Blinded in one eye

[PAH]

One of my 24" monitors died overnight. The power light comes on but no-one's home. It just gives me black looks.


What's the best setup you've got or used? Anyone got multiple 30 inchers!?


Is the pinnacle still 30" (with 2560x1600 resolution) or should I be looking elsewhere?

Off to bury my dead monitor in the garden.

[gingerjedi]

One of my 24" monitors died overnight. The power light comes on but no-one's home. It just gives me black looks.


What's the best setup you've got or used? Anyone got multiple 30 inchers!?


Is the pinnacle still 30" (with 2560x1600 resolution) or should I be looking elsewhere?

Off to bury my dead monitor in the garden.

I've seen a fuel test rig with 12x 24" monitors all showing boring data, what a waste.

[administrator]

My deepest sympathies.

Two 24s and two 19s is my current set up. Any less than this and I start getting annoyed. I always try and make sure I buy monitors with a three year warranty

Enjoy the hunt for a replacement. Just had a quick look on ebuyer - 27s look just about affordable to me - 30s a bit out of my price range!

[Support Monkey]

worked for a highways company and they setup an office for monitoring the traffic and they had 3 x 42 inch monitors and each one could be split down into multiple displays from the traffic light cameras around town, the picture quality from the cameras and the screens was fricking amazing, were talking at least 5 years ago now

[Lockhouse]

Three Samsung 24" widescreens on my desk at home. The missus calls it Mission Control.

[PAH]

I always try and make sure I buy monitors with a three year warranty

Yeah, mine are Dell with 3 year warranty. The one that's died is from October 2007, so out of warranty.

[PAH]

Three Samsung 24" widescreens on my desk at home. The missus calls it Mission Control.

Hmmm. Tempting. But I'd need a bigger desk unless going for quads in a 2 x 2 configuration.

At which point I'd have more screen than I know what to do with. Having CUK open on one monitor is distracting enough, never mind having room for iPlayer et al!

[PAH]

3 x 42 inch monitors

I'm guessing those were TV style monitors where you get more inches but not pixels?

It would be great if they produced such a large monitor with the same DPI as the typical computer display. Maybe they do but they're silly money, even for contractors.

I'm tempted to go beyond 24" for the higher resolution that seems to be only available on 27 or 30 inchers, as you still have to overlap windows on a 24" in many cases.

[amcdonald]

Just buy an hd telly with a decent contrast ratio (50,000:1 or better minimum) and they do just fine

[Pondlife]

For those of you that have >2 monitors. Do these run off multiple physical machines? If so, Do you have multiple Keybds etc or do you KVM switch it?