off topic- lcd or crt?

[Soquili]

Hi Richard,

My LCD is a 17 inch model, set to 1024 x 768. The max resolution is 1280 x 1024 at 75Hz. It supports true 32bit colour depth. The footprint is very small, especially compared to the 19 inch CRT monitor I was using.

Dave - so far no stuck pixels. But it's only one week old, so who knows what may happen at some point in the future. I had one of the first LCD portable TVs and it developed some stuck pixels after a couple of years. I also spent about 30 minutes tweaking the colour, gamma, etc to get it to my satisfaction.

Soquili

[krelvin]

When my workstation died with a mother board failure, I bought an HP system that came with an 18" LCD flatscreen monitor. Before I set it up, I told my daughter that I was most likely going to give her the LCD as I had heard about color problems etc...

I replaced the 19" tube and found the LCD is great. That combined by the fact that all of sudden I had a desk again made me keep the LCD. she has the 19" tube...

Less heat, no flicker (even when the fan is on), a ton of desk space to put more crap on and some humor... The cat was used to jumping on top of the monitor but got a shock when there was no top... :-) Cat now bugs her..

[michaelward]

I've have a new 15" LCD monitor - there are no banding issues.

The only problems there are is a lack of contrast compared to a CRT, there are some slight ghosting problems, and the viewing angles change the perception of the screen.

BUT, if I hadn't been so cheap I could have got a monitor with none of these problems.

Pay for the quality and LCD monitors can be very impressive

(BTW, mine has a really cool pivoting feature, where I can turn the screen from landscape to potrait http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif )



Michael Ward
http://www.leythers.co.uk
http://www.metalandplastics.co.uk

[mikeengles]

Hello

I waas talking to a support person from NEC who make very nice LCD displays. He told me that LCDs work best when used with a low refresh. 60HZ is fine. This is the opposite from CRTS , where flicker is a problem. LCDs do not suffer from this.

I actually went and bought a LaCie 19 inch CRT.It is terrific. Very good geometry and colour with a footprint the same as my old 17 inch. I do not think that LCDs are good enough yet for graphics based on photography. The time will come. In the meantime CRTs are best.

Mike Engles

[RAMWolff44]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by D. King:
I found a great spot for visual tests including these two pages used to help calibrate the white point and black point of a monitor.

http://www.scarse.org/adjust/black.html

http://www.scarse.org/adjust/white.html
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks David for the links, my new monitor passed these two tests. I have sent the links off to some other friends as well. Very helpful!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Richard http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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