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What's Better for your eyes? CRT or LCD Screen?
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Any thoughts?
I've got a 19 inch monitor I can hook up to my 5 year old laptop and get 1024 by 768 with 16k colours and 85 Hz
of I can connect a 17 inch LCD with 24 bit colour and at 60 Hz
size wisw the CRT's screen is only actually half an inch bigger and it's a Sony trinitron, but lately my eyes have been feeling tired so wondering if a switch to an LCD would help?
I've got a 19 inch monitor I can hook up to my 5 year old laptop and get 1024 by 768 with 16k colours and 85 Hz
of I can connect a 17 inch LCD with 24 bit colour and at 60 Hz
size wisw the CRT's screen is only actually half an inch bigger and it's a Sony trinitron, but lately my eyes have been feeling tired so wondering if a switch to an LCD would help?
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hmm i don't find i sit any closer than i did on CRT?
The refreshrate differences aren't really noticeable unless ure playing a game, and then u wont notice it unless ure actively trying to..
Oh by the way 17" LCD gives a better picture image/res/def etc... than a 19"CRT. and 19LCD to a 21CRT and so on
I'd never even heard of SED but ..
According to this it should be the same sort of picture as a CRT just a lot flatter box
http://www.canon.com/technology/display/
If you can get a CRT quality picture into something as flat as that it should be excellent for the next generation of Televisions.
I thought that the next one up from LCD, will be OLED, not SED.
Damn there's new display technologies coming out all the time not heard of OLED's either
http://www.universaldisplay.com/tech.htm
BTW had my 17 inch Samsung 710N LCD Screen for a few days now and getting quite used to it.
I think it might be a case that the 19 inch Trintron CRT was better for grahics but text work like emails, word, etc I think might be better suited to the LCD.
Only thing I'm wondering is how much better it might look if it was equipted with a DVI socket and if I had a DVI output on my PC (which I don't)
I was wondering if the quality of VGA cable made much difference with the LCD, but it doesn't seem to.
It came with a very thin cable and I tried my own which is very thick, better shielded and has chockes on both end, but appears the same really.
I know good quality cables can make a huge difference on CRT's, had this problem years ago when the text on my old CRT appeared slightly blurred and had a ghost image and a quality cable sorted that out.