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Making LCD Displays Snappier

Posted by timothy on from the faster-please-faster dept.

newSlashUser points out a very interesting article at ExtremeTech about a new means of more quickly controlling LCD panel response, so the old complaint that LCD panels make poor displays for gaming and high-motion video may be whittled down a bit. As a bonus, the change is all in the controller, so it doesn't require any change in the way the panels are manufactured.

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  1. My biggest complaint about LCD screens by minus23 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is the fixed resolution they come with. Many applications I use for 3D require at a minimum 1280X1024, but work best at 1600X1200. So I wouldn't say that slow draw is the only problem, as this site states.

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  2. LCDs for gaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    What the hell? If you can afford an LCD screen you sure as hell won't use it for gaming, are you?

    Why is it that everything has to be measured in "how the hardware runs Quake 3"?

    Scientific computing is the real hardware test!

  3. Sounds fishy by dingo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the whole article struck me as a little bit "telemarket shopping"ish i think i will reserve judgement untill i see one in action
    mind you, a monitor on the wall would be nice :)

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  4. Re:Active LCD Screen by torgosan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OT and screw the karma:

    The market-droids have gotten to you. You didn't upgrade, you replaced. Big difference.

    Semantics, sure, but this mind-set plays into the spew of the market-droids just a bit too much for comfort.

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  5. Re:WTF by statusbar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As others have pointed out, the LCD stops the transmission of light when voltage is applied, hence giving you black.

    But one other nit-pick: "I don't understand why you need power to produce black" - No you don't need power. You need Voltage. The LCD cell acts like a capacitor and does not pass DC electricity though it. So no current, and hence no power used.
    Leakage would probably be in the micro-amp range.

    --jeff

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  6. Re:Look to Apple by Paul+Komarek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Aren't pretty much all consumer LCD screens produced by the same company, and remarked by Apple, NEC, etc?

    -Paul Komarek

  7. No such thing as a free lunch by renoX · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I just wanted to add that this technique while very nice is not entirely free.

    The "voltage spike" used to lower the response time means that there is an increase in power consumption (sp?).

    So laptop users may not want this feature enabled while they are traveling..

    Of course it depends it the increase of power consumption is large or not..