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Xare   11-13-2006 at 10:57:36 AM
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Hi from spain :P
I want to buy a LCD monitor, i was looking for a 19" panoramic monitor with nice color representation, and good features.. it would be used for gaming and graphic desing (not in this order).
I was thinking in the Samsung SM 940 BW I searched in Tomshardware.com for technical informatios like i founded in the link http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/0 [...] ollection/ for can make a good comparison with other monitors.
Someone can help me?
THANKS!

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tiglatfalasar   12-18-2006 at 09:28:38 PM
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I've bought a ViewSonic VP930 to replace my old Sony CPD-E200E (CRT). Big error !!! I agree now that if you want some quality in your games do not ever buy an LCD. From color's quality to fluidity of games ( I play especially World of Warcraft) everything is poor for ViewSonic VP930.
And what's the most annoying ...you can't tune gamma factor by OSD. If I made it by graphic-board soft (Catalyst Control Center - Sapphire Radeon X800XL) this setting doesn't last after getting out of games...and I have to launch every time the soft above mentioned. I have many complaints but I stop here. And I don't have the possibility to return that LCD shit. So I'll keep it like a sample of my stupidity... buying a monitor based only on reviews... It's true that I couldn't see it before buying because I ordered it from another country (I'm from Romania).

CRT rules

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chrysalis   03-20-2007 at 02:38:53 AM
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This growth in popularity of LCD's over CRT's is something I've seen before with other technologies, and it's always surprised me that so many people are willing to give up quality for convenience. Same thing happened with digital stereo after decades of engineering technology had made analog stereo so sweet, people took the hit in quality to switch to digital. VHS won out over BETA, but you still won't find many VHS vcrs in any television production studio; they stayed with quality.

Sure, I understand that there are pluses to LCDs, but this is something that some of us look at for hours at a time, day after day, year after year. I'm amazed that quality is not only not the primary factor, but less of a factor than deskspace. I mean really, just how often do you move your monitor anyway?

So I'm off to pick out a beautiful, cost effective CRT before visual quality becomes a historical footnote...

PS. I'm not being critical towards those of you who do buy LCDs. I have one myself for word processing. I just don't understand why the demand is SO biased towards lower quality...



I can see why offices do it since the electricity savings would add up, I think for consumers its a fashion thing, lcds are stylish and of course light and simply because they newer people just assume they better all round and they taken off. Good for the vendors as they take less space in the warehouse I would also expect lower manufacturing costs as well.

The LCD tv takeover amazes me much more tho, take HDTV eg. Watch HDTV on a LCD tv and then watch SDTV on a CRT tv and see if you can see the difference, LCDs are a considerable downgrade for tv use and HDTV makes them almost on par again but of course you still have the latency, colours and viewing angle problems after.

For my pc I have found the VP930 which I think is very good but remember most people arent going out buying MVA/IPS screens the bulk of monitors on ebuyer etc. are TN panel based screens and quality will be way below what we have on CRTs.

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