New LCD Technology Outperforms CRT

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

I have 2 computers running XP - one with an LCD, the other with a CRT. When I look at them side by side I can see how much crisper and better the picture seems on the CRT. The downside is the CRT monitor has a smaller size than the LCD.

[Plasma]

The article should be titled "LCDs improve"...Analog CRTs have always had infinite color, which LCDs will never have.

[Dio]

dang, and all this time iv'e thought that LCD's were gods gift to humanity.

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

The article should be titled "LCDs improve"...Analog CRTs have always had infinite color, which LCDs will never have.

I'll keep that in mind...

[na_th_an]

dang, and all this time iv'e thought that LCD's were gods gift to humanity.

I do graphical design and I can tell you they aren't They take less space and look modern, but they are worse. I remember when I spent a summer colouring my comics in my portable and then, after the summer, when I looked at them from a CRT monitor everything was yellow :lol:

And in hotmail, form work, where I use a LCD, I *can't* distinguish which emails are read and which aren't, 'cause the light yellow and white used to differentiate them look *the same* unless y tilt my head to an extrange angle where white turns gray or something like that.

Heh.

[yetifoot]

What about sub-pixel plotting? I'm not versed in the gory details, but i heard that is not available on CRT (however the Apple II used to do it on a normal TV i think?)

[Dio]

dang, and all this time iv'e thought that LCD's were gods gift to humanity.

I do graphical desig... ...nge angle where white turns gray or something like that.

Heh.

really? because the LCD that i use seems to work fine. no weird color sh!t or anything... hifty:

[yetifoot]

They used to have some quite cool ones where i used to work, you could spin them round and they'd automatically switch to portrait instead of landscape. They never let me have one though, i got the bog standard 15" Dell.

[torstum]

can you imagine it? a slow gradient of up to 4000 shades of grey?
RGB(4000,4000,4000) = 64,000,000,000
64 billion colors
3814% increase.

How many colours is the human eye capable of seeing?

The human eye can see 7,000,000 colors. Some of these are eyesores. Certain colors and color relationships can be eye irritants, cause headaches, and wreak havoc with human vision. Other colors and color combinations are soothing.

http://www.colormatters.com/optics.html

So, taken to the limit, it's a kind of overkill. The technology now exists that makes it possible to irritate your vision with great sophistication.

But seriously now, it's great news, no doubt about it.

[na_th_an]

What about sub-pixel plotting? I'm not versed in the gory details, but i heard that is not available on CRT (however the Apple II used to do it on a normal TV i think?)

"Subpixel" it's just (AFAIK) a way to anti-alias stuff on screen. It's used by the Cleantype antialiasing method for fonts and I have it activated in my computer. It looks great on my 19" CRT