Author Topic: Flat Screen Suggestion (Read 1319 times)

acetnt367th · « **Reply #15 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:30:34 AM »

Monitor will arrive tomorrow. Gonna fire up the game and see if I need to keep the 17" CRT

Acetnt

acetnt367th · « **Reply #16 on:** August 08, 2006, 09:34:41 AM »

Davenrino,

I have a 46" Plasma as well - Samsung I got from Sam's club. Have it for a year now and it works really well. I have not tried it with gaming though. I am afraid of 'Burn in". Is it not true that you can burn the image in the screen - especially when displaying stationary objects for a long time like the instrument panel of the cockpit?

Acetnt

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #17 on:** August 08, 2006, 02:21:54 PM »

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Originally posted by acetnt367th
Davenrino,

I have a 46" Plasma as well - Samsung I got from Sam's club. Have it for a year now and it works really well. I have not tried it with gaming though. I am afraid of 'Burn in". Is it not true that you can burn the image in the screen - especially when displaying stationary objects for a long time like the instrument panel of the cockpit?

Acetnt

My display is DLP and doesn't suffer from burn-in like RPCRT or plasma. The newer plasmas are getting better with burn-in. Here is the burn-in section from the best home theater forum around-

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=608677

Some plasmas also have problems with real fast action which is another problem my DLP doesn't have.

acetnt367th · « **Reply #18 on:** August 09, 2006, 02:48:34 PM »

Well I got the 204B Samsung LCD hooked up. Went to 1024 res pack textures and running 1280 x 1024 resolution at 70 MHz 32bit colour. Loading the textures to system memory (Have 2GB mem).

Still using the Athlon64 3400+ and Radeon 9800 pro. Still seem to have high frame rates - max at 70 most times. I have not seem any ghosting etc. Maybe this is only because I am not a professional looking at the monitor :-)

So far very happy. It is a gorgeous monitor. I only stayed in the game for a single sortie so may change my mind later.

Acetnt

Eagler · « **Reply #19 on:** August 09, 2006, 03:19:21 PM »

I loved my 930b when I first hooked it up but quickly noticed that when in a close t&b dogfight, the enemy plane blurred to the point it threw off my acm and aim
my crt stays crisp throughout the close fights and my aim is better
I hope you do not experience my issues with your lcd as they do produce a sharper image and are tops for everything but a fast moving game like AH

Skuzzy · « **Reply #20 on:** August 09, 2006, 03:23:46 PM »

My Wife has this one. Seems nice enough. She uses AutoCad, primarily, so I cannot comment on how a game would look on it.

Tigger29 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 09, 2006, 07:27:50 PM »

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Originally posted by DAVENRINO

you A-HOLE! hahaha

seriously.. I have a HANNS-G HN199D 19" 8ms.. I love it. Paid at the time $219 minus a $70 rebate (total $149) a few months ago from tigerdirect.com.

Although they now have a wide screen version of it... 5ms I think.. $179 after rebate.

It's just like that old saying.. "Once you go LCD, you never go back!"

Goodluck

acetnt367th · « **Reply #22 on:** August 09, 2006, 09:15:45 PM »

nice monitor skuzzy, but kinda expensive. bought the samsung for half the price off amazon. it doesn't have the usb ports nor speakers. would have liked the usb. it does have a 5ms response and can do 1600 res at 75mhz. some good, some bad. the thing is the lcd looks so good, i would live with a little blur if i do eventually see it.

acetnt

Skuzzy · « **Reply #23 on:** August 10, 2006, 07:19:07 AM »

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Originally posted by Tigger29
It's just like that old saying.. "Once you go LCD, you never go back!"

Oh, that is not true at all. As good as my Wife's LCD looks, my CRT still looks better and clearer. It all depends on the quality of the CRT. If you are used to low end CRT's, I agree, any LCD would be an improvement

The day my monitor gives out is going to be a very disappointing day for me. I am just hoping the current technology either improves or gets replaced with something better.

Rolex · « **Reply #24 on:** August 10, 2006, 09:18:29 AM »

PC size OLED displays should be commercialized in just a few more years, so they should be affordable in maybe 4 years or so. Hang on Skuzzy!

CRTs are expensive to produce compared to LCDs. It takes a line of 20+ manned workstations to assemble, tweak, test and re-tweak CRTs. All those alignments, zeroing, magnetic shims and trained people (mostly women) to do it.

LCDs are simple. Slap it into a jig and turn it on. If it works and meets pixel and brightness tests, slap it into a case. Go or NG. The poor ones get shuffled to cheap OEM brands and the bad ones go in the recyling bin.