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New MessageScreen Quality (modified 0 times) Greenspark
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What do others think about the quality of this screen compared to an Iopener/Webplayer/GCT?

I know it's smaller, but it seems better/brighter than both the IO and the WP. Comments?

05-23-2001 10:06:39

New MessageRE:Screen Quality (modified 0 times) Drogue_Anathema
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Don't know about comparison to IO or WP, but I have to say the screen is both better and worse than I expected.

I bought one to use mainly as a wireless web pad for surfing, e-mail, etc., and was hoping to use it as a digital picture frame (with slide-show screen saver or somesuch) when off-duty, but the screen quality rules out the latter. Only being able to display 4K colors really doesn't do justice to any of my digital photos.

On the other hand, whatever 4k colors this screen is capable of displaying must be optimized for the web, because most web pages I've browsed really look pretty good. Also, although I thought I'd get tired of scrolling around web pages designed for 800X600 or higher res, thankfully most of the web pages I visit with any frequency appear to have been created by competent web designers, who know how to scale for the viewer's settings.

One thing I am impressed with is the outdoor readability - the Stylistic's screen is much easier to read while sitting outside than my ThinkPad 600's TFT. Still disappears somewhat in direct sunlight, but in the shade under my lemon tree I can see everything just fine.

All in all, everything is relative, and considering what I paid for this I'm extremely happy. Thanks again Ryan!

05-23-2001 12:15:41

New MessageRE:Screen Quality (modified 0 times) yellow1
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What do you mean by 4k, 4 bit, probably not, anyway, you can set it to 16 bit as far as I can tell.
lokks pretty nice.
05-23-2001 12:20:29

New MessageRE:Screen Quality (modified 0 times) Drogue_Anathema
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According to the specs disclosed in this review http://pencomputing.com/features/fujitsus.html the Stylistic 1200 is only capable of displaying 4,096 colors. Although the graphics driver that Win98 installed (NeoMagic something or other, I think) is set at 16-bit color, what's being displayed on my screen definitely ain't 16-bit color. In fact, I have the ability to choose between 16- or 24-bit color (in addition to 16 & 256) under display properties, but doing so has no discernable effect on picture quality. What I'm seeing is nearly as good as 16-bit, but there's a perceptible dithering in several palettes.

Is there another video driver for this that I should be using? Has anyone gotten true 16-bit color on their screen (for instance, I know there's a way to hack an ePods from 256 color to 16-bit, but I was under the impression that the Stylistic's limitation was due to the type of DSTN screen it has rather than driver configuration)? Like I said, it's adequate for most of the stuff I'm doing, but when I want to display graphics you can definitely tell it's not 16-bit color, at least on my machine.

05-23-2001 13:47:17

New MessageRE:Screen Quality (modified 0 times) yellow1
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I see, well I saw a big improvement when switching from 256 to 16 bit.
There is some "twinkling" of the LCD which looks a bit like dithering I guess, but still looks like 16bit to me.
Maybe I'm overlooking sonething.
05-23-2001 13:53:34

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On the other hand 4,096 is much better than 256, so maybe that's why I'm not seeing a big difference with ral 16bit.
I'd say it's pretty adequate to serve as a Digiframe.
05-23-2001 14:04:15

New MessageRE:Screen Quality (modified 0 times) Drogue_Anathema
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Maybe for some, but not for me. I didn't spend all that time in Photoshop tweaking curves just to end up relegating my treasured digital pics to a low-end screen. Horses for courses...it's a great web pad, but it ain't no digiframe.
05-23-2001 14:22:41

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