Re: Monitor Size Question
2017/03/13 14:23:09
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Several years back, I moved to use HDTV's for my display monitors, rather than the traditional computer monitors. I get WAY more screen for the money that way. Most, if not all, motherboards these days come with HDMI ports, so I connect up my primary display with the HDMI port, and then I have a 2nd or at times even a 3rd display hooked up to either VGA or DVI ports.
My current computer's CPU has built-in graphics, and my primary is a 43" HDTV I picked up for $250, and my 2nd display is a 32" HDTV I picked up for $199. By using HDMI for the primary and the DVI for the 2nd one, it works flawlessly.
As a bonus, the on-board audio from the motherboard gets sent through the HDMI cable to the HDTV, so I let the tv's speakers play the Windows audio (YouTube, Media Player, etc).
(Edited to add) - Windows is quite happy to support multiple displays, and so is Sonar. I normally will have the Track Pane on my primary display, and I have the Console View on the 2nd display. You can just drag stuff from one display to the other (and back again if you want to), and not only that, but in Windows, you can tell Windows which screen is on the left or right, or even have it function as if one if above or below the other - this makes it so that when you drag the mouse off of one display, it will then appear on the 2nd display as if they were both connected, making it a logically smooth change from one to the other). What I mean is that for MY setup, my 2nd screen is actually on the left of my primary display. By telling Windows which screen is on which side of the other, it can then make it so if I drag my mouse off the primary screen moving to the left, then it properly picks up the mouse on the 2nd display, coming in moving right to left. It makes sense visually to work like that, and if I ever move that 2nd display to the right side of my primary display, I would simply reflect that change in Windows and it would make it work going from left to right.
Bob Bone
Wisdom is a giant accumulation of "DOH!"
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