Flat Monitors [OT]

[John Summerfield]

Tim wrote:

> You have to get ridiculously expensive LCD panels to compare to modest
> priced CRTs, and that's hardly a realistic test.  A realistic comparison
> of vaguely similarly priced domestic sets shows, every time, that a $200
> CRT set is vastly superior to a $700 LCD set.  The same goes for
> computer monitors - cheaper CRTs producing better pictures than even
> more expensive LCDs than the CRT device.
> 
> The attempt to pretend that LCDs are better than CRTs is just another
> case of the emperor's new clothes.
> 
>> MTF?  CRTs have _never_ been close to LCDs.
> 
> When we have twenty year old LCD displays still going strong, I might
> believe that.  Oh yes, CRT sets can have a long life.
> 
>> It's no accident that traditional CRT manufacturers
>> (e.g. Sony, Sharp) have shut down their manufacturing lines.
> 
> It's called marketing.  The current technology trends, LCDs, digital
> video, etc., have been a step backwards in quality.  For years the push
> was to improve the quality of devices, in more recent times it's been to
> see just how poorly things can be gotten away with (e.g. using the
> heaviest compression and lowest resolutions possible to get acceptable
> results).
> 
> It takes a really crap CRT (and there are examples of that) to look
> worse than a LCD.
> 


I have two 20" CRT Sun monitors, they're rated at 1600x1200 (but I 
accidentally ran one much higher than that once). Sun sells damned find 
screens, IMV, Mine were actually made by Sony, and others - HP and SGI 
included, sold the same screens with their own branding.

More recently I ran them at 1280x1024, principally on account of my aged 
eyes.

I also have a DELL 1800FP Ultrasharp which _I_  find easier to use 
(albeit I'm limited to 1280x1024) than the bigger Sun Screens. I sit 
fairly close: with my eyes level with the bottom I can easily read the 
top of the screen, when I sit to the side where my eyes are level with 
the edge, there is a bit of darkening - but I don't normally sit there.

I'm also pretty happy with this:
(II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: Samsung LTN150P1-L02
(II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 1400x1050

It's in my Thinkpad.

Back to Sun: here are Sun's current screens:
http://www.sun.com/desktop/index.jsp?tab=2
If you were going to buy a Sun screen today, it would be LCD.
Same at HP: see 
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF04a/382087-382087-64283-72270-444767.html



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John

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