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Old 08-10-2025, 08:02 PM   #3097
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
Web pages with line wrap disabled and that full screen on a 40 inch monitor still clip the text and have gigantic margins.
I first read that as a 40 column monitor, which were common in 1980. I bought an 80 column card and a CP/M Z80 card for my Apple II. Obviously I bought the wrong computer.

But what resolution is the 40″ screen? I like my 4K 23″ LG so much I wanted another, but I can't find any that small now.

There are no actual professional qualifications required for people to code web sites.

Web standards are also increasingly created by an advertising company.


Irrelevant: I got a S/H projector for €70 with a 5 year warranty. It's claimed to be able to downsample 4K to the native 1080p, but doesn't. Still, it's fine for VHS, DVD, BD, TV and Satellite. Spent €32 on a 1.8m white black-out blind held up by two mic stands. No bulb to fail and the LED backlight is OK indoors.

Anything that does 4K (like a PS5?) usually does HD anyway?

I see loads of projectors advertised on Amazon as 4K that are all really HD and now the supermarket has loads of TVs advertised as HD but are only 720p. Local TV and Satelllte is all either 576 or 1080. Europe DVDs are 576 (unlike USA 480) and BD are all 1080. How can they claim 720p is HD? They used to call it HD Ready which also was a lie as none of those TVs could receive Terrestrial HDTV, and 1080 is HD. Though I did once see a big plasma TV advertised as HD (it could accept an HD signal) but it was only 480 lines!
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