[TriLUG] Re: Flat panel 17 or 19"

[Lance A. Brown]

Jeff Tickle wrote:
> Also remember that for some reason LCD sizes aren't the same as CRT
> sizes; I have no idea how they measure, but I sat my 17" LCD down next
> to my 19" CRT and realized they have the same size actual display.

*nod*  A 17" LCD actually has close to a 17" viewable area.  A 19" CRT is 
measuring the tube, or somesuch, and the actual image area is often an inch 
or more less. Clear as mud.

--[Lance]

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