[Elecraft] P3 VGA output [monitor resolution thread closed]

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Fortunately displaying the SVGA's output works well on non-native 
resolution monitors with the P3's data.  The blurring at non-native 
resolutions usually is most apparent on small text and photos on PCs. In 
the case of the P3, our text is much larger than that and the spectral 
data looks great on non-native resolution monitors. We've tested this 
with a number of monitors whose native resolution is different than the 
resolution put out by the P3-SVGA adapter. It looks great.

That said, we plan add several additional monitor resolutions to the 
core three currently supported. Also, this is firmware downloadable, so 
if we find another resolution that is really needed, we can add it at 
any time. (Thought it takes a new FPGA design for each resolution - we 
store all of these FPGA images in on-board flash memory and load the 
needed FPGA image for each resolution.

Please don't argue what is best here. We're just looking for a list to 
use (and it looks like we have a good selection to pick from already - 
thanks!)

So lets -close- this thread for now.

73, Eric

www.elecraft.com


On 12/19/2011 2:32 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jim Brown<jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/19/2011 1:21 PM, Doug Person wrote:
>>> Very few monitors in use today (for web-browsing) can accommodate 1024 x
>>> 768 as a native mode.
>> This is a computer geek's view.  So far, I've never seen a monitor sold
>> for use with computers that would NOT run at 1024x768.  If you would
>> like to come by my QTH I can show you ten that DO work at 1024x768.
> The key word is "native". LCDs, being digital, have a native
> resolution, where each pixel to be displayed maps directly to a pixel
> on the screen. Most monitors will find a way to display some
> resolutions lower than their native one, but it may not look pretty
> (either "blurry", or maybe not filling the entire screen).
>
> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution
>
>      ~iain / N6ML
>