are lcd monitors worth looking into yet?

[dpopiz]

>>>this thread has a lot of questions. please only reply if you have some good factual info on them. thanks!

I'm still using a 17" crt, but I was starting to think about getting a 19" crt because my eyes are gradually going bad and I now have practically put my eyes on the screen to read text. this couldn't be good for my health.
keep in mind I have a very nice, sharp one as far as crt's go (samsung 700IFT, paid >$300 for it)

are lcd's to the point now where I could get a good 17" for about the same $$$ as a nice sharp 19" crt?

> one thing I'm definitely wondering about is if the viewing angle is very good on them now....because I hate that effect you see on most of them where the image is sort of unsolid looking because your eyes see a slightly different brightness due to the viewing angle problem. also, I know this gets worse the closer your eyes are to the screen, and I'm probably going to be putting my eyes pretty close to it.

other than that I want:
accurate colors because I do a bit of graphics (I know lcd's are notoriously bad at this. should I consider getting lcd for text, but keeping an extra crt for graphics?)
-and-
a decent rise/fall time. (I don't know what kind of numbers I need. I don't play games, but my friend had an old gateway lcd and it was really annoying because whenever you scroll, the text would smear up the screen. I just want to avoid that.)

 

[bjc112]

are lcd's to the point now where I could get a good 17" for about the same $$$ as a nice sharp 19" crt?

Not even close..

You can grab a nice Viewsonic or Samsung for about $250....

If you are even a casual gamer you are going to want something <25ms more like 16ms response time...

Your looking at about 500-600...

 

[Johnbear007]

If your eyes are going bad, I think it would be better the get a 19inch or 21 inch crt, and make sure that it can run very good refresh rates. Everythign will be larger for you , and high refresh rates will be easy on the eyes

 

[vegetation]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007
If your eyes are going bad, I think it would be better the get a 19inch or 21 inch crt, and make sure that it can run very good refresh rates. Everythign will be larger for you , and high refresh rates will be easy on the eyes

I disagree. If your eyes are going bad and you do a lot of text reading then you should seriously look into an LCD monitor. My eyes are really bad and ever since switching to LCD, I cannot bear looking at any crt for an extended length of time, even if it's set to refresh at 100hz.

 

[thraxes]

They are expensive but if you can afford a good one, it is worth every dime.

 

[Vertigo-1]

Originally posted by: bjc112

are lcd's to the point now where I could get a good 17" for about the same $$$ as a nice sharp 19" crt?

Not even close..

You can grab a nice Viewsonic or Samsung for about $250....

If you are even a casual gamer you are going to want something <25ms more like 16ms response time...

Your looking at about 500-600...

I've been wondering about this same issue myself. But on a different note, would there be any ghosting problems when running a gaming console through a TV tuner card to an LCD? If I remember, anything displayed on a TV has to be tuned to 60Hz, so maybe not?

 

[egale]

The current crop of LCDs are very very good. A 17" LCD will be just a tad smaller than a 19" crt. They are also easier on your eyes and are bright and crisp. The best part is that they take up a heck of a lot less desk space than a 19 or 21 inch crt and you don't need a moving crew to move the thing around.

Make sure though that the LCD has a DVI connector as well as your video card. You lose picture quality and have a tendency towards ghosting when you use a standard analog vga connection.

 

[araczynski]

i've been using a mitsubishi 1010e 21" crt for the last 5 years, and a few months ago i decided to take one of the 18" dell lcd's home to try out with BF1942, graphics were very nice and i sharp, but somehow it still didn't look right when things were moving fast.

in normal windows stuff it was very good, but in games i think they still have a way to go. to me the gaming performance means more then how pretty windows pop up.

 

[beatle]

I feel that my eyes are starting to fade also (and I'm 23). At work I use a 17" POS Micron LCD and a 17" Samsung 170n LCD. Both are analog, but I can stare at them all day and never have to blink my eyes to focus things. My 2 19" CRTs (see Barton in sig) strain my eyes after only an hour or so.

I'm contemplating the same thing. I really crave screen real estate, but I'd want at least an 18 or 19" LCD and they're just too darn expensive! I'd keep my 19" CRT as the primary display for games and use the LCD for everything else.