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[bentwookie]

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[HokieESM]

bentwookie: i encourage you to find a place that has both. A local school, library, etc. I have a Dell 17" LCD and a Sony G420P CRT (19" Trinitron). For pure graphics work, there is no comparison--the CRT's colors are better, the image is sharper. And it runs at 1600x1200 (which is nice for photochop).

BUT, I must say, the LCD is GREAT for text and/or browsing--less eye-strain and clean, crisp text. Ideally, owning both is great--I found that out recently. But if I had to go with one, it would be a CRT.

Oh, and the Dell you're talking about--the 1800FP--is a good LCD (and they're selling at a good price right now.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

LCD is no good for design. The pixels are not square. If you measure a 1280x1024 LCD you will find that its actual ratio is 4:3. A 1024x768 LCD is not 4:3.

 

[bentwookie]

thanks for the info, guess I will keep my crts but man they get warm...I can heat my room with them.

 

[halik]

i have 2000fp and have no problems doing graphics work on it - 1600x1200 and way more contrast than crt could ever have.
Also the kid down the hall (art major) has 22in apple lcd and it works awesome.

Any high end lcd will do good for graphics, the pixels ARE square on mine (4/3...1600/4 = 400 1200/3 = 400)

 

[notfred]

LCD

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
LCD is no good for design. The pixels are not square. If you measure a 1280x1024 LCD you will find that its actual ratio is 4:3. A 1024x768 LCD is not 4:3.

I jsut measured both of the ones I have here (Dell 1900FP and apple iBook 12.1" display) and they both are the correct aspect ratio.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
LCD is no good for design. The pixels are not square. If you measure a 1280x1024 LCD you will find that its actual ratio is 4:3. A 1024x768 LCD is not 4:3.

I jsut measured both of the ones I have here (Dell 1900FP and apple iBook 12.1" display) and they both are the correct aspect ratio.

The picture on 18's and 19's is 5:4 whoever said it was sqaure? And on 15's and 17's it's 4:3 just like on CRTs. Never seen sqaure anything.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Carbonyl

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
LCD is no good for design. The pixels are not square. If you measure a 1280x1024 LCD you will find that its actual ratio is 4:3. A 1024x768 LCD is not 4:3.

I jsut measured both of the ones I have here (Dell 1900FP and apple iBook 12.1" display) and they both are the correct aspect ratio.

The picture on 18's and 19's is 5:4 whoever said it was sqaure? And on 15's and 17's it's 4:3 just like on CRTs. Never seen sqaure anything.

Who said anything about displays being square? The iBook runs 1024x768 and is 4:3, the 1900FP runs 1280x1024 and is 5:4. That amkes each pixel square, not the whole display.

 

[CraigRT]

I prefer the picture on CRT, (especially for gaming) but I like how easy to look at LCD is.

 

[Lore]

I will never go back to a CRT if I can help it. I've been using a 21" FD Trinitron monitor since 2000 @ 1600x1200 and when I switched to the Dell 2000FP I noticed a HUGE difference in contrast, crispness, and clarity of my display. Now when I look at my CRT the display is far blurrier than I can handle anymore.

I should mention that I do a lot of Presentation design (photoshop + powerpoint) and web design work.

 

[Anubis]

CRT is definitly better if you are going to be doing 3d work and a lot of stuff with PS