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INTRODUCTORY NOTES on Bargain Computer MONITORS : (most bigger than 20" and most for less than $150) I prefer Samsung monitors because of the good-quality of the picture on their TV's and monitors --- and because, around 2014, I saw an example of vertically scrolling text (black letters on a white background) in a 'box store' with several other makes of TV's (Vizio, LG, Philips, etc.) around a Samsung, and the letters on all the TV's except the Samsung were 'breaking up'. In spite of my preference for Samsung monitors, for price competition purposes, I present some other makes of monitors. In terms of screen resolution, nowadays (in the decade 2010-2020), it is quite reasonable to want a computer monitor screen with at least 1920x1080 pixel resolution (2,073,600 pixels total). 1920x108 is the resolution of high-definition TV programming such as that on BlueRay disks. The high-end engineering workstations of the decade 1995-2005 were on the order of 1024x768 (786,432 pixels total) or 1280x1024 (1,310,720 pixels total). And before that, circa 1985-1995, monitor resolutions of 640x480 (307,200 pixels total) and 800x600 (480,000 pixels total) were common. Around 2015, much higher resolutions than 1920x1080 were becoming common as '4K' resolution big screen TV's were coming out with a resolution of 3840x2160 (8,294,400 pixels total). In fact, even small laptops and 'smart phones' were coming out in 2015 with very high screen resolutions. For example, Microsoft began coming out with high resolution screens on their 'Surface' laptops --- probably in response to Apple coming out with their 'Retina' displays on iPads and Mac's around 2012. Note the data on PPI (pixels per inch) and PPD (pixels per degree) on the Wikipedia 'Retina_Display' page. Some example resolutions on Acer, Microsoft, Samsung, and other devices in 2015: Insignia Flex 8 inch Tablet - 1280x800 = 1,024,000 pixels total Acer 11.6 inch netbooks - 1366x768 = 1,049,088 pixels total Nabi Dreamtab 8 inch Kids Tablet - 1920x1200 = 2,304,000 pixels total Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 - 2048x1536 = 3,145,728 pixels total Microsoft Surface Pro 4 - 2736x1824 = 4,990,464 pixels total Microsoft Surface Book - 3000x2000 = 6,000,000 pixels total A wide range of examples of screen resolutions on specific devices is presented on the Wikipedia page titled List of common resolutions. This list is in order by total pixels of the display --- in other words, the product of the number of pixels horizontally and vertically. Given the explosion in higher and higher screen resolutions, it is likely that, around the year 2020, a popular screen resolution for desktop computer monitors will be around 10,000,000 pixels total (around 4096x2304, a 'Retina 4K' display).

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