I find the picture is not as sharp. Motion is blurred if fast enough.
Older LCDs had this problem, newer ones are better. I was at Future Shop
where they had all the monitors and LCDs on a splitter displaying the same
thing. It was an Aquarium screensaver with fish swimming. The fish twist
and turn. The motion on a regular monitor 15, 17, 19 was fluid and crisp.
On the LCDs, it was not fluid, not crisp. Still pictures are fine.
The ones at my local COMPUSA look OK with the Aquarium program.
I havent really tested any with a game though so I am concerned about
it.
One thing I noticed the new ones are just plain better. My neighbor
bought a Samsung with TV tuner built in that was rated well and cost a
ridiculous amount - $700 or so a while back and its lousy looking. It
has a silvery flourescent look and seems a bit faded , not enough
contrast, washed out even when you turn the contrast up and turn the
brightness down.
The new one he bought is way better and cost half as much. The colors
are far more vibrant and rich looking - the constrast is better. The
black is much more like real black.
The other point is you have to run it all the manufacturers default
resolution for the size. Let say it is 1024x768 for a 15", if you want to
run it at 800x600 to have bigger picture, it will interpolate the pixels.
It is horrible. I have an old retired 72 year old who bought an NEC 15"
LCD, beautiful picture but he has to run it at 800x600 because his vision is
poor even with glasses and I find it terrible. In default 1024x768 it is
crisp. I haven't the heart to tell him how blurry the picture is at
800x600, his eyes don't see it so I let it go. After that, I read up on
LCDs in reviews and found out some of the common complaints like I
mentioned. But this old fellow was determined to get one and went out and
bought it.
Im concerned about that too. Thats why Id sort of like both since some
LCDs are getting ridiculously cheap. If you had both then you dont
have to worry about some of problems with the LCD. I saw some offbrand
17" selling for $250 a few weeks ago and some really cheap 15".
Right now I want to get a flat screen CRT.
I keep reading many of the more leading companies are thinking of
getting out of the CRT business - no profit. Its like manythings - the
low cost manufacturers in Asia have decimated the market and there is
no profit to be made for most of the companies so they writing it off.
There was an article about Sony two weeks ago which said they were
leaving the market plain of jane CRTs and going for LCDs, HDTVs etc.
I just read some blurb that said notebook/laptops were outselling
desktop PCs recently.
