Financial Services Big Square Monitors Puzzle ?

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3 total messages Started by Trimble Bracegirdle Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:10

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Author: Trimble Bracegirdle
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:10

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Financial Services Square Monitors Puzzle ?
I'm in the UK & have been watching a BBC TV Prog. on the Financial Services 
Traders.
Basically an hour of watching many various people in London, New York at 
there share Trading
workstations .
Every one of the many,many Monitors they sit in front of was ( or looked ) 
square
or maybe 5 x 4 .. they appeared to be around 20" to 24"
No sign of 16 x 9.

How come ?? when recently I searched thoroughly re. monitors I saw no sign 
of such things.
The largest consumer available 5 x 4  is 19".
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Re: Financial Services Big Square Monitors Puzzle ?

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Author: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:37

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On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:10:06 +0100, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
<no-spam@never.spam> wrote:

>Financial Services Square Monitors Puzzle ?
>I'm in the UK & have been watching a BBC TV Prog. on the Financial Services 
>Traders.
>Basically an hour of watching many various people in London, New York at 
>there share Trading
>workstations .
>Every one of the many,many Monitors they sit in front of was ( or looked ) 
>square
>or maybe 5 x 4 .. they appeared to be around 20" to 24"
>No sign of 16 x 9.
>
>How come ?? when recently I searched thoroughly re. monitors I saw no sign 
>of such things.
>The largest consumer available 5 x 4  is 19".

Probably just older setups if they weren't widescreen.  

Right now I'm typing this on a Viewsonic 20.1" 1600x1200 that is still
going strong after about 8 years with only very minor anomalies
(although it was factory repaired once about 6 years ago, the power
supply went tits up and I sent it in for warranty work).

Most of the newer day-trader workstation monitor arrays are
widescreen.  Here's one example:

http://www.tradingcomputers.com/TCarrays.html

Some of those dedicated day trader workstations probably have
part-availabillity contracts with suppliers that could potentially
keep those old monitors going for a very long time.  Buddy of mine is
a day trader and he has some kind of custom system that I guess
qualifies as a computer, but everything about it is proprietary
including the OS.

Re: Financial Services Big Square Monitors Puzzle ?

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Author: Trimble Bracegirdle
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:12

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The program is made very recently.
Looking at it again they might be 19" 5:4  mostly Dell...there are many of 
those around.
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