Best LCD and a CRT problem.

[Circlenaut]

What's the best 17" or 18.1" LCD flat panel out there for gaming and is there a way to get rid of a scratch on a CRT monitor front glass?

 

[Circlenaut]

anyone?

 

[Circlenaut]

?

 

[Doomguy]

CRTs are still a great deal better than LCDs for gaming. CRTs have better colors, no problems with running non-native resolutions, no pixel response time issues, and are cheaper.

 

[Circlenaut]

As for the scratch? What should I do It's mildly annoying

 

[phlip]

the best 18.1" LCD out there would probably be the Samsung 181T, from all the reviews I have seen (plus I've seen the monitor in a shop and had it demoed) its very nice, no visible ghosting at all (where the image blurs from a low pixel resonse time), seemed perfectly adequate for gaming to me.

not sure about a 17" though, either illymia or samsung would be your best bet.

 

[VBboy]

Samsung 181T had very positive reviews. Having said that, no LCD at this point is good enough for gaming or professional desktop publishing/imaging. I am returning the Dell 2000FP (20") LCD because, as all LCDs out there (except for the Sharp $1300 model) they have 8-bit gamma, meaning you can only get 2^8 = 256 shades of red, green, or blue. So color gradients look banded and lack smooth color transitions. The worst problem was the NON-black "black".

 

[Circlenaut]

What About my scatched CRT?

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Auto dealers can fill in chipped windshields with some glass fixing solution and then buff it out. You can TRY looking into something similar, but if you have an anti-reflective coating I'd say you can forget it.

 

[Circlenaut]

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
Auto dealers can fill in chipped windshields with some glass fixing solution and then buff it out. You can TRY looking into something similar, but if you have an anti-reflective coating I'd say you can forget it.

Why do you say that? I think I have anti-reflective coating.

 

[MIGhunter]

I don't know about monitors but I do a lot of car audio stuff and we use very fine sandpaper to take scratches out of plexiglass, Acrylic and normal glass. You might try it. But I wouldn't unless it really annoys you and you can afford to get a new monitor if it doesn't work. Also, by fine I mean like 400 grit.

 

[boyRacer]

400 grit is fine? :Q

 

[Entropy007]

For sanding glass you may want to step up to really fine like this stuff.

MicroMesh

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Originally posted by: shadowmind359

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
Auto dealers can fill in chipped windshields with some glass fixing solution and then buff it out. You can TRY looking into something similar, but if you have an anti-reflective coating I'd say you can forget it.

Why do you say that? I think I have anti-reflective coating.

Because you would probably buff/sand the anti-reflective coating right off.

 

[Coherence]

The Sharp LL-T1820 is the best 18" LCD on the market, with 10-bit gamma correction, good pixel response (25ms), and "zero-voltage black" which virtually elminates the dead pixel problem. Before that came out, though, Samsung was indeed my first choice. List is $1,299 on the Sharp, but I paid $1,229 on the street. If you can't afford the Sharp, I'd certainly recommend Samsung.

Yes, LCD's aren't quite as good as CRT's for powergamers, but the differences haven't bothered me at all. In fact, the lower power consumption, lower heat generation, smaller footprint, faster startup, etc, more than outweigh the slight blurring from scaling to non-native resolutions, or the blurring of moving objects (due to pixel fall). Heck, I actually think the blurring gives moving objects a more realistic effect.

Besides, that large thin screen on my desk looks way sexier than any CRT will. 😉

 

[senior guy]

Originally posted by: VBboy
Samsung 181T had very positive reviews. Having said that, no LCD at this point is good enough for gaming or professional desktop publishing/imaging. I am returning the Dell 2000FP (20") LCD because, as all LCDs out there (except for the Sharp $1300 model) they have 8-bit gamma, meaning you can only get 2^8 = 256 shades of red, green, or blue. So color gradients look banded and lack smooth color transitions. The worst problem was the NON-black "black".

Yeah, I do a lot of image-editing and a week ago I decided to upgrade my 17" Viewsonic (CRT). I thought how cool it would be to have an 18" LCD as it would take up a lot less desk real estate than a 19" CRT. So I decided to shoot for the moon and bought a Viewsonic VG800 for about $900 (18.1" LCD with 600:1 contrast ratio). After living with it for a week, I found that it just couldn't get it done for serious image-editing (same probs you found), and I returned it just yesterday. Now I guess I'll have to settle for a really good 19" CRT monitor (I don't have the desk-space for a 21")... Any recommendations?