crt vs lcd

[charleski]

Here's a review of the 2407-HC with calibrated gamut charts. For comparison, this is a review of the Samsung 245B from the same site.

CRTs have one major problem for colour work, they are very dim compared to LCDs (and grow dimmer as they age) and need to be used in a darkened room if you want any sort of accuracy. You can crank up the brightness, but that blows away the white-point.

[charleski]

if you want to be able to bob and weave your head around and still see the same image exactly, the CRT is for you.

What you're missing is that, on a suitably large LCD screen (eg 24"), the perceived gamma from the top of the screen can be different to that at the bottom. If you're you're a professional and you want to be sure that WYSIWYG (as you should), then this is an issue that is important, especially in terms of checking the amount of shadow detail that will be apparent in the print.

[ajl747]

crt beats lcds in everything except weight.

image quality, refresh/sync.... pwnij!

sony 24" ws crt is the best!!!

[acrobat]

I saw a really nice widescreen CRT for sale on ebay. I wish I bought it now.

[excalibur2]

I saw a really nice widescreen CRT for sale on ebay. I wish I bought it now.

If I lived near Royston Cambs, I would have bought this for £10:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=013

[Cromlech]

My Viewsonic G90f+ is a fantastic monitor, and I have loved it for three years now, but I am hoping to get a Matrox triplehead setup, and TFTs will be better for this.

[acrobat]

If I lived near Royston Cambs, I would have bought this for £10:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=013

Yeah it was distance that was the problem for me too.

I would be wary of those Iiyama monitors though, because the last ones I looked at, used some fancy new technology which was great but had a side effect of having a couple of horizontal lines that where visible on a pale background. They where only faint, but it would bug me.

[excalibur2]

Yeah it was distance that was the problem for me too.

I would be wary of those Iiyama monitors though, because the last ones I looked at, used some fancy new technology which was great but had a side effect of having a couple of horizontal lines that where visible on a pale background. They where only faint, but it would bug me.

Many have the faint wires across inc mine but I only notice it when I look for it.....I was watching that monitor for 5 days and at the last moment the seller withdrew on some excuse "not working or broken"..................strange as no one was bidding say 99p and no bids for the start of £10.

[Agent]

Yeah it was distance that was the problem for me too.

I would be wary of those Iiyama monitors though, because the last ones I looked at, used some fancy new technology which was great but had a side effect of having a couple of horizontal lines that where visible on a pale background. They where only faint, but it would bug me.

Thats the same on all flat screen CRTs
Its just the way the grille works for those types of screen.

[TooNice]

The faint line is present on all 'aperture grill' monitors (as opposed to 'shadow mask'). I am not sure if all 'flat CRTs' are aperture grill based, but I personally prefer aperture grill to shadow mask in general, despite the faint lines (but I remember the debates back then, as some people are more sensitive to it).

[acrobat]

Yeah the shadow mask doesn't have it. But from what I could tell (a year or so ago, when I was last researching CRT's), the plus side of the aperture grille is that they generally had much higher refresh rates at much higher resolutions than shadow mask monitors. There really was no contest.

I never actually saw the lines on an aperture grille screen, so I could only go on what people where saying online. Some people said it doesn't bother them, and some people said it annoyed them. So I didn't want to take the chance. Thats one of just a few reasons why I went with an LCD instead. Lack of widescreen CRT's was one of the other reasons.

[excalibur2]

Anybody interested in a crt 19" monitor and lives in Nottingham, there is a new one for sale on Ebay:-

Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB - Display - CRT - 19"....one bid so far £4.95

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mitsubishi-Dia...QQcmdZViewItem