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    Monitor w/ XPS m1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Gfresh404, Mar 13, 2008.

  1. Gfresh404

    Gfresh404 Notebook Evangelist

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    I just bought this Westinghouse monitor from Best Buy and love it. I just noticed one thing though, everywhere you look, it's advertised as having a 1000:1 contrast ratio and an 8ms response time. HOWEVER, in the appendix of the user's manual, it CLEARLY says "Contrast Ratio - 700:1 AND Response Time - 5ms." WHAT GIVES... Can anyone explain this to me?

    And it looks sick at 1920 x 1080 but for some reason when I outsource the resolution to the Westinghouse's native resolution 1920 x 1200, it get cut off and doesn't fit properly. I don't get this either, it's the same aspect ratio so why is 16:9 fitting better on a monitor that is natively 16:10. My XPS's resolution is 16:10 too @ 1680 x 1050.
     
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