Why do LEDs generate heat? (2025 Update)

In a town you get everyone's dog barking.

That is what I paid for the one in my computer room. It was a close out on a TV that wasn't "smart", 4k or any of the other fads. It makes a great monitor.

A quick look at Amazon shows it's more like $180 until you get into the UHD gaming monitors. Some are curved and most offer split screen.

One nice thing about Brexit is it's making the USD to GBP conversion a lot easier. I recently donated 10 GBP to an effort to move a ham group from the dying yahoo to groups.io and it cost me about 12 bucks.

My legal residence was in New Hampshire as was my business license. Unlike Massachusetts NH has no income or sales tax nor does it have draconian firearms legislation.

The US is rather history challenged and the Boston area is about as good as it gets. Bunker Hill, the Constitution, Old North Church, and all that good stuff. The Charles River is rather scenic with scullers and small sailboats. My office window overlooked it, one of the few times I've had a job with a view. There are concerts, bookstores, and all that good culture stuff. One year for the 4th of July the city put on a massive fireworks show in the harbor while one of the FM stations broadcast Handel's Water Music.

There is a thriving Chinatown and I'm rather fond of Chinese pastries. A short walk away you're in the North End with the Italian food, or there are Indian and Greek places if you go that way.

Strolling the Emerald Necklace was pleasant too.

There is that. No dogs in my neighborhood, just cats and they're pretty stealthy. I was on friendly terms with one tom who felt the need to kick ass every now and then but he disappeared around the end of August. I don't know if the family moved or the coyotes got him.

Let's keep a good thought. Coyotes gotta eat too.

This one is $95 and it has VGA

Yeah, but I kind of liked that one. He'd come and hang out on the deck when I was reading. It's like the old joke after you bummed a cigarette

-- my favorite brand, OPs. Other peoples. I like dogs and cats as long as they're just visiting.

I was looking at 32" monitors, not TVs, and they are 1080p not 720p. 4K prices are coming down and that's pushing the rest. 1080p TV's run about $150 depending. 720p is bottom end Walmart fodder, fine for OTA TV.

I suppose it depends what you are doing with your PC. Most people would never notice the difference between 720 and 1080.

- 40 inch 1080P monitor TV. - makes a GREAT computer monitor. - that's

Probably not for TVs. I don't do Blue-ray and most standard DVDs are

For monitors you have to look at the numbers. 720 is 1280 x 720 pixels,

At work I use a KVM switch between 3 different machines. The monitor supports 1600 x 900 resolution, but there is an occasional quirk when I switch back to my main machine where it goes to 1024 x 768. Not only is it ugly but the desktop is cropped to the point where the Start menu isn't accessible. Luckily I work from console windows mostly so there's always one accessible where I can type 'control' to get to the control panel and display settings.

Phones and tablets are the same. How much content you can display depends on how many pixels you have to work with.

For gaming monitors you may or may not be able to see the increased crispness. It comes down to the anti-aliasing used to remove jaggies. There's only so much smoothing you can do with limited pixels. Think CGA monitor in 320 x 200.

That's about right, figuring in the 25% discount for using Trump Buxs. I used to like changing money at a Canadian bank. I'd come out with a big handful of colorful pesos and feel African-American rich.

Going to Mexico and getting actual pesos was bizarre in the '80s. I bought s glass of lemonade from a street vendor in Nuevo Laredo and gave him a US dollar. I held out my hand for the change and he put some coins in it. Then he'd look at me, figuring I might really know what they were, and put some more coins on the pile. I came away with quite a collection of worthless coins. He probably short changed me but it was a hot day and I'd have been happy with a glass of water for a dollar American.

The Brits aren't doing too good either. I kicked in 10 GBP to a ham group last week and it cost me about USD 12. Same with the Euros.

Dunno. I use TVs as monitors a lot, particularly traveling and my video card always seems to find a mode that works OK.

Wouldn't the resolution be far too low?

For what? Most computer programs don't use anything near the available resolution. I am not really that much of a video card wizard but I have hooked my laptop up to old TVs all over the country (plus NZ) and I can always find a screen size that works. I have 4 hooked to TVs here and they all work fine. I know for sure 2 of them are 720s and I am thinking 3 are.

Even reading this usenet post, I'm using 1200 lines at 20". Presumably your TV quoted above would be 1024 lines at 32", so the text would be very blurry.