From:
"Tim"
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To:
"Community support for Fedora users"
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > You're lucky with your CRTs. The ones I've seen that were a few > years old, had bad screen burn, plus a nasty colour cast as one > of the electron guns had lost emission. I was glad to have my > last CRT monitor replaced here (by an LCD) because it had bad > Moiré patterning, which could only be cure by defocussing it > badly. > > Having used CRTs and LCDs, I would never go back to CRT without > a fight. Fortunately LCDs are (a) so cheap (I don't understand > your comment about outrageously overpriced LCDs), (b) the only > type commonly available. I've got CRT monitors, here, of 1980s vintage, still with excellent pictures. Of course, I've seen also seen bad ones, cheap and nasty monitors which were always crappy, from the word go. And middling ones which deteriorated in short order. But I'm certainly not going to say that "CRT monitors are bad" simply because the bad ones were. Only a few years ago I gave away a valve CRT monitor from the 1960s which still had a razor sharp image. I've seen plenty of bad LCDs. Everything from: Only the highest resolution ones don't look like you're staring at a fluorescent tube through flywire. Glaringly obvious dead pixels, or even a whole third of the screen all magenta. The colour response being quite crap (something that standard TV LCDs go to all sorts of tricks to try and get around). Very limited angle of view without getting strange distortions - thankfully that's getting better, but it's still not there. While it was still possible to buy both types, it was common to see that LCDs two or three times the price of a CRT looked worse than the CRT. The cheap ones really looked crap. Shops stopped setting up side by side comparisons, because even the untrained eye could see the difference. To get what I will accept as a decent picture, on an LCD, I'd have to pay three times as much as what I consider acceptable. It's the "Emperor's new clothes" all over again. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. I have this counter comment. I use a NEC Multisync e1100, and the only advantage I see offered by an LCD monitor is the width. To have a LCD monitor that gives me a full 11inch vertical letter size or A4 size as 1-1 on the screen puts the LCD monitor out of my budget range. I can purchase great quality (exchange) CRT monitor from computer shops for about $50 to $60. (I can buy a used P4 working system for the same price). The CRT monitor I have can provide fine hue adjustment, and very close color match to my laser printer output. I cannot say the same for the LCD monitors that I have used. It also has very fast response time, but my use is not for gaming, so I don't care. The negative side of CRT is the big weight and footprint. Leslie |
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