The Great Lcd Monitor/lcd Tv Swindle

I bought the LG 22" 226WTQ-FS Widescreen monitor, with 2ms delay and 60 Hz refresh rate. It is horrible- ugly and blocky at low resolutions, and jitters when watching DVD movies or digital television. LG website advertise it as perfect for movies without blurring or distortion. What a collosal bunch of liars they are!

Your graphics card might be able to produce 100 fps, but LCD monitors only go as high as 75Hz (usually at very low resolution of 960x600 and below). This means you will only see up to 75 frames per second, regardless of the graphics card's ability. My 7950gx2 runs F.E.A.R at 250 fps at peak, and never below 97fps,so a CRT for me is the only option.

Most LCD monitors only use 60Hz (60 frames per second ) in resolutions higher than 960x600, so beware- a CRT monitor is the professional gaming/multimedia monitor you want (Sony 21" Trinitron Monitor with 2048x1680 at 85Hz is great!)

Unfortunately, the market is tied up with LCD's, even though they are far cheaper, they are crap in my opinion, unless you get a 42" LCD television capable of supporting PC's at 100Hz. But there is a snag with the technology in the 42" LCD t.v's- the picture is made stable by adding a black screen in between frames, so you get a consistant brain-fooling, where you think you've seen a smooth picture, but in fact whatever you see will be a series of picture-black-picture-black-picture (60 frames of picture and 40 frames of black screen), not like the CRT's smooth 100 fps of picture. LCD colours are also often less accurate than a CRT.

Get a Sony or Viewsonic widescreen CRT at 21", and be grateful that I let you know what a swindle the LCD industry really is...
CRT's are becoming obsolete, so you may not find a widescreen very easily- but it's worth shopping for one...

Honestly I completely disagree.. Today's LCDs are so good they are very very close to competing with CRTs.. yest crts still have a slight edge in colors and quality, but they aren't practical at all.

And heck.. even bothering with the 60hz refresh rate.. its all you need.... The human eye can only see about 30 fps so anything faster than 60 is completely useless.

I recenty got a new acer 22" widescreen to go with my old 19" dell LCD.. and the quality is awesome... yes you can experience a bit of quality loss when dealing with certain videos and resolutions and such as well.. but most of the time the problem with that is when you try and run windows that the resolution is just off.

This of course can all be fixed easily by making sure you are running the proper resolution.. and running a video that actually benefits from that resolution.. like when you are running something at near 1080p quality but is from say a regular DVD of course you will lose quality.. but thats mainly from the DVD itself.

The main difference between LCD and CRT in our days( is the Response time and the View Angels and Color quality. At all of them CRTs excel. However LCDs have other qualities, like size, radiation and look more aesthetic. But if we look that LCD is at the start of the road it's not that bad. CRT passed through initial problems also.

Color.... LCD the best of them uses 8bit panels. If 3dmax is a option for you then there the images can be up to 64 bit...quite a difference.

View Angle.... OK for TN panels the most criminal aspect is the max view angle of around 135-145 from below. For some more sophisticated panels..like Samsungs S-PVA this can be almost perfect...178 is close to the CRTs 180.

Response Time....Not a issue for most of us....Many of us have a not so sensitive eye and don't play some fast actioned shooters (for example).

LE: As for the 60HZ... At the LCDs the technology is different so doesn't applies the technique used at the CRTs. And beyond it...You'll never use more than 70fps in practice. 70 fps is all you need. But the LCD can display 250 fps also. The question is only if you have played a shooter with 250+fps... Cause if that's the case I wish you luck at a such a great speed. For sure you won't enjoy the ride. And why do you think that V-Sync was invented ? To be used when your system is to good.