LCD better for your eyes than CRT??

[MWink]

I love LCD's but they really screw up my eyes. I can stare at a monitor for hours and hours on end at any refresh rate and not have a problem. If I spend even an hour (possibly less) looking at an LCD my vision gets messed up. I think it has to do with the brightness because if I turn the brightness on my monitor down really low it also causes problems.

 

[SharkB8]

MWink-

I agree 100%, LCD's screw with my eyes also. I bought a Viewsonic model for home and it hurt both mine and my wife's eyes after prolonged periods. I ended up selling it and going back to my CRT. It could have been the model but I hated it.

 

[Bleep]

I think the problem with lcd monitors is you have to be carefull when you buy one. Pixil speed is most important. I bought a cheap lcd and when scroling the letters blur and my mind would tell my eyes to read the writing and the eyestrain was really bad. With a new one with fast pixels it is no problem, small fonts and lcd screens do not seem to get along.
Bleep

 

[Elledan]

<< I think the problem with lcd monitors is you have to be carefull when you buy one. Pixil speed is most important. I bought a cheap lcd and when scroling the letters blur and my mind would tell my eyes to read the writing and the eyestrain was really bad. With a new one with fast pixels it is no problem, small fonts and lcd screens do not seem to get along.
Bleep >>

It's also important to realize that LCD-screens have one native resolution (usually 1024x786 for a 15-17" one). Changing the resolution will, especially with cheaper screens, lead to a loss of image-quality.

It's therefore important to stay away from 'cheap' LCD-screens and to go for the more expensive high-quality screens.

 

[Mustanggt]

Well I set my volts down to 1.0 from 0.7 on my monitor it really helps alot the picture looks better at higher volts but still looks good lower.

 

[Jeff7]

Set the refresh rate higher. Anything below 75Hz gives me a headache within minutes. I'm on a 17" CRT now, 800x600 at 100Hz. I do games at higher resolutions, and only use 85Hz then.

 

[BuckNaked]

I just dug up this thread because it seems to be indirectly related to a problem I am having... I had purchased a Mitsubishi DP900U about 2 years ago, and it was a wonderful monitor that I could look at continuosly for long periods of time with little or no eye fatigue... The monitor developed a problem of some sort that would cause the screen to appear to flicker as if it had momentarily lost power, similar to what the screen does when you 'degaus' it. It would do it sometimes 4-5 times in a row in rapid succession. It became quite irratating and wanted to replace the monitor before it might die on me, and while it was still under warranty.

I contacted NEC-Mitsubishi about the problem and they sent me a new monitor. This was a refurbished DP900U, but it was horribly unsharp. It was causing me to have headaches and eyestrain within a few minutes of using it. I called them back and told them of the problem. They sent me yet another refurbished DP900U. I continued to use the original monitor with out any problems for another week, and finally got around to setting up the 2nd refurb'ed monitor. On initial inspection, everything looked good with the second monitor, and boxed up my original monitor and sent it back. But after using this monitor for a couple of days, I realized that I was again experiencing the headaches and eyestrain again, albeit after using the monitor for a longer length of time.

I called NEC-Mitsubishi again today and they agreed to send me a new DP920 instead. I don't know if there is a real point to this, but I have come to the conclusion that there is probably a real difference between individual monitors, even within the same model numbers and specs. I wish there was some measure of sharpness or test that could kind of standardize or quantify differences between monitors and aid in setting them up correctly.

If you have a good monitor and everything (Refresh rates, resoloution, etc) is setup correctly, and you are still having bouts of eyestrain, I would be taking a hard look at the monitor and see how sharp the text really is. It may not be as sharp as it should be....

Dave