LCD Flastscreens

I just bought a 19inch LCD with 600:1 ratio, 16 millions colors, DVI, and 1280*1024 max res.

Fired up a few games and …whoa! blurrrrrryyyy! Sitting still and the image is great! Start moving and you lose clarity. You guys experiencing this? Using a GeForce 2 with 32 mb mem video card.

May have to put my old 19inch standard monitor back on, though I lose 75% of my desktop with it.

LCDs are like that generally. fast motion is a bit blurred because the pixels can’t transition from on to off quite as fast. I think Samsung or some company recently made a significant improvement in this area though.
I imagine there is some variance depending on the manufacture.

Absolutely. The more you pay, generally, the less they blur.

Cas :slight_smile:

There’s also the “response time” isn’t there? I seem to remember reading somewhere but I don’t see it in your spec…

Kev

If you want to use a TFT monitor for games, you should get one with low response time. (response=rise+fall) For reasons, which are more difficult to explain, 20ms is often better than 16ms. Lowest is currently 12ms I think. You shouldn’t buy a TFT with more than 25ms, if you want to use it for games often.

went back and got a 17 inch with 16ms. The 19 turned out to be 25 ms. Looks great but still not as sharp as my 19 inch crt

what to do…what to do…

I packed up the 17 inch lcd, put my 19 crt back on and webpages, text, etc. are much better, but it doesnt have the bright pop of the lcd…dang! :-/