Slightly OT: Old CRT displays vs. new LCD

[Mr Ian Primus]

--- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.

You're not imagining it - I have noticed the same
thing. The picture of a good CRT beats an LCD any day
for me. And, for whatever reason, LCD's seem to give
me headaches. I don't know what it is, but something
about them, I get headaches after a few hours. Mono
terminals never give me problems - LCD's do. Go
figure.

At home I use a pair of old GDM 17E10 (one Sun, one
SGI) monitors on my Mac. I absolutely love them. I
actually just had to swap out one of them, it needs to
be recapped. The linearity is going south, and it's
starting to develop smearing. Not bad though, it was
made in like '93, and I have been using it every day
for the last six years. Fortunately I had a spare.
I'll have to keep my eyes open for more of them.

At work, I use a well worn Dell 17" CRT monitor with
Windows 98 screen burn, connected to a PC running
Linux. It's a bit worse for wear, with the burn-in and
the tube getting dim, but it's still crisp and
readable.

For most purposes, CRT's are much nicer than LCD's
(IMHO). But, then again, that's just how I feel. Most
people these days would disagree with me. Besides, us
in the classic computer community are probably a bit
biased <grin>. Nothing beats the sharpness of a good
monochrome CRT...

-Ian