DaveH at April 19, 2012 9:02 PM