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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. 13" by hogsback · · Score: 0, Troll


    13" is way to small for me and, I suspect, most developers.

    Try again next year.

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    Hogsback
  2. Why you should wait for OLED by va_willy · · Score: 0, Troll
    A couple of months ago, I was hell-bent on purchasing a new flat screen LCD monitor. I learned the hard way that these devices are nothing more than overpriced toys that have few advantages over a CRT monitor. After buying and returning three LCD panels, I come to share my experiences with you. This is what I found out:
    • Price. Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that LCDs cost about 5-7 times a comparable CRT. The simple fact of the matter is that manufacturers understand how to make CRTs well, and the same cannot be said of LCDs.
    • Picture quality. All of my LCDs had a terrible viewing angle - no better than 15 degrees to either side. Furthermore, ghosting was a big problem with games (even with active matrix, or DSTN, displays), and all of my units had several always-dark or always-light pixels. This should not come as a surprise, as most manufacturers will tolerate shipping units that have as many as 25 or 30 broken pixels.
    • Weight. OLED products promise to significantly reduce the weight of the display, because they will not require so much glass to produce.
    • Durability. LCD displays are scads more sensitive to EMF, shock, and time than CRT displays are. Dropping my CRT resulted in a few scratches; dropping an LCD results in a sloppy mess and a couple hundred dollars down the tubes.
    • Compatibility. I had problems getting two out of the three LCD monitors to run with Linux. Since they rarely use a standard VGA connector, they require a proprietary video card which sometimes will not have open source driver support. Given that I run an all-open source shop this was unacceptable.
    What will OLED help address? Well, the simple answer is "everything." I have tested prototype OLED displays and I would recommend them over anything the LCD manufacturers offer. LCD is a technology that deserves to die, and I only hope that we will be giving it a proper burial in short order.

    will