Slightly OT: Old CRT displays vs. new LCD

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 02 December 2007 17:23, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I was just doing some work on my  Beige G3 attached to an HP 98789A
> 17" monitor sitting next to a PC with a brand-new wide-screen LCD and
> a NVidia DVI-output AGP card.
>
> What struck me was how smooth the color rendition was with the CRT (I
> think it's a Sony under the HP badge) compared to the LCD.  Sure, the
> LCD has more pixels and is very sharp, but the HP analog tube seems
> to be much more pleasing to the eye.
>
> Am I imagining this or have others noticed the same thing?  Is this
> another case of vinyl-vs-CD?  I don't own an LCD TV and after this
> experience am not tempted to get one.
>
> I figure this is fair game for the list, as the G3 is over 10 years
> old and the HP monitor much older than that.

I dunno but I've been staring at this laptop screen for a number of months 
now,  while I search for which box has the boards that were in my workstation 
that I need to rebuild.

I expect I'll get that round tuit one of these days and then I'll have a 
side-by-side comparison as well.

This is my first extensive use of other than a monitor,  so it should be 
interesting going back again.

I do know that Sony stuff does seem to work very nicely overall.  I have a tv 
in the room here that I brought with me when I left NYC -- back in 1978!  The 
tube is a bit worse for wear,  but it mostly works just fine.

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