Re: Flat Monitors

Tim:
If you do any graphic work, LCDs are crap. The colours/shading/etc
change radically depending on your angle of view.

Dean S. Messing:
This is true of older Twisted Nematic LC panels but false for
many modern panels.

The viewing angle problem has been dramatically reduced in the past 3
years, esp. on high-end panels like (for example) Sharp Corp. makes.
For example, Multi-domain Vertically Aligned (MVA) technology has very
nice angle properties---at the expense of LC response time. (No free
lunch.)

Every LCD screen that I've seen, from the cheapies to the horrendously
expensive, has that issue. Just in differing amounts. The average LCD
screen someone buys from the local retailers are still bloody awful.
The $7,000 LCD TV set is about the time when things start to approach
being as good as other display types.

The statement that LCDs "are crap" for serious graphics work is simply
not true any more. High-end LC panels _far_ exceed CRTs in every
category (e.g., brightness, colour gamut, tone scale, MTF, dynamic
range) except response time, and with "overdrive" and the new
"flashing backlight" techniques on the horizon, even that barrier will
soon be gone. CRT technology, like the vacuum tube in general, is
essentially dead.

Where I work, in television, where they do buy horrendously expensive
monitors, they will not touch LCDs for anything other than monitors that
aren't paid close attention to. CRTs far exceed them in all the things
you just mentioned. The contrast range of the LCD is inferior, and
that's the basis of all the other measurements. With a poor contrast
range, you can't get the full colour gamut.

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