How to Choose Between the Three Types of Laptop Displays

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Chris Bryce from superservice.com. I'd like to talk to you now about how to choose between the three types of laptop displays. Now the three types of today are XGA, VGA and then high gloss. Now the high gloss monitors on laptops today, are normally going to be XGA, but what they do is they give you a glossy appearance to the screen which allows you a little less glare and a truer feel, its very much like a tube monitor, the old CRTs that you might use on your desktops. But you get that feeling on a laptop by going with the high gloss. Now it does add a little bit of money to the cost but to me, its the best way to go. If you end up doing the standard monitor that's not glossy, you'll be able to choose between VGA and XGA. Now what that allows you is choices in resolution. VGA is almost outdated now but it doesn't allow any of the wide screen formats so you can't go with 1400 by 900 resolutions or HD style resolutions without going to the XGA. And on that same note, when you do have HD if you're doing DVDs that are in Blu-Ray or HD videos, you're going to get the best quality viewing experience out of the glossy display. Glossy is a little bit harder to keep clean from fingerprints and smudges and that, but you can do that simply with Windex to make sure that you have the ultimate viewing experience. That's how to choose between the three types of laptop displays."