New LCD flatscreen monitor

[Ian Pollard]

Hi
I am looking for advice before buying a new monitor. I have a
Relisys 17" TE770 CRT monitor at present. Due to an imminent house
removal, I need to cut down on space so thought I may as well use the
excuse to buy a reasonable 19" Flat panel monitor. I have a Nvidia
GEForce FX5200 AGP card with 128MB of memory. I use it for general
surfing, word processing and picture editing in Photoshop CS. What
should I be looking for and will my present graphics card be good
enough for a new monitor. I am very happy with my present setup but
need to lose the massive CRT display. Any help appreciated.

Ian

 

[Davy]

All I can say is you gotta bear in mind on what you want to do with
the monitor.... "yeah, yeah I know... say no more" .

Plasma displays are rather slow about 9ms to light a pixel, LCD's
being around the 6ms mark.... the good ol' Cathode Ray Tube that
served us well over the years being the faster.

Think there was an issue with playing fast moving games on a plasma
somewhere here on HTFC, hence the mention but certainly worth looking
into if you are a gamer to save dissapointment if it was an issue.

I do a lot of PCB cad... I always stick to the ol' CRT seem more
relaxing to me against a grid background, plus fact the viewing angle
is not as critical.

Now't do with the post but to check for dead pixel have a peep here
http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/DeadPixels.html there should be non in
in the central area but only a certain number allowed around towards
the edges.

Davy

 

[Bob Myers]

All I can say is you gotta bear in mind on what you want to do with
the monitor.... "yeah, yeah I know... say no more" .

Plasma displays are rather slow about 9ms to light a pixel,

Where in the world did you ever get THAT idea? The switching
time of plasma pixels is in the microsecond range...in terms of
response time, they're roughly equivalent to CRTs (and use very,
very similar - almost indistinguishable, in fact - phosphors). The
main difference is that, since they're NOT raster-scan devices,
plasma panels don't suffer from the CRT's flicker problem.

Bob M.