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LCD Round-up

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the screens-to-lust-over dept.

TheKillerBee writes "The TechReport has posted a nice comparison of several different LCDs. A plethora of benches are present to help you decide how to spend that Christmas bonus check!" The screen update times still aren't fast enough for gamers, but they still are ever so delicious.

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  1. Why Bother by TheEnglishPatient · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the article:-
    "The good will have to really outweigh the bad and the ugly if you want to justify an opulent LCD purchase to your boss, to yourself, or worse, to your significant other."

    Obviously LCD still hasn't bettered CRT so keep you old monitor and spend the dosh on something else instead.

    1. Re:Why Bother by KFury · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's funny how a 1280x1024 LCD at $799 is considered opulent. It wasn't so long ago that an 800x600 15" CRT cost more than that.

      Most places I've worked have sprung for Trinitron tubes back when they cost a premium. Why is it unreasonable to think they'll go LCD? Do you have any idea how much these things save in desk space? and frankly, they make users happy, which also helps the bottom line. The up-front cost is a small price to pay for the continuing dividends.

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    2. Re:Why Bother by tuffy · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Obviously LCD still hasn't bettered CRT so keep you old monitor and spend the dosh on something else instead.

      If you want to stare at text all day long, you'll need a CRT with a fast refresh rate to approach LCD's "no refresh" approach, so in that respect LCDs are far superior. But, if you want to play action games, you'll need an LCD with a fast update to approach a CRTs refresh rate. On the other hand, if you have too much desk space and need to put more watts through your UPS, CRTs are superior in that respect also. But, LCDs still don't have the brightness of a CRT.

      In short, LCD and CRT tech are different and the value of each will depend on just what the user is looking for in a monitor.

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  2. LCD vs CRT by theeds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Despite the years that lcd's have been around I still don't get why people buy them over crt. Yes they take up less space and if you poke them you can make cool designs, but past that they suck. I just hate it when I'm scrolling and the page gets all blurry, it's like a bad cam version of a movie.

  3. Re:Hello ignorance! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe the author was talking about ghosting caused by slow LCD updates, which is still an issue. Sure, you may not be able to see the flicker you get with CRTs, but you can see after-images when you've got a lot of motion going on.

  4. LCDs are fine for gamers by Getzen · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "The screen update times still aren't fast enough for gamers, but they still are ever so delicious."

    Just to set the record straight, many people, myself included, have found that update times less than 30 ms are plenty good for even the fastest games (UT2003 springs to mind). My 15" KDS is excellent for gaming -- I can't imagine ever going back to a CRT.

  5. The resolution still isn't up to par... by httpamphibio.us · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm a real estate whore... I'm currently running 2 19" monitors at 1600x1200 (3200x1200) and I'm seriously considering getting a third. I've looked at LCD's every once in a while and I've never been pleased with what I've found, I can get a very decent 19" for under $200, Viewsonic PF790's are what I'm using now. Lower cost, higher res, I could even get three of these and be right in the middle of the pack pricewise. Apart from the Apple Cinema HD (which I wouldn't mind getting four of) I can't think of an LCD that cuts it.

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  6. Wrong! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, but facts do. What, do you live in a cave? Apple makes LCDs that aren't attached to powerbooks and iMacs.

  7. Re:Hmph. by red_dragon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because they believe that:

    • Apple hardware is completely incompatible with PC hardware;
    • ADC only works with Apple hardware;
    • There are no ADC-to-DVI converters.

    Ignorance is bliss, some people say.

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  8. Re:One big problem (literally) with CRT's by ckedge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Short Depth monitors (like the Viewsonic PS790) have horrible quality problems. You either have abberations (one color shifted a pixel off) near the edges of the screen (which on a 19inch are pretty big) and a sharp center, or you have the same problem or a vague fuzziness in the center of the screen while having sharp edges. There's a big reason they dropped "short depth" as a "big feature point" and are now all over "flat", and quality and warranty-cost issues are part of it.

    AND to top it all off, "short depth" wrt tubes means 17 inches deep instead of 18.5 inches. Ooooh, so much more compact.