Lcd monitors bad for your eyes?

[neutralizer]

All I know is that I love my 2005fpw over my 22" CRT. Even though, it's smaller, it just seems easier on the eyes. What really pisses me off when I go to the computer lab and there are CRT at 60 Hz... I get a little dizzy looking at it.

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
All I know is that I love my 2005fpw over my 19" CRT. Even though, it's smaller, it just seems easier on the eyes. What really pisses me off when I go to the computer lab and there are CRT at 60 Hz... I get a little dizzy looking at it.

QFT, except for the bolded part.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: astroidea

Originally posted by: antillean

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Yes, that's because they look like shit. Your eyes would rather produce cataracts protein than continue exposing themselves to poor contrast ratios and no color fidelity to speak of. Get yourself a good CRT and you should be fine.

CRT = fuzzy with age = eyestrain. I'll take my discreet pixels kthx! And color fidelity is fine with a S-PVA screen. As for contrast ratios, who sits there looking at a dark scene complaining about how blacks aren't black

Try playing a game like DOOM or STALKER on an LCD, and then a CRT, and you'll never want to play games on an LCD again.

I play them on my 47" 1080p LCD. How's it look on your 47" CRT? 😛

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Mallarddrake44
she said her doctor told her this information. i was just wondering if it had any truth behind it, because she is known to tell a lie every now and then!

Women lie as a matter of course.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Only 19" widescreen LCD's have this issue.


EDIT: You're fscked.

 

[ForumMaster]

actually, it's the other way around. CRT's fire particles directly at your eyes. LCD's on the other hand, have a backlight and each pixel block light and lets light of a certain color pass through meaning you get a picture from the photons rather then actual particles coming to your eyes.

anyway, modern LCD's can beat a CRT in almost all catagories. there's 120hz LCD TV's now, there's LCD's with insane response time as well as insane contrast ratios.

 

[effee]

LCDs bad, CRTS bad....what do we use?

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
actually, it's the other way around. CRT's fire particles directly at your eyes. LCD's on the other hand, have a backlight and each pixel block light and lets light of a certain color pass through meaning you get a picture from the photons rather then actual particles coming to your eyes.

anyway, modern LCD's can beat a CRT in almost all catagories. there's 120hz LCD TV's now, there's LCD's with insane response time as well as insane contrast ratios.

I think you just heard the term electron beam and got scared by it.
CRT fires light particles(photons) to your eyes in the same way an LCD, or any other source of light fires photons to your light.
The electron gun is only there to heat up the phosphor elements on the glass portion of the CRT screen. It isn't beaming electrons directly to your eyeballs.

There's still no modern LCD that has the deep black levels nor the contrast of a CRT.
Much closer than before? Yes. Match? No.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Well, I know the amount of time I spend on computers, between work and otherwise, is certainly unhealthy in many ways, including my vision.

Reading text at 1600x1200 for so long has indeed had an impact on me!

 

[ForumMaster]

Originally posted by: astroidea

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
actually, it's the other way around. CRT's fire particles directly at your eyes. LCD's on the other hand, have a backlight and each pixel block light and lets light of a certain color pass through meaning you get a picture from the photons rather then actual particles coming to your eyes.

anyway, modern LCD's can beat a CRT in almost all catagories. there's 120hz LCD TV's now, there's LCD's with insane response time as well as insane contrast ratios.

I think you just heard the term electron beam and got scared by it.
CRT fires light particles(photons) to your eyes in the same way an LCD, or any other source of light fires photons to your light.
The electron gun is only there to heat up the phosphor elements on the glass portion of the CRT screen. It isn't beaming electrons directly to your eyeballs.

There's still no modern LCD that has the deep black levels nor the contrast of a CRT.
Much closer than before? Yes. Match? No.

alright maybe. i just recall back in the day, having these filters that we'd put over crt's cause it was better for the eyes.

well then you can't deny (not implying that you did) that LCD's are better for the eyes cause they don't flicker. and why can't LED backlit LCD's match the black levels of a CRT? in an LED backilt LCD, the areas where black is needed simply isn't lit. there is no possible darker image. so why can't LCD's compete with CRT's?

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Yes, that's because they look like shit. Your eyes would rather produce cataracts protein than continue exposing themselves to poor contrast ratios and no color fidelity to speak of. Get yourself a good CRT and you should be fine.

I have yet to see a CRT that produces a clearer picture than my lcd.

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: redly1

Originally posted by: Mallarddrake44
i heard from a not very good source that Lcd monitors cause cataracts? anybody have any comment or know any truth to this?

Hmmm, I see medical marijuana in my future

If you have cataracts, I don't think you'll see it at all.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: redly1

Originally posted by: Mallarddrake44
i heard from a not very good source that Lcd monitors cause cataracts? anybody have any comment or know any truth to this?

Hmmm, I see medical marijuana in my future

If you have cataracts, I don't think you'll see it at all.

Cataracts are easily fixed by modern medical science with lens replacement surgery. My dad had it done not long ago. It was quick and easy (local only and outpatient), relatively inexpensive, and he says his vision is better now than when he was young.

 

[RollWave]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Quasmo

Originally posted by: redly1

Originally posted by: Mallarddrake44
i heard from a not very good source that Lcd monitors cause cataracts? anybody have any comment or know any truth to this?

Hmmm, I see medical marijuana in my future

If you have cataracts, I don't think you'll see it at all.

Cataracts are easily fixed by modern medical science with lens replacement surgery. My dad had it done not long ago. It was quick and easy (local only and outpatient), relatively inexpensive, and he says his vision is better now than when he was young.

mj only helps with glaucoma, not cataracts. Cataracts are when your lens gets cloudy...now you can get a replacement but it makes you farsighted.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: astroidea

Originally posted by: antillean

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Yes, that's because they look like shit. Your eyes would rather produce cataracts protein than continue exposing themselves to poor contrast ratios and no color fidelity to speak of. Get yourself a good CRT and you should be fine.

CRT = fuzzy with age = eyestrain. I'll take my discreet pixels kthx! And color fidelity is fine with a S-PVA screen. As for contrast ratios, who sits there looking at a dark scene complaining about how blacks aren't black

Try playing a game like DOOM or STALKER on an LCD, and then a CRT, and you'll never want to play games on an LCD again.

I play them on my 47" 1080p LCD. How's it look on your 47" CRT? 😛

Stuff looks great on my 36" Wega CRT HDTV!
Just don't ask me to move it. Anywhere... Ever...
(Ok so it isn't quite as big... 🙁)

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: astroidea

Originally posted by: antillean

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Yes, that's because they look like shit. Your eyes would rather produce cataracts protein than continue exposing themselves to poor contrast ratios and no color fidelity to speak of. Get yourself a good CRT and you should be fine.

CRT = fuzzy with age = eyestrain. I'll take my discreet pixels kthx! And color fidelity is fine with a S-PVA screen. As for contrast ratios, who sits there looking at a dark scene complaining about how blacks aren't black

Try playing a game like DOOM or STALKER on an LCD, and then a CRT, and you'll never want to play games on an LCD again.

Nope, I'm pretty happy playing both on my widescreen 24" LCD. I hate CRTs now when I'm 'forced' to use them at school and occasionally at work. Nice that I didn't need a forklift to carry it on my desk too...