Ask HN: How many people would buy a 1:1 monitor?

Re:Ask HN: How many people would buy a 1:1 monitor? by wwortiz on Saturday November 27, 2010 @10:43PM (#1946593)

Buy one and rotate it sideways (all modern OSs have support for this and plenty of monitors rotate freely).

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Re:Ask HN: How many people would buy a 1:1 monitor? by zmmz on Sunday November 28, 2010 @02:40AM (#1946942)

The problem with rotating displays is that LCD pixels tend to be taller than wider ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pixel_geometry_01_Pengo.jp... ), hence if you rotate a display it degrades the image quality. Cleartype especially starts looking horrible.

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Re:Ask HN: How many people would buy a 1:1 monitor? by jaysonelliot on Saturday November 27, 2010 @11:19PM (#1946660)

I remember what a breakthrough it was when Radius came out with a CRT that could be pivoted to display in portrait mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh5175Q4Vgo

We had one in the computer lab at my school, I would work late in the evening just to get some time on the Radius monitor.

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