To all that said "thanks", you're welcome. This was the hardest decision for me, between the 2 resolutions. I'm so glad I got to see them together as I would have always wondered "is there something better out there?" For me, no. For you, I hope this helps you with your choice.

amen

Yeah, I have the PowerShot G3. Had to open up an about:blank in Mozilla then use that as the custom white balance reference, then manual focus the shot, then take the picture with no flash to get a good macro shot of my screen.

It looks pretty decent, but then the monitor edges looks funny - oh well.

Might want to check that the LCDs on each computer are at the same brighntness setting - may be that the WSXGA is on full whereas the other is down a couple of notches.. check just to be sure.

I think I'm going to try and find a photographer that can give me some pointers on taking great pictures. I know my Canon S1 IS has a lot of manual settings, but I'm still learning all of the automatic stuff. There has to be a way to take really good shots of computer monitors and lcd.

John - My Canon has trouble in low light also. It takes GREAT outdoor shots, and great indoor if there is enough light.

Anyway, it all boils down to one thing.
The 3790 Rocks!!

can we get a close up of the bottom of the screen while u have a DVD playing?

Edit: higher res picture if possible

Doom 3 on widescreen...I just sploogied myself!!!

brightness and contrast aside, just based on looking at the different sizes of items on screen, wsxga is the way to go for me. thanks for the additional pics.

Couldn't agree more.



You should read the whole thread, this is mentioned several times. The wuxga is set to a higher brightness. Max on the keyboard on both (Fn+F10), and +20 on the wuxga in advanced display properties.



Sorry mjb, pics are done. For awhile at least. There is a slight amount of leakage about the size of a dime on the wuxga that the player is covering up on the bottom middle. Mine has none. This is a per screen thing though as I understand it, happens to the best of them.

Is this better? Same pic, just cropped different. All pics were taken at highest res (4.0mp) and on this one I had the camera as close as I could and still get both.

Very useful pics Jon. I just ordered my 3790 with WSXGA the other day from PCT. You don't have a Nushield on yours do you?

John to put it bluntly, you're the man!!

This puts me 100 times more at ease.

It's still weird how the WSXGA+ looks so much more vibrant then the WUXGA.

This makes me want to lean towards getting the WSXGA+ but I have a week to decide.

Thanks again for the work, I'm sure it answered alot of questions from potential buyers

Absolutely!

John's original post says that the WUXGA looks like crap on any resolution except 1920X1200.

Does this mean that ATI's stretch will not neatly and clearly double the resolution of 800X600, and produce vertical bars for 1600X1200?

If anyone asks what I'd use 800X600 for, there's only one answer: classic gaming!

No nushield. I'd love to have the protection but I don't care for the glare.

Roger, I was referring to setting different resolutions on the desktop only. Text & icons were blurry at anything that we tried but native on both screens. With gaming it is more like on a crt monitor. 16x12 looks the best, 1024 looks good, 800 looks kinda blocky, and 640 well, only if you have to. The doom pic I posted is 1024x768 and it looks pretty good. I would guess a true widescreen ratio on a game would be amazing but I haven't seen one yet.