What type of monitor do you use?

What type of monitor do you use?


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I've got a 24" PVA LCD and the 24" Trinitron.

I'll be buying a second 24" non-TN LCD to replace the Trinitron at some point.

I appreciate that if you navigate the compromises carefully to suit your application, you won't be disappointed. What I don't like about the PVAs is what happens when you swing your head off axis.
 
Because your epert opinion would unduly influence them? :confused:

I dunno. And I was half-asleep when I made the thread, so I'd probably mess things up.
 
I appreciate that if you navigate the compromises carefully to suit your application, you won't be disappointed. What I don't like about the PVAs is what happens when you swing your head off axis.

Getting this:

isn't worth paying double the price to get instead of this:

However, there are some beautiful IPS screens that I may end up getting, for reasons other than viewing angles.

edit: Viewing angle pictures are here. The two in question I was going to use are the first and last.
 
Getting this:

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isn't worth paying double the price to get instead of this::

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However, there are some beautiful IPS screens that I may end getting, for reasons other than viewing angles.

It looks like your images prevent hotlinking. All I see is a tiny white pixel. :confused:
 
CRT screens give me migraines, so I've used LCD screens for several years now.
 
I've been trying to find an anti-glare screen (we had one with the old Aptiva) for my monitor. No luck.
 
Well sometimes I get these nasty headaches (partially a side effect from medications, partly results from banging up my head a few years ago), so anti-glare screen would help. (For now, I usually just lower the brightness of screen.)
 
Sometimes you can increase the refresh rate to decrease eyestrain. However if you push the monitor too hard it will give out on you sooner.
 
The refresh rate on my monitor is fixed, and I wouldn't want to damage my monitor by forcing it to another.
 
Yes, but what I mean is that it only shows one refresh rate that'll work properly, and I don't want to mess with it:

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Try using a lower resolution and see whether you get more vertical options (refresh rates). If not, it could be worth finding out your horizontal frequency and determining the available rates and overriding it. 60Hz would cause eye strain.
 
An old CRT: 19" NEC MultiSync FE950+. It's probably at least 6 years old but show no sign of giving up. :)
 
That monitor has a 96kHz horizontal frequency. Without doing the maths, I'd assume it would be fine at 1024x768 and 85Hz or higher.

With CRTs there is the dot pitch to consider. They can only produce a dot down to a certain size. Try to go higher in resolution and the image becomes blurry.
 
Try using a lower resolution and see whether you get more vertical options (refresh rates). If not, it could be worth finding out your horizontal frequency and determining the available rates and overriding it. 60Hz would cause eye strain.

I've tried that before, not much luck. I have a SPM Micro Axess, which came with my computer. The other alternative is to try the spare monitor, which is a ViewSonic, and about the same size (16 or 17 inches -- I can't find the measuring tape, and the ruler's kinda hard to use.).
 
Try using a lower resolution and see whether you get more vertical options (refresh rates). If not, it could be worth finding out your horizontal frequency and determining the available rates and overriding it. 60Hz would cause eye strain.

LCDs don't work like that.

Any resolution asides from the native (max) resolution means it just interpolates, and makes it look blurry. (Unless you can run an exact number of pixels per, like a 2560x1600 monitor running at 1280x800)

Also, generally any LCD that has advertised or has the option of running at anything past 60 Hz doesn't really, for technical reasons. (Exceptions here for higher end LCD TVs, which run at 120 Hz, but no computer monitors actually work at 75 Hz)

There's really no reason to use an antiglare piece of fabric or mesh in the first place with any monitor.
 
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