What's your monitor width in pixels?
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My current monitor is 1280x1024 because when I bought it I was OCD about 1280x720 video being displayed without scaling in fullscreen mode. And probably my next monitor will have a width of 1920 for the same reason.
So, what's your monitor's width, anyway?
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did you say you have ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder?
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No, it was just an expression; when you say you're "OCD about something" doesn't necessarily mean you are actually OCD.
It's just that I can't stand video pixels being resized by non-regular factors. I cringe when I see that a lot of "720p" LCD TVs are actually 1366x768; in those displays, 720p video needs to be scaled by a factor of 1.0667, and 1080p video, by a factor of .7111. If manufacturers were not so [insert favorite expletive], they would make 720p displays that were really 1280x720. This way 720p video would not need to be scaled, and 1080p would be scaled by a factor of 2:3, not that bad in my opinion, as it means you're taking every 3x3 block and scaling it to a 2x2 block.
And that's why I bought a 1280x1024 monitor instead of the more popular sizes, because I did not want video to be scaled by irregular factors and Full-HD capable monitors were too expensive at the time. And that's also why I have a 1280x720 projector instead of a "720p" <cringe> HDTV.
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I have a 22" Samsung now and I use it with its "native" resolution; 1680x1050. Some things are a bit tiny (especially for my wrong eyes) but generally speaking, I am fine with it.
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