Your assertion doesn't bear out my experience LR. I'm typing this on a box connected to a 32" Samsung lcd tv. According to the pc, the native resolution is 1360x768.
I've just picked up on Sprogg's "TV." Fed into that, it changes everything. T/Vs have to multi-synch to cope with all the resolutions.
g-g says:
I don't think you need "multi-syncing" with a TFT monitor in the same way that you do with a CRT one, my monitor refresh rate is set to 60Hz @ all resolutions and there is no flicker.
This is all to do with what used to be called the FRAME rate or frequency. While the output card is able to cover a varied frame output frequency, the flat screen usually can not. I wold be delighted to find a laptop that will truly go to even 70Hz. As I am prone to seeing the flicker. But this is clouding the main issue.
In the early days of colour monitors, even they were fixed line frequency. It was all to do with the cost of building the scanning electronics, not the phosphor matrix. Within a few years, the consumer would not purchase any CRT monitor than did not multi-synch. Mind you, I could charge nearly 3,000 quid for a 19" colour at 1280 X 1024. Dream resolution. So there was money in the kitty for development.
When Samsung came out with a competent and cheap little colour monitor that would handle VGA, 800 and 1024, they (possibly) coined the name Muli-Synch. That was the Model name on the box. The frame rates were reasonable, but were secondary to the line frequencies.
Soon everything in the CRT world was auto-synching. The only factor left to choose was the top frequency. Now, 1,600 was the dream...with the units coming in huge metal boxes. Soon Eizo and iiyama were taking over the world. They did this until Sony converted their Trinitron technology over to monitors. Again, they were selling around 2,600 quid plus VAT. Everything wold lock on to a range of frequencies and soon they would auto-fit the screen and memorize the settings for each res.
Now the flat screen comes along. Suffice it to say, I have never seen a laptop that would show a competent picture in anything but its
native resolution. I however, know that some people don't even notice. I have a pal that does all his financial stuff in fuzzy vision, 'because it fits the screen better.' I gave up after a while.
I simply can not understand why - if T/Vs can hop about on line frequencies - why a flat screen monitor cannot be made to do so. Yes, the frequencies are higher, but so what? I can only assume that the phosphor matrix has to be substantially better, because the electronics is elementary by today's standard.
The past thread that I did find, did not really state that the unit was truly multi-synching. I still wait to hear from Samsung to see if their high end units really do.