Author Topic: CRT or LCD? (Read 1877 times)

1K3 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2006, 02:23:27 AM »

I just bought a Samseong 941 BW widescreen monitor. The default contrast-brightness settings are TOO HIGH! When you buy a samseong monitor the contrast/brightness control must be lowered. My current setting for my 941BW is 25/100 for brightness and 35/100 for contrast.

NOT · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2006, 06:36:56 AM »

i bought a 19"widescreen for AH, didnt like it. went back to my samsung 930b.

BlauK · « **Reply #17 on:** December 18, 2006, 04:44:03 AM »

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Originally posted by Nomak
Is there any disadvantage to using a widescreen?

Dave

In AH you will see less visible area vertically, if you use a wide screen ratio

However, you can also set AH and your monitor to run with AH's normal 4:3 ratio and leave black bars to the sides of your screen.

mipoikel · « **Reply #18 on:** December 18, 2006, 05:00:36 AM »

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Originally posted by BlauK
In AH you will see less visible area vertically, if you use a wide screen ratio

However, you can also set AH and your monitor to run with AH's normal 4:3 ratio and leave black bars to the sides of your screen.

This depends on what is your LCD monitors resolution.

19" LCD is 1280 x 1024 pixels.

usually 19" Wide screen is 1440x900 pixels. In that case you get less vertically.

But, for example Blauks laptop has 1680 x 1050 resolution, he gets 26 pixels more vertically than in normal 4:3 19" LCD.

BlauK · « **Reply #19 on:** December 18, 2006, 05:25:07 AM »

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Originally posted by mipoikel
This depends on what is your LCD monitors resolution.

But, for example Blauks laptop has 1680 x 1050 resolution, he gets 26 pixels more vertically than in normal 4:3 19" LCD.

IIRC, AH always shows max horizontal view and then either cuts or adds vertical view (from default) according to screen ratio.

Mipo,
on my laptop 1680x1050 (16:10 ratio) the vertical view is only 83% of the normal (4:3) vertical view area. (I dont mean pixels, but view angle)

On my desptop lcd 1280x1024 (5:4 ratio) I see about 7% more vertical view than on normal 4:3 ratio screen.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #20 on:** December 18, 2006, 01:25:19 PM »

I definitely lose a lot of vertical view area @ 1920x1080 on my 58" so I run AH @ 1280x1024.

Helrazr1 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 02, 2007, 09:47:38 AM »

If you are going to get an LCD, you want one with 5ms latency or less, I played AH on one with *ms, and it definately had some blur to it .

Brenjen · « **Reply #22 on:** January 02, 2007, 09:55:05 AM »

I have a 19" 2 MS LCD & I still get some blur, mainly on the names of fast movers that are close to me. But it's not a huge issue, I like my LCD & it was cheap at Newegg & got to me in under 24 hours.

loony1 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 02, 2007, 11:22:39 AM »

this is mine ACER 22in wide screen....$350

5ms responce set at 1280X1024....Awsome...super clear picture.runs AH smooth:aok

Brenjen · « **Reply #24 on:** January 02, 2007, 11:24:27 AM »

That's what I have only it's not widescreen (didn't like that some pages don't display properly) & mine is the 19" 2 MS response. Good LCD for a good price. My model is the AL1916

Nomak · « **Reply #25 on:** January 02, 2007, 07:16:30 PM »

I did buy the monitor I linked to. I am very happy with it. Glad I didnt get another crt to be honest.

AH is beautiful @ 1440x900

Dave

Brenjen · « **Reply #26 on:** January 03, 2007, 07:05:19 AM »

How does the widescreen look on web pages? In AHII?

Nomak · « **Reply #27 on:** January 03, 2007, 07:02:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Brenjen
How does the widescreen look on web pages? In AHII?

Some pages look strange and some just look real wide lol. It only takes a few days to get used to.

I currently am flying 3 Different sims. AH2, Falcon4AF and BOB2WOV. All 3 of them support my native res of 1440x900. All of them look great. Like I said I am very, very happy with the purchase. Espically for 200 Bucks.

Dave

Brenjen · « **Reply #28 on:** January 03, 2007, 07:34:33 PM »

That's great man, glad you're happy with it.

Seafit · « **Reply #29 on:** January 08, 2007, 03:56:38 PM »

I'm not sure if anyone is still reading this thread but....can anyone give me their opinion on the Samsung 971P?

Spec is
19" (not widescreen)
Contrast ratio 1:1500
Resolution Native 1280 x 1024
Brightness 250cd/m2
response time 6ms <<<<
If I've read correctly 6ms may not be good enough for AH and I think I read somewhere that samsung achive the 6ms through some clever software (that doesn't always work the way it is supposed to - sorry, can't be more specific as I forgot where I read that).

My wife has been bugging me to ditch the huge 20" CRT for a while but if I do I want to make sure the replacement is good enough for AH.

Thanks for any replies