Best LCD monitor/card for old eyes

[geoff]

My experience is just the opposite. I had a viewsonic crt, worked well but
had the strength of my reading glasses increased because things started to
look a little blurry. I bought a samsung 204t LCD and the text is so sharp,
that I put my old lenses back in my glasses.

-g

 

[PWY]

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They will be distorted because 1280x1024 is not a multiple of
1024x768.


It's certainly a solution for now, and an inexpensive one at that, but
what happens when CRTs disappear in the future?

I actually find that flat panels are much easier on the eyes than
CRTs, especially with ClearType enabled.

Since no one else has mentioned this, I will. Hold down the Control key and
use the mouse wheel to enlarge text. I too have eye problems and do this
quite often. I use a Samsung 930B LCD and like it much more than the CRT I
was using before. I use large fonts set to 120 dpi in the Desktop Properties
window and Clear Type.
Hope this is helpful,
PWY

 

[Josh]

Since no one else has mentioned this, I will. Hold down the Control key and
use the mouse wheel to enlarge text. I too have eye problems and do this
quite often. I use a Samsung 930B LCD and like it much more than the CRT I
was using before. I use large fonts set to 120 dpi in the Desktop Properties
window and Clear Type.
Hope this is helpful,
PWY

The only way I see using control + scroll in within a web page......is
that what you meant?

Thanks

 

[Josh]

My experience is just the opposite. I had a viewsonic crt, worked well but
had the strength of my reading glasses increased because things started to
look a little blurry. I bought a samsung 204t LCD and the text is so sharp,
that I put my old lenses back in my glasses.

-g

Thats a 20", right? Do you run that at 1600x1200?

Some of my problem is winXP......I dual boot with win2000, and even
with my old CRT, things just look better in Win2000 than in WinXP.
WinXP changed the display somehow.

Thanks

 

[PWY]

The only way I see using control + scroll in within a web page......is
that what you meant?

Thanks

Yes, that's what I should have said.
PWY

 

[PWY]

The only way I see using control + scroll in within a web page......is
that what you meant?

Thanks

Just checked and it also works in Outlook Express.

PWY

 

[David Maynard]

Thats a 20", right? Do you run that at 1600x1200?

Some of my problem is winXP......I dual boot with win2000, and even
with my old CRT, things just look better in Win2000 than in WinXP.
WinXP changed the display somehow.

Thanks

That's because Windows 2000 doesn't do clear type screen font smoothing.
Turn it off in XP and it'll look like Windows 2000.

 

[Josh]

That's because Windows 2000 doesn't do clear type screen font smoothing.
Turn it off in XP and it'll look like Windows 2000.

That *was* with clear type turned off.........a friend thinks I
imagine it, but I swear that it looks different in XP.

Maybe I do imagine it.....

 

[Mxsmanic]

Some of my problem is winXP......I dual boot with win2000, and even
with my old CRT, things just look better in Win2000 than in WinXP.
WinXP changed the display somehow.

Can you describe exactly what you mean by "better"?

 

[Mxsmanic]

That's because Windows 2000 doesn't do clear type screen font smoothing.
Turn it off in XP and it'll look like Windows 2000.

XP doesn't do it by default; you have to turn it on.

If you have a standard flat-panel display, ClearType makes text a lot
more readable. If you have a non-standard flat panel, or a CRT, it
makes the text look more blurry. "Non-standard" means that the pixels
don't have their primary-color subpixels in the right order (red,
green, and blue). I think you can tune ClearType to get around this,
however. But you should never use it on a CRT.

 

[David Maynard]

David Maynard writes:




XP doesn't do it by default; you have to turn it on.

Right. But he mentioned he had turned it on at some point in time.

If you have a standard flat-panel display, ClearType makes text a lot
more readable. If you have a non-standard flat panel, or a CRT, it
makes the text look more blurry. "Non-standard" means that the pixels
don't have their primary-color subpixels in the right order (red,
green, and blue). I think you can tune ClearType to get around this,
however. But you should never use it on a CRT.

You bet. Looks lousy on a CRT.

I don't like it on my LCDs either but maybe my old eyes already got built
in 'smoothing'. Sounds better than blurry eye sight