Get the Picture
Aug. 10th, 2023 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI've been having some problems with eyestrain with the monitors on my desk lately. Now, I might be able to improve the situation with reading glasses, but I really dislike having to use them. And new contacts might help, but I still have a large supply of the current prescription. But the monitors that I have are both running off a VGA connector at 1920x1200 through a KVM switch and it's just possible that the conversions involved are contributing to the problem.
I have lately been on the email list from a computer reseller that has an enormous number of refurbished products available and they had a pair of Samsung QHD monitors for $170 plus shipping and tax. You know, that seemed like not a huge amount of money to see if they would help out and, if not, I could surely find some other place to use them.
Except that the KVM switch I use to switch between my home computer and the work machine is VGA. The new monitors are display port and HDMI. This set off a lot of research into KVM switches and the discovery that dual monitor KVM switches need to support something called EDID or else Windows will thoughtfully move programs between monitors every time you switch computers. Oh. And getting EDID support with display port turns out to be moderately expensive. I found a KVM with display port for one monitor and HDMI for the other, which is a combination that I can make work with just one adapter for the home computer, which has lots of display port and no HDMI.
And then Amazon put the KVM switch on a Lightning Deal yesterday. So I bought it.
The monitors and KVM are now sitting upstairs in my office, but I am short one display port and one HDMI cable. Another Amazon order will fix this in the morning.
I'll wire it up and we'll see how this looks.
I have lately been on the email list from a computer reseller that has an enormous number of refurbished products available and they had a pair of Samsung QHD monitors for $170 plus shipping and tax. You know, that seemed like not a huge amount of money to see if they would help out and, if not, I could surely find some other place to use them.
Except that the KVM switch I use to switch between my home computer and the work machine is VGA. The new monitors are display port and HDMI. This set off a lot of research into KVM switches and the discovery that dual monitor KVM switches need to support something called EDID or else Windows will thoughtfully move programs between monitors every time you switch computers. Oh. And getting EDID support with display port turns out to be moderately expensive. I found a KVM with display port for one monitor and HDMI for the other, which is a combination that I can make work with just one adapter for the home computer, which has lots of display port and no HDMI.
And then Amazon put the KVM switch on a Lightning Deal yesterday. So I bought it.
The monitors and KVM are now sitting upstairs in my office, but I am short one display port and one HDMI cable. Another Amazon order will fix this in the morning.
I'll wire it up and we'll see how this looks.
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Date: 2023-08-11 06:24 pm (UTC)