The LCD monitor I have has amazing color contrast if you're sitting at the right angle. Everything is much more vibrant than my old monitor.. sure, the old one was a garden variety 17 inch CRT, but either way one of the cheapest LCDs is far better than a normal CRT.
That is actually the culprit.
In the past when everybody had a CRT monitor, the last thing they bought was a monitor, and while people tried to get a good computer for as less bucks as possible, but the monitor people bought was as cheap as they possibly could get, and no-one looked at the quality, just the cheaper the better.
Which ment people were getting headaches all the time, got problems with their eyes, and people that were sensitive would get problems with their faces and hands(rash and eczema) as well. And the reason was simple, most monitors could not go to a higher refreshrate than 55 or 60 Hrz and were not equiped with an anti static layer henge the eczema. Also contrast was just plain horrible, unless you were real lucky.
And in my country it was not that different than in other countries worlwide. And to get a monitor that had good contrast, good anti static protectione and good refreshrates, for a 17 inch CRT you would have to pay 800 dollars+ and for a 22 inch you had to pay 1200dollars+
Which means that the monitor would be prettty much double the amount that people were willing to pay for the entire computer........... Instead paying 600 dollars for a computer including a moniter it would have ment people would have to pay 1600 dollars+ for a computer including a monitor. And seeing what i saw in the past, only if hell freezes over that happened.
So its simple, no-one had such a monitor. The fact i did pay that amount for a monitor was i had to do high end graphics even backthan. And i have a rare "condition" which enables me to see refreshrates up to 83-85 Hrz. So any monitor that run below 85 Hrz to me looked like a stroboscope.
And no matter where i went, to poor people, to rich people, to the government, to small companies or to very wealthy large companies, time after time i saw flickering stroboscope like monitors. And since i did graphics work, even on graphical companies i saw the same thing.......
Than Halleluya, LCD came. Shop owners said, wow, that means we dont have drag around a huge lump of glass weighing half a ton. We can store 50 times the amount of LCD's in the same space. We can get rid of the service that we have bring monitors to peoples home because they weight too much or they are to large for people to take home in their car.
And halleluya, headaches were gone, rash is gone, eczema gone, the d a m n thing can be placed on any table, no matter how small, you can take the box containing the LCD home under your arm, the powerconsumption is zero to nothing, so its green as hell. WOOOOW
But the graphics..........
IT TOTALLY SUCKS, it simply does. For gaming, you can have ghosting which is impossible with a CRT. The contrast is zero to nothing, and i can easelly proof that. About a month ago i already was looking for LCD monitors to see if they had improoved somewhat. And while i was there in the store i also had a look at televisions, and there the same story you can only get LCD or plasma televisions.
And i am talking about a huge store where they have like 300-400 LCD televisions running. And the price range 200 dollars for a smaller television up to 5000 dollars for a wall sized telly. And they sold cheap brands as well as highly recommended brands. On all televisions they showed the same thing a snooker game. So all the time you saw the snookertable with collored balls and the guys playing the game.
And its simple, i watched in total horror, no matter what brand, no matter what price, all balls on the screen had jpg like artifacts around them. The hair of the players was simply not visible, they all were just a fuzzy jpg compression like fuzzy blobs. Some screens it was a bit better and you could see a bit detail, well a bit detail, it now looked like all the guys had thick 1 inch wide dreadlocks.
Oh wait, there is a televion where you can see the individual hairstrands. It has a sigh above it telling this is how it looks on a CRT television. And of course the colors were set so it looked real bad....... But..........., you could see any individual hairstrand, and no artifacts arround the colored balls, and the contrast was crystal clear ::)
LCD is utter, utter, utter, utter c r a p quality, and if you dont believe me, go to a similar store, and tell me if you can see individual hairstrands crystal, crystal clear, i bet..................................
Its simple, LCD is super easy to handle, and has tons of plus points, no disagreement from me there, becaue there really are alot of pluspoints
But where it really matters, the quality, well, the quality, is as bad as you can get. Not to mention, motion is still a big problem on 95%(+) of the screens and that includes the most expensive LCD screen you can get. And as i see it, if you buy a television, since that is a picture that moves all the time, its kinda handy if the telly actually can follow the motion ::)
.
.
.
