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Questions tagged [display]

Display devices used with computers, such as monitors

This tag is intended for questions involving display devices. This includes computer monitors and TVs (when used as computer displays) This is chiefly meant as a hardware tag; do not use this tag for questions about the displaying of content by software.

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What do the upstream/downstream USB ports on a monitor do?

I came across few configuration of a monitor and they include many different port along with some USB ports. Monitor: DELL P2214H, DELL P2414H In the monitor description it mentions that there are both USB 'upstream' and 'downstream' ports. What is…
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How do I lock and unlock the OSD of a "AOC monitor 21'"?

My AOC monitor 21' has an on-screen display, but I'm wondering how its lock function works. Can you help me figure out how to lock and unlock the OSD?
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How is my cursor whiter than white?

I recently noticed my cursor was whiter than the background white (pure 0xFFFFFF). I originally thought it was an optical illusion as taking screenshots showed that both the background and the cursor were at 0xFFFFFF. Then I took a photo of the…
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How important is it to keep an LCD computer monitor well-ventilated?

The Question How important is it to keep an LCD computer monitor well-ventilated? Backstory My friend built a DIY arcade cabinet for a video game that I programmed, and this cabinet will house an 18" LCD computer monitor inside of it. It's a…
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What to do with old laptop screens?

This question is inspired by another SU question I came across earlier today: What to do with old hard drives? It made me think about two long-dead laptops I have with perfectly good screens still inside. One is a Dell Inspiron 5100 and the other…
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The colour silver (and computer screens)

My Dad insists the it is possible to make a computer screen go silver, so silver that it turns into a mirror. I have tried to explain about pixels, but he doesn't understand it so how do I explain that a screen is light and you can't just make it…
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What the "NP" reading means for a DVI computer monitor?

I have a Samsung monitor connected to my computer by DVI, in the menu of the monitor, it shows "DVI 65.3kHz 60Hz NP 1680x1050", I want to know what the "NP" means. Edit: Thank you everyone, so what will influence this? The video card hardware, or…
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On my monitor: there is a live bug between the glass and the pixels crawling around

Possible Duplicate: How could I safely fix my walking “dead pixel” bug? There is a bug behind the display on my monitor, how do I get it out? if it dies while being on the screen I'll be stuck with it hiding about 4 pixels. It's quite bizarre…
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Could I modify my LCD display to prevent it from going to sleep?

I have an LCD display on my work bench that I use with various machines. I would like prevent it from momentarily going to sleep when I reboot a computer. It would allow me to see the POST for a longer period of time. It takes several seconds to…
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How can I record the desktop screen at 60 FPS?

I know there are many screen capturing programs, but is there any free software that can record my desktop activity at 60 frames per second?
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Are there computer monitors that don't use backlight technology?

I'm looking for a computer monitor or computer research being done into having computers not use a backlight, and instead just work off what light is reflected of things in the environment. This would have great outdoor application, since all…
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What's this hole with a lock symbol on the back of my monitor?

When I inspected my monitor I found a hole with a lock symbol (pictured below). What is this? What is the function of this hole? My monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster SA100.
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Why is text blurred when I rotate the screen?

I have a rotatable display which I tip up so that I can fit more code on the screen. However any text on the screen looks just the slightest bit less sharp on the rotated display. Can anyone tell me why this is, or better yet, how to 'fix' it?
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Cobbling together a programmable digital picture frame

I'm looking to throw together an ultra-thin, programmable, "display" that's sufficiently light weight so as to be wall-mountable. Think digital picture frame, but a proper (very low power) computer. The best thing I've found thus far is a Fit-PC2…
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Lack of large 4:3 flatscreens / wide screen in portrait mode

I have decided after long enough to get 2 decent sized monitors for programming on. I was really please to see that I can choose from endless really big, really cheap TFT LCD's - then I realised they are all wide screen! I don't want widescreen, I…
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