Re: iSeries Access and widescreen monitors

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM,  <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can't figure out why people want a large screen and then
> sit 3 or 4 feet back from it.

Sitting closer to a smaller screen is not the same experience for most
people.  To take this to an obvious extreme, imagine watching a movie
on your smartphone held up to your nose versus watching a movie in a
theater.  There are some folks who will always prefer the latter, and
I'm one of them.

Personally, I don't sit 3 or 4 feet back from my monitor, but the way
my eyes work, sitting close enough to see individual pixels on a
screen is not as comfortable as sitting farther away.  I suspect
antialiasing is more effective if you can't see individual pixels.  In
any case, different people's eyes work differently.

John