OT: Dual 19" or widescreen?

DavidMcKnight wrote on 7/12/2005, 1:46 PM
We have two edit stations, one with dual CRT's and one with a single CRT. In the coming months I'm going to upgrade to either dual lcd's for each workstation, or single widescreens for each.

Which would you choose? As sexy as the Dell widescreens are, I'm leaning towards dual 19". Just curious what others are using or would use given the choice.

Comments

Nat wrote on 7/12/2005, 3:31 PM
Personnaly I'd get 17'' because they offer the same screen resolution for less money... I don't really need the display to be big...
cseanor wrote on 7/12/2005, 3:46 PM
I'm running dual-head with 2 Dell LCDs: a 17" (that came with the machine), and the 20" widescreen (which I added this spring). They are both about the same screen height, so they work really well together. You get the best of both worlds, and this combo is only about $100 more than 2 19".

Make sure your video card will support whatever config you go with (I'm sure you already knew that).
Yoyodyne wrote on 7/12/2005, 9:59 PM
I've got both - the big 24" dell as a monitor for video and two 19 inchers side by side for the computer display. The amount of screen real estate is amazing - it's like you can see the curvature of the earth.

just my 02
GaryKleiner wrote on 7/12/2005, 10:12 PM
On my main system I have a Sony 23" widescreen and a 21" CRT, so it's the best of both worlds. If I had to choose one setup over the other, I'd go with dual screens as you can move your windows around more.

I am REAL use to having my Vegas timeline filling up that widescreen though :-)

Gary
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/12/2005, 10:12 PM
Even more fun is a pair of 17" with the Sony 234 monitor as the External monitor, PITA to configure, but it works very nicely.
TheRhino wrote on 7/13/2005, 9:32 AM
I've just switched from a dual 19" setup to a 24" widescreen LCD. . .

I do not prefer to have the timeline split between multiple monitors. Spanning the timeline across multiple monitors is annoying because of the gap inbetween. The gap always gave an incorrect sense of the space between events, etc. It would throw me off when I was looking for something because my brain always saw that gap as part of the timeline. . . In addition, when you dump all of your tools, etc. on a 2nd or 3rd monitor, you still have to drag the mouse pointer across screens to get anything done. Again, my eyes would lose the mouse when it jumped from one screen to the next.

When I upgraded my main workstation, I added a Dell 24" widescreen LCD to serve as my main work area and I use a NTSC monitor [to the right] as a preview monitor via firewire. The Dell arrived with a great color balance & range, it matches my calibrated NTSC monitor so good that I can use it alone to do basic color correction. I couldn't do this with any of my other LCDs or CRTs no matter how I tweaked the settings.

Keeping Vegas all on one widescreen LCD does free up that second monitor port, however, so I did keep an older LCD to monitor the progress of DVDa3 or Nero that is working in the background while I am editing. The Athlon X2 multitasks so well that I can now burn DVDs while I am editing without either process being hindered.

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

musman wrote on 7/13/2005, 12:57 PM
"The Athlon X2 multitasks so well that I can now burn DVDs while I am editing without either process being hindered. "

Now that is cool. My 3 year old system w/ a 2.4 P4 is 1 job at a time. Nice system you have there, I'm very envious!
DavidMcKnight wrote on 7/14/2005, 7:06 AM
thanks everyone for your comments! I think we'll go with either 2 17's or 2 19's per station.
NickHope wrote on 7/14/2005, 12:44 PM
I'm with Nat. Save your money and just get 2 x 17". I've got 2 x Philips 170B LCD's and I really don't think 19" would be an improvement as the resolution is the same.
TheRhino wrote on 7/14/2005, 4:21 PM
You can find 19" LCDs for really good prices anymore. When the price is close, always go for the bigger screen(s). Over the past several years I upgraded from a dual 15", to a dual 17", to a dual 19", and now the 24" LCD. After working with each setup daily, I consider each of those steps an improvement over the previous. The 19" LCDs are the best bang for the buck [if you have room for them], so definitely go with those over the 17" screens.

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

WedVidMan wrote on 7/14/2005, 9:25 PM
Does anyone have a good "How To?" for properly adjusting color on an LCD?
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/14/2005, 10:07 PM
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration_tools.htm

Got some really good info here, and he's always very up to date
WedVidMan wrote on 7/14/2005, 10:34 PM
30" Olevia LCD on my desk. Too bad I can't close to the keyboard.
tygrus2000 wrote on 7/14/2005, 10:34 PM
these displays from doubsighte look interesting, but personally I will go for a large widescreen display when the price comes down.

I dont really need dual monitors since I cant see a need for that level of multitasking.

http://www.doublesight.com/prodcat_dualdisplay.htm