Need help choosing a monitor for my mom

[sonz70]

So, my mom has had epilepsy for a few years now, and she also has arthritis. She is a stay at home mom, and goes out to help my lil bro with newspapers ect. So I went home for the weekend last week, and we were talking and she was telling me how much of a migraine she has, and she is only able to sit infront of the computer an hour before she gets a migraine and has to go lay down for a few hours.

They have a 21 inch CRT at the momment. Anyone have any ideas on what I can buy, get her, or a special kind of monitor that might prevent this? I was thinking one of those non-glare screens maybe? Anyone else have any other ideas?

 

[amdskip]

I would get them a large lcd with good response times. The dell 2005fpw I believe is a great model.

 

[loic2003]

Get an LCD: CRTs have to scan the entire image many times a second which is what causes the flickering. LCDs just change the pixels that need to be changed thus compeltely removing the flicker.

At least this is what I remember. I could be wrong....

 

[Steve]

LCD for sure. All pixels are lit all the time. No flicker.

 

[Ausm]

LCD for sure! I got a buddy who has epilepsy and that is all he can use.

Ausm

 

[NatePo717]

Originally posted by: amdskip
I would get them a large lcd with good response times. The dell 2005fpw I believe is a great model.

:thumbsup:

Something big.

 

[sonz70]

Ok, so the 2005fpw, what about the screen dimmer? or is that not needed with LCD's?

 

[Steve]

Probably not needed, and hard to find one that will fit. If it's on analog VGA connection, just use the monitor's brightness/contrast control buttons. If you're on DVI-D, use the same settings in the nVidia/ATI/whatever control panel.

 

[sonz70]

Cool, thanks guys

 

[Mo0o]

What about a medical grade LCD. I saw those on monitorsdirect (not sure if the site is still up). Maybe those are better quality than the common LCD

 

[skace]

Just a note, I hooked my 2005FPW up via DVI and when I turned it on it was very bright. The brightness was set at 100. I ended up bringing it down to 15. 10 May be good if brightness hurts her eyes? Epilepsy is affected by bright flickering lights right? I would also ensure that wherever you place the monitor is well light, I noticed this making a much larger difference with my LCD in place of my CRT. My CRT was so much darker than my LCD that I was always trying to darken my room. When I placed my LCD the light/dark contrast was massive and I had to spend a day repositioning my lamp / etc to provide ample light. Just thoughts.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: skace
Epilepsy is affected by bright flickering lights right?

LCDs don't flicker.

 

[Fraggable]

Originally posted by: loic2003
Get an LCD: CRTs have to scan the entire image many times a second which is what causes the flickering. LCDs just change the pixels that need to be changed thus compeltely removing the flicker.

At least this is what I remember. I could be wrong....

Technically LCDs only change the pixels that need to be changed, but realistically (at least in Windows) there's still a refresh rate associated with the display. That's how often the computer actually sends a signal to the display with the new image. In between, LCDs hold their color instead of dimming so there's no flicker.