LCD***Hard Time Seeing

Hi All,

I'm now 70% blind(down from 90%) in one eye that I'm having a hard time getting used to the vision loss. I have a quality 19" Viewsonic LCD, 4yo, with Vista and I was having problems with reading text imbeded inside of pictures and alot of website text.

I'm now looking for a new 24" LCD for my charts and learned a few things that has greatly improved my 19" LCD viewing. I still need the 24" LCD as I need the addtional realestate a 24" offers.

Under display properities, click on DPI, then advance, and move the ruler to a higher precentage of scaling, check use XP scaling, then reboot.
Example: mine was set at 125% default and I tried 133% (to large of text) then 130% (just right for me)

Next check to see if your LCD (OSD) has a color setting and try the 9500kelvin setting. This makes my screen slightly blueish at first. A huge improvement in viewing for my type of back lightening that I have.

Under IExplorer tools, click on the General tab then fonts accessibility then check do not use webpage fonts, click "ok" twice. This over rides the webpage default fonts.

Make sure your graphics card is set at 75hz(not 60hz) and 32bit color.

This keeps all them websites with ity bity lettering from being hard to see for me.

T_Bone

Thank you.

Now can you do any thing for that blind spot off to my right when I drive on to a hiway? Next time may be one time too many and I may not be with you any more.

KennyP

Wonder if thay make tri-focal glasses? agh

Yes, been wearing them for years.

Wide angle mirror mounted on the right front fender, or an RV backup camera system with the camera pointed at the blind spot. My wife has had a couple of neck surgeries & has trouble turning her head, so we've been looking into solutions for similar problems.

Costco has wireless backup cameras for about $80, which actually work reasonably well. Only problem is I saw somewhere that the camera itself isn't rated to be continuously powered. Not sure what would happen to its longevity if you powered it on whenever the vehicle is running.

Keith

T_Bone, I've got a brother that pretty much blind with something called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) which is hereditary but somehow missed me. Anyway, he can't see much at all except occasional shapes. So he's got this talking watch that sounds off every hour and when he presses the button on it. Then I read your post and remember seeing under Start, Accessories, Accessibility under my Windows XP, and went there and saw Magnifyer and tried it for the first time ever. Holy cow, that really magnifies...but more importantly gave me a screen pop up that says at Microsoft's website they have more information on more products for visually impared. Maybe they may have surprises one never thought of.

Good luck there T_Bone, you don't got to tell me its tough even though I'm not going through what you are and even though I try to imagine (for my brother mostly), I know that I can't possibly. I just know that I can't, nor the frustration, but I will keep you in mind along with my brother whom is near and dear to me. I can't trade my brother places and I can't take his blindness away. And I do realize every day how blessed that I am and have been all my life.

Mark

Hi Kenny,

Your welcome!

You too? I was coming out of the PO the other day and missed a full sized black SUV. If it wouldn't have been for the wife, I'd t-boned that boat. Black is one of my hardest colors to see out of that eye.

T_Bone

Hi Mark,

Being totaly blind has to really suck. I'm just blind in the one eye and that really bothers me alot. Mine is from a cataract that the Doctor said "let it mature" a bit before having it removed. Well in the mean time I went blind in the eye.

Then after two Docs that are in it strickly for the money and tried to scam me, I'm pretty gun shy now of having anyone touch my eye as those Docs were supposed to be in the top of there field.

Then I started researching on my own and found out that cataracts are a diet defficency of zinc, "C" and "E". Ran into another Russian Doc that developed eye drops for reversing cataracts and that's what I'm using now.

In 5 mths using the drops, I've came from seeing minus 90% to seeing minus 70%. At minus 70% I can just make out who my wife is at 5ft but I can't see a large book on the table 2ft away.

T_Bone

Right before I had my lens implant surgeries, I used that magnifier, and it was awesome. Helps out even now on site with ultra fine print.

Hate to hear of your dilema.

I buy all my computer stuff from New Egg. Prices are great and service is outstanding.

I have attached a link to the website with the monitors highlighted.
New Egg

I can certainly empathize with both ya'll. T_Bone and circus. Gettin' old is disgusting!! Only one cure for it that I know of though.
Had a detached retina a while back and it is the PITS trying to see out of only one eye. SUCKS!!
Oh, well............I'll shut up now.

Thanks Bob, I've used Newegg alot in the past years. One thing I've noticed lately is there selling for MSRP. In fact last Wednesday night at midnight, they increased there pricing $30 on a LCD I was looking at.

T_Bone

This makes a big difference on LCD displays if you don't already have it turned on.
Clear Type

Gosh guys, I feel your pain my family history is healthy as a horse including hearing unfortunately eyesight is an issue working new trifocals now still can't get used to them hadem six months night vision is still good but have blind sides and I ride a motorcycle scary I look like one of those bobble head dolls going down the highway looking at the odometer and panel then left and right and of course all has to happen in tenths of a second, whew, I'm scared!

Hi cadet trooper,

You might want to give a reading lens a try. This removes all focal lines out of the lens viewing area and the lens will let you see adequate at a distance, enough for driving.

Tri-focals drove me nuts until I switched over too the reading lens. I used the other lens for seeing at great distance. so this made swaping out glasses too see distance/close alot less as I liked the reading lens for 90% of my viewing.

Enquire with your eye Doc and see what he says.

T_Bone

Hello KEB1
The camera can be hooked-up to the back up switch, that way will only come on when
backing- up.We set our cameras up that way.
Guido.

Yep--best invention since sliced bread! I wear them all of the time. Top is plain glass, center for reading or work, bottom for close tiny work!
Only place where they are difficult to use, is up under the dash board of yer truck or car!