Big Screen Upgrade
Nov. 23rd, 2022 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeAs I may have mentioned, a few days ago, my main monitor for my personal computer failed. I have a setup on my desk where I have one monitor for each of my personal and work computers, with a third monitor shared between the two and placed between them, and with a switch box to select which computer runs to the shared monitor. At the time my personal machine's main monitor failed, I unplugged the shared monitor from the switch and connected it directly to my personal machine. This worked, but left me without the two-screen setup I prefer for my Day Jobbe.
Lisa and I went to Reno yesterday for a final pre-Thanksgiving shopping run. While doing so, as we were passing Best Buy, she suggested we go look for a new monitor. Somewhat to our surprise, we managed to find two monitors that were not Made in China. We ended up buying the Samsung LS32A700 that was made in Mexico.
Here's the new monitor. It has a 31 in / 80 cm screen, which is huge compared to the other computer monitors we have. It's essentially the largest monitor I could have without redoing the whole desk set up. In fact, it's almost too large. I've had to push it as far back as I can to get the right perspective.
It took a while to get this to work. Far from being "plug and play," we spent over an hour experimenting with cables and settings. The monitor has both an HDMI and DisplayPort plug, and comes with an HDMI cable. While we managed to get it working, for reasons I don't understand, any video I played, either locally from my computer or on YouTube, was out of sync with the audio, except when I shrank the video very small. However, I do have a DisplayPort cable, and when I swapped to DP, everything worked fine. Unfortunately, the laptop itself only has HDMI (the DP cable is from an external USB port extender hub). I hope the A/V sync problem won't happen the next time I connect the laptop to an HDMI monitor.
This morning, I was able to move the shared monitor back into place, and to my relief, it worked almost immediately on both of the computers with which it is shared. The new monitor dwarfs this 21 in / 55 cm Dell monitor. However, the main use of the smaller monitor is as a secondary monitor for both machines, for which it does work pretty well. Besides, there's no more desk space for a larger monitor. (Not shown is the 24 in / 60 cm main monitor for the work machine, which is to the left in this photo.)
The new, larger monitor should, I hope, make video editing much easier, as Adobe Premiere spawns so many different tabs in order to effectively edit stuff.
Lisa and I went to Reno yesterday for a final pre-Thanksgiving shopping run. While doing so, as we were passing Best Buy, she suggested we go look for a new monitor. Somewhat to our surprise, we managed to find two monitors that were not Made in China. We ended up buying the Samsung LS32A700 that was made in Mexico.
Here's the new monitor. It has a 31 in / 80 cm screen, which is huge compared to the other computer monitors we have. It's essentially the largest monitor I could have without redoing the whole desk set up. In fact, it's almost too large. I've had to push it as far back as I can to get the right perspective.
It took a while to get this to work. Far from being "plug and play," we spent over an hour experimenting with cables and settings. The monitor has both an HDMI and DisplayPort plug, and comes with an HDMI cable. While we managed to get it working, for reasons I don't understand, any video I played, either locally from my computer or on YouTube, was out of sync with the audio, except when I shrank the video very small. However, I do have a DisplayPort cable, and when I swapped to DP, everything worked fine. Unfortunately, the laptop itself only has HDMI (the DP cable is from an external USB port extender hub). I hope the A/V sync problem won't happen the next time I connect the laptop to an HDMI monitor.
This morning, I was able to move the shared monitor back into place, and to my relief, it worked almost immediately on both of the computers with which it is shared. The new monitor dwarfs this 21 in / 55 cm Dell monitor. However, the main use of the smaller monitor is as a secondary monitor for both machines, for which it does work pretty well. Besides, there's no more desk space for a larger monitor. (Not shown is the 24 in / 60 cm main monitor for the work machine, which is to the left in this photo.)
The new, larger monitor should, I hope, make video editing much easier, as Adobe Premiere spawns so many different tabs in order to effectively edit stuff.
