Quake3World

It seems like the industry is coming up with new and creative ways to advertise the responce time for LCD monitors. They are now using the "gray to gray" and "black to white" scale, instead of the usuall "black to white to black". After a little research into this, it looks like a "gray to gray" responce time should be multiplied by 3 or 4 to get the true "ms" rating and "black to white" should by multiplied by 2. If anyone else has more information on this, I'd be interested to see it. I know I've seen several posts here about people interested in buying an LCD monitor and thought I would give them a heads-up.

Buyer beware..

Sounds like good advice. Anyone else?

Kracus wrote:Sounds like good advice. Anyone else?

Yes, dont listen to people who say "always use a condom".

I've had the same one on for 7 months now and its starting to itch like mad.

o'dium wrote:

Kracus wrote:Sounds like good advice. Anyone else?

Yes, dont listen to people who say "always use a condom".

I've had the same one on for 7 months now and its starting to itch like mad.

I came to the conclusion that I just can't use an LCD monitor. I took a couple of pretty nice ones home to try out, and they both where disappointing. One of them was a really nice $900 viewsonic. I ended up ordering a CRT 24" 16:10 widescreen for half the price of a decent LCD but more than twice the image quality. 1920x1200 at 85hz makes me happy.

Pooinyourmouth wrote:I came to the conclusion that I just can't use an LCD monitor. I took a couple of pretty nice ones home to try out, and they both where disappointing. One of them was a really nice $900 viewsonic. I ended up ordering a CRT 24" 16:10 widescreen for half the price of a decent LCD but more than twice the image quality. 1920x1200 at 85hz makes me happy.

Only problem is it probably weighs about 150 pounds and uses four times as much electricity.

I only had to lift it once, and I went from a 19"CRT to a 24" so I don't think I'll see to much of a difference in my power bill.

When it comes to my eyes, I'll gladly pay the extra per month on the power bill.

gramps you should have researched your new purchase properly

Pooinyourmouth wrote:When it comes to my eyes, I'll gladly pay the extra per month on the power bill.

I'd say TFTs are better for your eyes, since they don't flicker (even at 80+hz, CRTs are still flickering)

Foo wrote:

Pooinyourmouth wrote:When it comes to my eyes, I'll gladly pay the extra per month on the power bill.

I'd say TFTs are better for your eyes, since they don't flicker (even at 80+hz, CRTs are still flickering)

It wasn't the flicker I was worried about though, it was more about the resolution and the amount of contrast I get. Besides I can go up to 120hz but I can't see any difference past 85hz so that's where I left it. I can see flicker below 85hz though and that kills me for sure.

Pooinyourmouth wrote:

Foo wrote:

Pooinyourmouth wrote:When it comes to my eyes, I'll gladly pay the extra per month on the power bill.

I'd say TFTs are better for your eyes, since they don't flicker (even at 80+hz, CRTs are still flickering)

It wasn't the flicker I was worried about though, it was more about the resolution and the amount of contrast I get. Besides I can go up to 120hz but I can't see any difference past 85hz so that's where I left it. I can see flicker below 85hz though and that kills me for sure.

Run 120 for a while and I bet you will notice a difference. For the longest time I never saw a difference between 60 and 85 until I used it day-to-day.

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:gramps you should have researched your new purchase properly

You simply refuse to contribute in any of my threads. Why? Are you that hung up on me that you can't?

Get over me already.

Thanks..

:icon14:

I would-call that; punctiation. experimental,

OLED !!!11one

MKJ wrote:OLED !!!11one

¿

Ѻ Ü