Forum: Photography


Subject: Monitors LCD or CRT?!?!?

L8RDAZE opened this issue on Mar 14, 2006 ยท 35 posts


3DGuy posted Wed, 15 March 2006 at 4:56 PM

"Perhaps you have not been keeping pace with developments - top LCD displays outperform CRT in all aspects nowdays."

Ahem, yeah, that isn't your typical TFT panel. I have been keeping up with developments. That one has a LED background to give it more dynamics. The panels you buy in the store use basically tubelights to illuminate the background which has 2 distinct disadvantages:

  1. it lacks range, i.e. it only has a limited range of colour in it.
  2. it's virtually impossible to produce pure blacks because the light is always on.

Now the dr37p solves both problems by using LEDs that do cover the complete colour range and can be turned off. But again, this isn't something you just buy unless you're willing to shell out a shitload of cash (8000-10000 US$).

So unless you're willing to spend 10 grand, I stand by my statement that a decent CRT outperforms TFT screens (in the normal affordable consumer market). So best to check what you're actually linking to trying to make other look silly.

Message edited on: 03/15/2006 16:57

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