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Display Format Technologies Comparison

Posted by simoniker on from the beautiful-pixels dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The differences between LCD, Plasma, DLP, LCOS, D-ILA, and CRT are revealed, as well as their associated advantages and disadvantages, as Audioholics post a new version of their Display Technologies Guide With advances companies like Intel (LCOS) and Texas Instruments (HD2+) are making in chip technologies and cost reductions, one wonders just how soon CRT based TVs will become an antiquity we discuss with our grandchildren as they install their new high resolution, lightweight, affordable displays on their walls."

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  1. I still prefer CRT at times by Rufus88 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why? Because LCD displays suffer from "motion flicker". Black letters on a white background appear to have "double thickness" while you're scrolling or dragging a window around on the screen, rapidly switching between double thickness and single thickness. I have a dual-screen setup with my laptop, using my laptop's LCD screen and an external CRT simultaneously, and I can say for sure that this doesn't happen with my CRT. I don't use this for gaming, so I don't know if the gamers out there call the effect something else, but that's what it looks like to me.

  2. optical mice & games by David+Jao · · Score: 5, Informative
    I think older optical mice had trouble keeping up with FPS games but the newer ones have done a lot to fix the problems.

    Even hard core gaming sites like Sharky Extreme are now recommending optical mice exclusively in all their hardware guides.

  3. Re:The difference by Mattcelt · · Score: 5, Informative

    I beg to differ. Most videophiles will tell you that CRT front-projectors are still the way to go. You can't beat a 9" CRT tube for most applications - with DLP you can have rainbow effects, and LCDs by their nature always have grids. For pure video, CRT is the way to go for the time being.

    Now the 50x (2-4lbs vs 100-200lbs) weight factor certainly means that CRTs are less mobile than their newer digital counterparts, but be aware that there is a definite quality tradeoff.

    Myself, I'm installing a CRT projector in my living room. I'll take superb picture quality (and GREAT price) over portability any day.