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calibrating 2 monitors
I have a 30″ and 23″ setup and I cannot get them to match but the most disturbing thing is the 23″ is a lot softer when hooked up as the second monitor with DVI port 2. Of course that is the only way it can be with a 30″ also running but I don’t remember it being this soft when running solo with DVI port 1
I’m planning on making the 23″ an HD monitor coming out of my Kona card once I get the HDSDI to DVI converter so it maybe a mute point but I was wondering if anyone is experiencing the same thing.
Thanks
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[sacci] “maybe a mute point but I was wondering if anyone is experiencing the same thing.”
Don’t know the answer to your monitor issues, but, thought I would mention that the term you wish to use is “moot point,” not “mute point.” FYI, here’s the derivation of that term:
“Moot dates back to Old English, where we find it in such words as Witenagemot, the Anglo-Saxon precursor of today’s Parliament (literally “meeting of wise men”). Mot basically meant “meet”, and it comes, in fact, from the same source as today’s word meet. That common source was the prehistoric Germanic word *motam “meeting”. So a moot point is a point that is discussed in a meeting. At least that’s what it was originally. Today the meaning has been corrupted to “no longer important, irrelevant”. How did this happen? It is probably a result of the mistaken interpretation of the word moot in a legal sense. Moot court is the name given to a legal exercise wherein a hypothetical case is discussed and debated. In the end, because the case is hypothetical, it is “irrelevant”, and so moot took on that meaning over time and that, today, is the more common meaning, even though most proscriptivists consider it incorrect.” – Mark Hotard: Words To The Wise
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actually it is a “moo” point, please see Joey’s explaination on Friends. English has never been one of my strong points, just wish it has the only language I know, well kind of know.
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Here on the Cow its definitely a “moo” point… And, your Englaise is just fine. A whole lot better than my anything else, I can assure you.
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sheesh talk about hijacking a thread. OK I have two monitors and have worked in many facilities where they have two different monitors. The last being a 20″ and a 30″ certainly noticed no softening, though once the 30″ did decide that it would only do 1024 / 768. So maybe just check them both and make sure they are running at their native resolutions. Calibrating two monitors to look the same can be a very tricky thing. I was lucky in that we had both display calibrated using some called ColorEyes with a monitor probe. FANTASTIC. We had both monitors matched perfectly plus made a profile that accurately represented the video transferred to 35mm and projected. This was so I could check the look of the film running on the 30″ in full scren. Boy did it seem dark!
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