ETC Express 24/48 plus widescreen LCD?

[NolanNolan]

We have an ETC Express 24/48 with a big clunky CRT monitor. I'd like to get some more desk space by swapping out for an LCD. Does anyone know if I can adjust resolution on the Express to suit a widescreen monitor or will I need to hunt down an old 4:3 LCD?

 

[DRU]

You can't boost the resolution of the Express. You can use a widescreen with it, but you'd have to lower the resolution of the monitor to match the output of the Express without distortion.

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[sk8rsdad]

You'll have to hunt down an old 4:3 VGA LCD, or accept that you can't use the full screen of a widescreen LCD. I'm pretty confident the Express doesn't have the video drivers to support multiple resolutions.

 

[RickR]

Or you live with really \/\/ i d e t e x t.

 

[sk8rsdad]

FWIW, widescreen is a marketing term. If they called them shortscreen fewer people would buy them.

 

[Stevens R. Miller]

...will I need to hunt down an old 4:3 LCD?

This is why I tell my wife that we never throw working electronics away. She hates that, but there it is.

 

[Amiers]

I'll check my expression tomorrow but I'm pretty sure it was plug n play with my HP23"WS. I will say it did take getting used to from the last place I worked as it was a 4:3 screen.

 

[soundlight]

I'd just get an old used 19" 4:3 LCD monitor off of eBay - I got a used, nice quality Dell one for only about $40 last year. Since they used to be the standard, there are a lot of corporate computing clearing houses dumping them by the dozen. You should be able to get a good one cheap.

Here ya go - about $50 shipped for the perfect desk space saver - the V-stand base one that lets you position it at the corner of your console. http://www.ebay.com/itm/201498096917

 

[Stevens R. Miller]

I'd just get an old used 19" 4:3 LCD monitor off of eBay...
Here ya go - about $50 shipped for the perfect desk space saver - the V-stand base one that lets you position it at the corner of your console. http://www.ebay.com/itm/201498096917

Yes, I agree. Here's another. I replaced the oh-so-nostalgic CRT my son's middle school was using with something similar. I think I was using it as a serving tray, or maybe as a doorstop, until then. When the world went to 16:9, these things just started littering store rooms and basements everywhere. Fact is, though, that they are still ideal for instrumentation, including things like control consoles. If one is creative, one can combine them with the new format in some surprisingly successful ways...

If space is tight (and when isn't it?), I also recommend getting a monitor stand. Worked well for me in a very cramped setting: