The LCD you've been waiting for

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
How many of you have actually used an LCD? From some obvious hints of bias towards CRT (which is not necessarily a bad thing), I have to question the weight of your comments that you've really never used one.

If there aren't any benefits to LCDs, why are they even being made?

-SUO, 3 18" LCDs at home and at least one at work

There are benefits, but to me they are not significant.

It is the same as the SUV/ Pickup + car battle. You could buy one SUV or for the same amount of money buy a pickup for hauling and towing and a good car for driving to/from work. To me I'd rather have two vehicles with all the capabilities and yet good gas mileage. But other people want the glitz and glamour of the SUV and are willing to pay triple what it is worth. I feel the LCD is the same. It is the glitz and glamour of the computer world. It is smaller and lightweight but the vast majority of people don't carry the monitor around more than once in the monitor's lifetime and the majority of people have enough deskspace for a CRT. But the glitz of the LCD wins. An LCD just looks cooler.


Face it if you have an LCD at one set in stone resolution, games suck unless you can achieve that resolution. To me that matters a great deal. What if my video card cannot make playable games at that resolution? What if the game doesn't offer that resolution? You have trouble all the time with gaming. Not to mention ghosting (which is significantly better recently), and the worse viewing angles of LCDs. I'm just not paying double for a monitor with less resolution options!

Yes I have used LCDs many times, and I always dislike what I've seen. They have their benefits - like 3 18" monitors. But honestly how many people do that? Not many. Thus still no significant benefit over CRT (neglecting the coolness factor which I don't care about).

Your logic is flawed. A better comparison would be between your car and a hybrid/electric car. You pay slightly more for the LCD but use far less power, you don't have electrons shooting through your eyes, and it takes up less room which are the equivelants to fuel efficiency, less pollution, and less depletion of recourses.
Most monitors today can scale resolutions perfectly down to a considerably low level. If your game needs a lower resolution its time to stop playing pong. It is definately time to upgrade video cards if it can't push 1280x1024. Also it has a large viewing area which makes it about equal in price to a comparable quality CRT. It cost $611.
When you finish reading this check the prices on a major brand CRT with a 19" viewable area. I wonder what LCD you used many times. One of those KDS with a 50ms response time and a 200:1 resolution no doubt.

I did not buy my LCD because it looked cool. I got it because it takes up liitle space and I don't need Dramamine to use it for extended periods. Gaming is perfect (AIW9800PRO) with no ghosting at all.

Not to mention that those CRT's can heat a dam house. I love my microtek 19" LCD with a 20ms response time and contrast ration of 500:1. No ghosting in any games I have played. Including UT2K3, HL, Quake3 and so on. And I only paid $550 for it after rebates and coupons. All these people that say bad things about the LCD's are either clueless or they are using cheap LCD's with an analog input instead of the DVI. My LCD looks much better since I upgraded to a card with the DVI out.