CRT's vs. LCD - (Was: Re: boosting CRT heater voltage)

[Tony Duell]

> You know, I have the same problem. I don't know what it is about LCD 
> monitors, but they do tend to induce headaches. CRT's never seem to 
> bother me. I can stay up many hours into the night staring into a VT100 

Badly adjusted CRTs, partcilaurly poor convergence, drive me insane. 

> in a dark room with no problems - but an hour of using a laptop and I 
> have a headache. 

However, LCDs don't seem to botyehr me, although I don't own an LCD 
monitor so I've not used one for long periods.

I wonder if the problem isn't the LCD itself, but some characteristic of 
the backlight,

-tony