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Tom Reviews 13 LCD Displays

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the slimmer-is-better dept.

n3r0.m4dski11z noted that Tom's Hardware has a review of 13 LCD Displays for anyone who has been thinking about making the leap from the CRT to that fancy shmantsy LCD stuff thats all the rage with the kids these days. As usual, they do a pretty good job explaining the issues. In this case comparing CRT and LCD technology, as well as covering a ton of screens.

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  1. Re:Quality?--it's the stores that suck! by coats · · Score: 5, Informative
    LCDs display much better at their design resolutions than at other resolutions (think about it--you might say that they have "hard-coded" pixels, instead of "wherever the electron beam hits.") Stores, unfortunately, don't bother to set them up like this, and instead run their display samples at some stupid resolution like 800x600 that is way off the actual resolution of the screen. Result: they look horrible.

    A properly set-up LCD running at its design resolution looks sharp!

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  2. LCDs by nature are sharper than CRTs by yerricde · · Score: 5, Informative

    In addition to the advantages and drawbacks given in this section of the article, color LCD technology is inherently sharper than CRT. Because of the inherent misregistration of the red, green, and blue planes of pixels, it's possible to address sub-pixels individually, resulting in a nearly threefold improvement in the effective horizontal resolution. More info is available here, Slashdot covered it here, and software to sharpen bitmap images on LCDs is available here.

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  3. Ars Technica LCD buyers guide by Digital_Quartz · · Score: 5, Informative

    On a related note, Ars Technica recently pushed out a Flat Panel buyer's guide.

  4. My LCD is better for my eyes by peterdaly · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone who sits in front of computers all day who has a preference for ungodly high resolutions, my laptop has really helped my eyes. I recently got a Dell Laptop with a 15" 1600x1200 LCD display. For years my eyes have not been great. Not bad enough to really need glasses, but enough to bug me every now and then. Since I started using the LCD, I have had ever decreasing eye problems.

    The screen is so much sharper than any CRT at high resolutions. I am starting to consider replacing my 21" sony trinitron (sp?) on my home desktop machine with an LCD. I want more screen real-estate than these 13" screens, but the prices keep coming down.

    If you have eye problems as a result of using a CRT all day long, I highly recomend a high-res LCD.

    -Pete

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