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I feel like I am the only one that hasn't gone LCD, Reassure Me.

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I'm just going to skip LCDs and wait on something better. I have yet to see any LCD that can top a properly calibrated CRT.
 
Two CRTs at home and one at work. My boss has an LCD but it looks awful. Then again it's a no name. I wouldn't mind having one of the higher end Dell LCDs but I have better things to spend my money on right now.
 
#1 reason you see so many people hyping up their LCDs: They don't want to admit, even to themselves, that that fad purchase they made was a waste of money.
 
At home I have a 19" Samsung CRT, but I work I use a Samsung 240T 24" LCD.

I would love to have an LCD at the house, but I'll wait until the price drops...
 
I was highly disappointed in my three screen lcd set-up until I went DVI. They?re all running DVI now and as crisp and clear and perfect as can be.
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I would love an LCD but cannot afford one. I will continue to use CRT's unitl LCD's are priced the same. At the office I have a couple of LCD's wall mounted in the server room and they are very nice. At home I have a Trinitron 19" CRT.
 
another advantage of using LCD:

with lcd u can put the monitor a little bit backwards, so ur "secretion" doesnt hit the monitor screen.. 😀
 
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Max. Horizontal Resolution 1280 pixels
Max. Vertical Resolution 1024 pixels
Horizontal Size 37 cm
Vertical Size 27 cm
Viewable Diagonal Size 18.03 inch
Manufacture Year 2000
Manufacture Week 31
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"19 inch" no name CRT
 
Originally posted by: z0mb13
another advantage of using LCD:

with lcd u can put the monitor a little bit backwards, so ur "secretion" doesnt hit the monitor screen.. 😀
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ah, but once it gets on the screen, it's a delicate job to clean. With a CRT all I need is a monitor wipe.
 
Originally posted by: yoda291
Originally posted by: z0mb13
another advantage of using LCD:

with lcd u can put the monitor a little bit backwards, so ur "secretion" doesnt hit the monitor screen.. 😀
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ah, but once it gets on the screen, it's a delicate job to clean. With a CRT all I need is a monitor wipe.
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I have a LCD and I always cleaned it using a damp cloth...

 
One of the reasons I swapped over to LCD's is waste heat, running 4 CRT's in the office threw a lot of BTU's into the room, live in Texas, so the added heat in the summertime was a problem.
 
<- using a G400 and an F520 @ work.. sorry, the F520's 0.22mm Dot Pitch is still the clearest. CRT > LCD. 😉
 
Totally have my 19" NEC MultiSync FE991SB with a freaking scratch on the display. This behemoth is 50lbs. Good thing I don't have to carry it arround much.
 
Originally posted by: ed21x
From a non-technical, non-quantative standpoint, there's something about the LCD that just makes it so much better than a CRT. Better to the point where once you switch from CRT to LCD, you can't really go back, and its this sorta thing that people who don't have LCD's won't understand. After owning two MAG LCD's (15'' and 17''), whenever I go back to a friend's CRT, there's just this lack of smoothness and finesse by which the LCD displays the picture- a constant smooth transition of pixel rather than a cathode ray tube scanning at insane rates that just makes it so much easier on the eyes and the mind.
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So what you're saying is that the pixel blur is almost like motion blur. Since motion blur makes movies look smooth at lower fps, the fact that LCDs take longer than CRTs to update the whole screen doesn't really matter? "Oh look, its all ghosty so its better!"

I have a 21" Hitachi SuperScan 811 and I stare at it almost litteraly all day and I don't get any eye strain, plus I can play games at multiple resolutions (I have an old card right now so I play old games at high res and new games at medium res) with good image quality. And I saved lots of money so I can buy other stuff like new games and a video card to run them.
 
I use my 21-inch CRT for gaming only. For work and everything else I use my laptop because it's easier on my eyes. My work PC came with a 17-inch LCD. :heart:
 
Using a Samsung SyncMaster 900NF CRT here. I'm quite satisfied with this monitor.... have had it for like 3+ years now. I'm big into FPS games, and the "trails" described with LCD's on FPS games would keep me from getting one.
 

More LCD pluses:

I've got windows surrounding the room where I use my computer. Early morning with the sun coming in the window my CRT was unsuable. This thing is unfriken believable. No glare and bright as a heck.

I spend 1/2 my time screwing around playing computer games, most first person perspective of one sort or another. I can spin like a top for hours without any blur.

I've used it all from cr@py 14" black and white monitors, to zillion dollar high end workstation CRTs, for me nothing beats an LCD.

Unless you have some sort of freaky colormatching job or something that can only be done on a CRT I don't see the point of having a zillion pound desktop hogging behometh if you can have a LCD.

All this talk of LCDs got me to get off my but and find my DVI cable, which I had never tried on my home monitor. Kinda weird. On my Dell 1900FP fed my D800 at work the DVI input is tons better than my analog VGA cable. But on my home monitor (Planar PLX19) I'm not sure if I like the DVI cable. Almost too sharp, feels weird on the eyes.

 
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