Who uses /wants dual monitors?

[tron3]

What size(s) are your dual monitor? Are they PC, DVI, or HDMI connector?

My main PC monitor is actually a 19" Sharp LCD TV. My main TV and 2nd monitor to the left is a Vizio 26". Both have pc inputs and not the preferred DVI, but the picture is awesome.

My desire for dual monitors actually dates back to 1998 when I found out that Windows 98 supported dual montors. One weekend while at the Air National Guard I was tasked to install a second video card in a pc and setup someone with two monitors. Let me tell you, that is no easy tast until I guessed what to do. Yes, I guessed and was lucky to get it working. Not like today where the cards come with two ports.

In 2004 I spent about $550 on a kick butt video card with dual DVI outputs, two adaptors, and even s-video for my new computer. Even years before that my old PC supported one pc output and s-video, but my old tv only supported coaxil. To get a PC picture on the screen I had to run the s-video to the VCR (With a composite adaptor!), turn it on & turn the TV to channel 3! Needless to say, even when I lowered the output resolution to 640 x 480 it looked like utter crap! Therefore, it was never used for a practical purpose, but was a novelty to show my nephew.

Well in October 2007 my brother gifted me with this 26" LCD Vizio. Located a cable for it the same weekend and now had a great LCD monitor and a piece of crap monitor in comparison. Now I realized I needed a new primary monitor. The Vizio is simply too big to fit in the hutch of my computer desk. Never really used it because the contrast of the two monitors was just bleck!

Last week I bought the Sharp 19" LCD TV because it fit and I could use the internal speakers, thus eliminating the external ones. No monitor I found could do both. If they did, they were too high to fit my 15" limit. Grrrr. But then I had to grab the cable off the Vizio to use my Sharp as the primary monitor.

So, I bought a great monitor cable off ebay for $5.49 shipped! Came today, and now I am writing this thread on my second monitor at 1360 x 768. My first official use of it. Both are 16:9 and have a nice blu-ray wallpaper.

Primary: 19" Sharp LCD HDTV / PC monitor - 1280 x 720 (Mostly used as a monitor.)
Secondary: 26" Vizio LCD HDTV / PC monitor -1360 x 768 (Mostly used as an HDTV.)

A simple 5-900 MHz splitter lets both receive terrestrial HDTV channels. I paid my life dues to have this, don't envy me. It didn't just come.