Eye Strain & Injury? - PLEASE HELP!

[Tidus]

I have bad problems with eye strain aswell I don't think there's much you can do, as some people have suggested properly configuring you monitors colour profile is a good idea, I did this and am looking to move my PC to a naturaly bright room, but the best thing I find to do is take a 15 minute break from the PC every hour or turn away from the screen occasionaly as your working and focus your eyes on something else, this helps me reduce my eye pain but not stop it, but I spend HR's in front of the PC everyday.

[cd_rom]

How about go and see your optician? He/she may be able to do something about your eyes, you never know!

[WoLFe]

Good suggestion, I went in the last 2 weeks and was said to have great vision.

[cd_rom]

I admit that I skimmed reading your thread so i obviously missed some info. I have a friedn who has similar problem (migraine), so the optician suscribed her a pair of glasses and she uses them whenever she on the computer.

I am in same boat as you but not as bad. I recently upgrade my 17'' CRT monitor cause it died out (too old!). So i bought a hannsg 22'' lcd ws. Very nice monitor, except after few weeks of usage I can't sit infront of it for more than 10-15mins (20 if i pushed it). Problem? Dizziness and eye strain and im wearing glasses constantly.

So i tried to change various setting in the monitor, dont really help. Now i have brightness at 67, 100 was default setting, I think i get used to it now, dont have to stop or anything.

[WoLFe]

Got the Difusion e700 running at 1024x768 @ 85hz

[cd_rom]

I saw your other thread on crt monitor. 1024x768 is what i used to run on my 17''crt, gone ws now and i dont plan to go back!

Whatever float your boat huh!

[WoLFe]

Indeed! Does anyone know what the FST stands for in "FST CRT" monitors?

http://www.checkcost.co.uk/samsung-s...-ivor/p/65842/

There is an example. Cheers!

[Tidus]

FST stands for 'Flat Square Tube', It's a CRT with a with a flat viewing surface to give a sharper picture with less distortion.

[WoLFe]

FST stands for 'Flat Square Tube', It's a CRT with a with a flat viewing surface to give a sharper picture with less distortion.

Ah thanks alot, makes sense now. I really love this CRT monitor. Are they going to be increasingly hard to get in the near future? I cannot believe I got this one new.

[arthurleung]

If at 0% brightness you still feel a bit of eyestrain try sit back a bit as well as set the brightness down in the driver.

A few monitor that I came across, particularly the cheaper one, are still extremely bright even at 0% brightness.

I do sometimes have eye-strain (either too dim on laptop or too bright on desktop lcd). My prescription is -6.5 though.

To do a subjective check, just go into pc-world and see if any monitor there doesn't give you the eye-strain.

[Tidus]

Ah thanks alot, makes sense now. I really love this CRT monitor. Are they going to be increasingly hard to get in the near future? I cannot believe I got this one new.

CRT monitors are being phased out, a lot of manufacturers have already phased out CRT's but there is a lot of people who prefer CRT to LCD, I like the picture better on my LCD screen but I found my old CRT nicer to sit infront of for a long time, my eye strain is alot worse infront of an LCD screen.

[WoLFe]

CRT monitors are being phased out, a lot of manufacturers have already phased out CRT's but there is a lot of people who prefer CRT to LCD, I like the picture better on my LCD screen but I found my old CRT nicer to sit infront of for a long time, my eye strain is alot worse infront of an LCD screen.

Makes perfect sense, is it worth buying a spare CRT in the near future before they become less available?

[Tidus]

I'd keep your eye open and try checking out Ebay for a bargain, with so many people upgrading to big widescreen LCD monitor's and HD LCD's, alot of them will probably sell off their CRT's, Ebay is always good for a bargain.