Frankly
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I did some rearranging and suddenly have a nice 44" section of blank wall in my office. My first instinct is to frame a medium sized print and call it done but then I got to thinking and I really could put a ~33" flat LED monitor on the wall, plug in an SD card and let it slideshow my portfolio continuously.
This sounds appealing... I don't buy televisions anymore but a quick glance tells me that for $200 I can get a 33" HD monitor and if I shop around I can find a wall mount that will work.
I understand that color fidelity won't be critical and I should be doing maximum quality sRGB jpgs... but beyond that what other factors should I be considering?
1. 24-7-365 power consumption and life span of a cheap monitor? What do you think?
2. Is there a particular brand that is a better value?
3. Cosmetically I can hide the power cable (or ignore it) but are there other considerations? Do any brands have a minimal or more attractive bezel?
4. I'd spend a couple hundred bucks on conventional framing anyway but if I spend more, like $500, is there something vastly superior?
Beyond sRGB maximum JPGs is there anything else I should be thinking about in terms of image processing?
This sounds appealing... I don't buy televisions anymore but a quick glance tells me that for $200 I can get a 33" HD monitor and if I shop around I can find a wall mount that will work.
I understand that color fidelity won't be critical and I should be doing maximum quality sRGB jpgs... but beyond that what other factors should I be considering?
1. 24-7-365 power consumption and life span of a cheap monitor? What do you think?
2. Is there a particular brand that is a better value?
3. Cosmetically I can hide the power cable (or ignore it) but are there other considerations? Do any brands have a minimal or more attractive bezel?
4. I'd spend a couple hundred bucks on conventional framing anyway but if I spend more, like $500, is there something vastly superior?
Beyond sRGB maximum JPGs is there anything else I should be thinking about in terms of image processing?