"kony" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:13:09 GMT, "James Sweet"
wrote:


If you can't actually see it, does it matter if it exists?
I can play 50 FPS video or games running at over 50 FPS on a
19" LCD computer monitor and not see any problems except the
obvious lack of contrast (but with CRT I am spoiled in this
respect, having bought Diamondtron tube based monitors for
the last few I used myself before switching to primarily LCD
usage).


I sure can, maybe my eyes are just better than average, there's those
"golden ear" audiophools I always thought were nuts, but maybe some of
them
aren't as nutty as I thought. I've got a high end 20" flat panel on my
desk
at work, it looks really good, but still not as good as the 22" flat
Trinitron CRT I have at home. Geometry is flawless, but the picture
doesn't
look as smooth and clean as the CRT, it looks more "digital".


I did not write "some LCD", I wrote about current generation
19" and lower.

It doesn't matter if you see ghosting on 20"+, for the
purpose of the discusstion which is whether smaller
comparable resolutions exhibit it.

If we were taking about higher resolutions than native to
19", then CRTs lose on another front because their refresh
rate and pixel boundaries get so blurred it is no longer an
accurate output.

Looking more "digital" is not necessarily a flaw. A video
card does not transmit an infinitely high res, flawless
image, it transmits pixels. Accurately representing those
pixels is the monitor's job, not blurring them so they look
more lifelike.


Well the LCD I have at work runs 1600x1200 native, the same as I run my CRT
at. This whole discussion is really moot, the CRT looks better to *me* and
that's all that matters, I don't care what the specs say or what others
claim. *I* see/notice the disadvantages of LCD panels, they bother *me*, and
therefore *I* prefer a good CRT. If you prefer a flat panel, then get one,
but this is a personal preference.

I want the image to look lifelike, the CRT does a good job of that, what do
I care if that's not the "monitor's job"?