pretty straight forward. CRT vs. LCD.

i like LCDs mostly because they look nice and the picture is superior to CRTs, but CRTs have very very nice response time...

my CRTs all are "damaged". when a certain time comes the monitor sortof quits on ya....like now i have annoying dark lines scrolling across the screen...

response time is now megligble and hardly any difference between CRTs and LCDs, i believe, (don't hold me to this) erm, space?

i go for LCD, when i can afford it

Flat screens also use a lot less energy than a CRT. Save the planet and well as your hard earned...

I second that to LCDs!

for everything graphics related lcd's are usless. you just canot calabrate them well enugh. and crt's desplay mutch more acurate colers.

this is a problem for me that i only just found out about. i do alot of digatal imagery and if i post it on blenderartists i frecwently get comments of "its to dark!"

if you can, despaly the same image on a crt and lcd at the same time and compere the 2 images. if your crt is calobrated corectly then it will look mutch better.

the amount of enegy saved isant worth it if you cannot work propaly! buy big crt,s!

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i can see individual pixals on my monitor, i can see the color changing on lcd screens, but not crt's

well i have a LCD that looks wayy superior compared to my CRT....there is a blur effect on...say....scrolling webpages on my LCD that i wont see on a CRT

The colors are better on cheap CRTs versus LCDs other than very expensive LCDs. This will only matter if you professionally need perfectly calibrated colors.

For every day users, I think that LCDs are far superior, even for gamers, just not professional film/photo/graphics people.

i am not profesanal, but i find working woth my laptops lcd is a nightmere! i would buy a crt, but you just dont see them anymore, and it would cost a masave amount to order one . for me a flat screen 22" crt would be perfect for blender work, but my lappy's vidio card wouldent drive a screen that big. with blender my buigist time waster is constantly hafing to zoom in!

crt's are a analog divice. perfectly calabrating color is mutch easer on a analog system than digital. becose you have a infanatly veriable scale. insted of changing in steps.

LOL, it's almost the opposite here. CRTs are the norm, you'd be living in luxury to get LCD screens. Even though they're not very expensive, they're not that cheap to get widespread here.


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you never see nay crt,s in shops it the uk, atlest ive never seen any recently!

the idea has spread that if you have a CRT, your computer is either outdated or very low end.

lcd's are completly useless for anything better than web browsing and word prosessing.

witch is a lode of rubbish. untill lcd becomes as acurate as crt it rilly isant worth owning one

I like LCDs. No whining, eats a lot less power, won't pull my back moving it or bend the table under its' weight...

It also doesn't get discolored from electric fields like CRTs do. I've got sort of weird wiring in my house so LCDs are a big plus

buy good furniture insted of ikia crap. you should be able to push a table without it wobbaling at all!

thay dont if you get good ones, that are shelded propaly. mabie you need to rewire your house?

I prefer LCD because:
>I don't really care much about qraphics, so long as it doesn't look like an elephants rear, as i don't use my comp. for graphic stuff like picture editing etc.
> If i was using a CRT just now, my desk would have to be a lot bigger so that i sill had the nececarry paperwork space that i need.
>If i was using a CRT just now, i would have to have a hole in the wall behingd it so that the viewing part of the screen is where it is now, as i keep my LCD pushed right back at the wall.

Yes, i acnowledge that sometimes CRT's are bettter, like for editing pictures on a high-end scale, but i don't do that, so i'm quite happy with LCD

I live in New Zealand, LCD's that provide a picture with comparable quality to a CRT aren't too expensive - if you are one of the few who earn $10,000 more than the average wage.

I'm a student, so I think I'll stick with my CRT. It's 21" and cost me $0. So I have to degauss it every so often, so what?

I do a lot of programming, web browsing, gaming and picture editing. An LCD that produced a similar quality picture is far, far out of my price range.

I don't think I will be buying an LCD for a few years yet.

Check this out though:

Sharp has developed two methods of using modified LCD's to produce three dimensional displays.

How the parallax barrier method works

...Cool

I prefer LCD's myself, mainly because they save space, they don't take ages to turn on and I can get a decent resolution without having to look at a 60 (or even 75)Hz flicker.

I don't really do a whole lot of image editing, so colours aren't really a problem, although looking at the same image on my LCD as the CRT also connected to my computer looks pretty similar.

The only thing that I prefer the CRT for is movies, blacks just don't look right on a LCD, but it's no major issue.

One day I'll get around to buying a couple more, they've got a whole lot better and a whole lot cheaper since I bought mine, but being a uni student, I'm not exactly loaded with money.

witch is why there better for image editing

I can't afford the good desks. I bought mine when it was clearanced at Staples for $25. :-/

Do you know how much that would cost‽ I do use well-shielded cables but I don't know about the CRT monitor I used to use. It was a bit more expensive than other similarly sized monitors and got great reviews when I bought it...

Although... I really should do something about the wiring. The TV gets messed up quite a bit and the circular fluorescent closest to the biggest problem spot (all the wires from the upper floor go through this corner) glows slightly on one side until I touch it a few times...



As for blacks, wouldn't a higher contrast ratio LCD be fine?

i never understood what Degauss was doing :S

i have all my LCDs lined up, and then a CRT. the CRT looks way out of place...it juest doesnt have teh picture quaility a LCD does