[quote]Actually, we are both wrong.
Nope, I defined it correctly.
Oh yeah, I had the numbers backwards on the monitors. The dell has the lower dot pitch.
Kinda proves your method of measuring isn't accurate or a proper definition doesn't it?
I'm not sure what you mean by my method of measuring not being acurate. I used the website you posted and a conversion table. There are 25.4 millimeters in one inch. Using that site, I find that there are 99.06 Pixels every inch in my 20 in monitor. So if we take the number of millimeters and divide it by the number of pixels we get a width of 0.2564 (which the site you linked also shows). The problem with your conclusion is that if the dot pitch really is just the width of the pixel, it allows for absolutely no room between the pixels, meaning the entire display would be seamless, which it isn't. Therefore, the dot pitch is the measurement from a point in one pixel to the same point in the next pixel, including the space between them. On LCD's, that is the very next pixel. On CRT's, it is the next similarly colored phosphor.
So, since math has been working for at least since the time of the ancient greeks, I'm going to go with that, the guy who gave me the information (since he's been working with lcd monitors for the last 6 years), and
the rest of the world.