What are the most inportant things to know about monitor ?
Usually the single most important value when you look at any monitor’s specs is the horizontal scanrate. Usually this value will tell you very much about the monitor’s capabilities. It governs the length of time it takes to draw a complete horizontal line on the display. Together with vertical scan rate it also defines the number of lines that can be drawn within a complete vertical refresh cycle. In effect – it tells you the resolution of the monitor. Other monitor spec values are useful, but only if you know the horizontal scanrate For instance:- ‘640×480 at 60Hz’ on it’s own doesn’t tell you much about the monitor – as it could describe anything from a domestic (NTSC) TV to a SVGA PC monitor. The horizontal resolution is probably the most misleading, as it’s thoeritically possible to have just about any horizontal resolution on almost any type of monitor which uses CRT tube. There are certain upper limits set by different technical things.
