Computers and Related Hardware/Software

[bmwracer]

tabana wrote:

IIRC, you should have kept the other free one the store sent you... Mine died last year and bought an LCD with fast response time. No eye sore even at 60hz (I couldn't stand 2min at 75hz on a crt). No problem whatsoever with games like FPS or movies. Love it.

Probem with those fast response time LCDs is that they give up color resolution: 6 bits per pixel rather than the standard 8 bits per pixel that you'd get from a CRT...

[ralphm1999]

bmwracer wrote:

Probem with those fast response time LCDs is that they give up color resolution: 6 bits per pixel rather than the standard 8 bits per pixel that you'd get from a CRT...

I think thats' what makes night scenes just blobs of darkness with no detail....

[bmwracer]

ralphm1999 wrote:

I think thats' what makes night scenes just blobs of darkness with no detail....

I don't think you'd see that with a regular LCD TV.

[ralphm1999]

bmwracer wrote:

I don't think you'd see that with a regular LCD TV.

I've only watched them on display and don't recall a dark scene. I hope not as that is one reason so far I have not looked into getting one.

[bmwracer]

ralphm1999 wrote:

I've only watched them on display and don't recall a dark scene. I hope not as that is one reason so far I have not looked into getting one.

Take one of your DVDs to the store and try it out.

[chiba]

I'm not sure if this is the correct thread to request for a software..requesting for Ulead gif animator / any other software for creating animated gif.Onegai!
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[bmwracer]

chiba wrote:

I'm not sure if this is the correct thread to request for a software..requesting for Ulead gif animator / any other software for creating animated gif.Onegai!

You can always buy it....

[Anime Dad]

chiba wrote:

I'm not sure if this is the correct thread to request for a software..requesting for Ulead gif animator / any other software for creating animated gif.Onegai!

Check this out: http://www.mrfreefree.com/free_software/free_gif_animator_tools.html#

[chiba]

Anime Dad wrote:

Check this out: http://www.mrfreefree.com/free_software/free_gif_animator_tools.html#

Thanks!!!Get well soon
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[tabana]

You can do that in The Gimp and GimpShop too. GimpShop is The Gimp, but with photoshop's interface. I was able to make one once, so you should be ok. http://www.gimpshop.net

bmwracer wrote:

Probem with those fast response time LCDs is that they give up color resolution: 6 bits per pixel rather than the standard 8 bits per pixel that you'd get from a CRT...

Really? I didn't know that. Even with the digital cable?

Mine was kind of a bitch to adjust at first, cause they are no controls on the screen. You need to adjust them into a software and it saves them in the screen... somewhere. I don't do photoshop stuff, so I don't really mind.
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[Anime Dad]

I just took the resolution on my 17" LCD monitor all the way down to 800 x 600 (from 1280 x 1024) YUCK! How can people use it like that?

[krim]

<--- 1600 x 1200

[bmwracer]

tabana wrote:

Really? I didn't know that. Even with the digital cable?

It has nothing to do with the source, but the LCD monitor itself.

Check the detailed specs on the monitor.

LCD TVs don't have that limitation because they're optimized for video... If they weren't and the picture was crappy, nobody'd buy 'em, ne?

[tabana]

You're right. It seems that most LCD screens use dithered 18-bit color instead of 24bits. I checked my monitor and it support 16.2 million colors. Since 24bits is 16.7 million, looks like I'm missing a few.

krim wrote:

<--- 1600 x 1200

You wouldn't have one of those big 22" Apple screen, would you?
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[bmwracer]

Lost my DSL connection last night....

Probably a result of the fact that they're cutting up the street to run high speed fiber optic cable through the neighborhood...

Thought it won't be free.

[Terryb]

They were digging behind my apt too last year, still no fibre connections available yet I signed up for a test account though, first 6months are free for testing. 24mbit up/down

[bmwracer]

Terryb wrote:

24mbit up/down

That's scary fast.

[Terryb]

The 24mbit down isn't that fast (compared to my current ADSL, which does 20mbit down and only 100k/sec up) but I'd looove to have 24mbit upstream

[tabana]

20mbits down is great, but only 100kbits up is ridiculous. That's 12.5kb/s. It takes forever just to send a picture.
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[Terryb]

ROFL not 100kbits, but 100kb/sec

still good enough to upload an anime episode in 30mins, But that's the weakness of DSL. They don't sell any subscriptions (to consumers) with faster upstream speeds over here.