LCD Recommendation

[yosuke188]

Go with Dell, the 19 inch or 20.1 inch. Great price, good quality (IMO).

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: JPS35
if the native resolution is more than 800x600, which they generally are, reading, icons, etc. becomes waaaaaaaaay to small for my eyes.

given that my wife and I do a lot of databases, excel, and other related business adventures with it, it (native resolutions of large LCD's), can create an eye strain.

Any suggestions?

I suggest that people actually READ your comments, instead of tossing out whatever LCD happens to be big or on sale at the time.
I still say, go with a quality CRT. :laugh: But I actually read what your requirements are... 😛

 

[lamere]

I second the CRT - can't beat the image quality and i'll gladly sacrifice the weight and space issues. There's just no LCD's out right now that can beat them. But that's just me.....
If you REALLY want a good gaming/image quality LCD, prepare to pay some big $$

 

[JPS35]

"Uhh, I don't think you noticed the part in the LCD guide where it says "problem LCDs: 960BF." Don't get the 960BF, RTC/Overshoot errors are through the roof. "

You are correct; I mistyped the one I was thinking about. I was actually looking at the Samsung 204B (any thoughts on this...decent rebate from Newegg of the pixels are ok).

I agree with the CRT recommendation, generally, but placing a large screen TV on the desk doesn't always work out too well (DAMN!).

Maybe I am overthinking this some, as I have had the same CRT monitor for years and am just used to that. But, man, to spend that kind of money on a monitor and not be happy with it sucks!

 

[xtknight]

The Samsung 204B is OK but the viewing angles are pretty weak. The Samsung 205BW is pretty decent.

 

[lamere]

If you're used to a CRT, it's going to be hard to adapt to an LCD. I still can't do it as they lack depth and color accuracy. Some people can do it, but are those that are thinking save space over pic quality, or the easily impressed. I tried the best monitor under a grand, the NEC 20WMGX2 and took it back. Don't get me wrong, it was a really nice LCD, but not worth almost the $700 I paid for it. The monitor in my sig just smokes it in every dept. but it's serious overkill for what you're looking for, even if you were looking at a CRT. On top of that, it was $190, and will be around long after these other LCD's burn out.
My 0.02c

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Well once you go to LCD you can't come back. The eye strain reduction is just awesome. People talk about ahigh quality CRT, but you should just go for a high quality LCd like a Viewsonic VP930b.

There are people here taht aren't satisfied, and these are the same people going for the Samsung 930B, Viewsonic VX924, Hyundai L90D because they just want insanely fast resposne times, and yo ukn ow what? You're going to get crappy image quality..

 

[Blain]

The guy wants to use an LCD below it's native resolution!
Are you people getting that point? :shocked:
NO LCD running a non-native resolution is going to have good image quality... NONE!

Only a CRT will give him and his wife the resolution options they want (with good image quality).