Paul said:
Information wanted on monitor response time?
Ads for Flat screen monitors are now talking about response time. Does
anyone know what the response time is for a CRT monitor?
Response times, measured in millsecond, is considered important for
gaming on LCDs to prevent motion bluring. Consequently, vendors are
developing very short response time LCD displays. Some are now quoting
as low a 2ms.
The problem with this is that LCD response time varies widely depending
on the color of the transition that is being measured, but most quoted
response times are for grey to grey transitions. As
www.anandtech.com
and
www.tomshardware.com have demonstrated in their independent testing,
response time varies considerably for color, position on the screen,
etc. Since there are no standards for LCD monitor performance, vendors
are free to choose whatever they wishfor advertising response times;
most do not even specify what transition is being measured. Note also
that short response time is accompanied by reduction in viewing angle,
if that makes a difference (as it will with large LCD displays).
Since gaming is not done in a grey scale color pallet, it is best to be
wary of quoted response times in general. Attempt to see the monitor in
"action" since that is the only way to validate the monitor for a given
application.
Q