Kirk Wallace wrote: > A couple of video quality issues came to mind when I read this. > > Since HDMI is digital, would it be less prone to cable quality > variations? I would think if the cable quality got below a threshold, > you would see dropouts, but otherwise the picture would be perfect, or > as good as it gets. > > That seems like a good guess. HDMI should either give a perfect display, or absolute garbage squirming all over the screen. > I remember in the bad old days when I had a regular job in an office, > that monitor picture quality varied quite a bit. The monitor you bought > tended to depended on what you were going to use it for. For drafting, > If you spent a bunch of money, you could get a big monitor that could > place allot of clear (sharp) information all over the screen. So far, I > have only seen inexpensive LCD monitors and they don't seem to be very > good at displaying fine details. In other words, it seems I need to blow > up drawings larger on an LCD than on a CRT, to see the same details. Well, maybe I don't have any cheap LCDs, but as for spatial, I think they are MUCH better than shadow mask CRTs. Compared to a B&W CRT, or the Tektronix shadow mask-less CRT, the old shadow-mask tubes just never cut it. The problem was the pixels had no relation to the holes in the shadow mask. LCDs, when run at their native resolution, avoid this problem completely. The computer pixels exactly match the screen pixels, period. (If you ever mis-set the screen resolution so it has to interpolate, you will see the difference. They do amazingly well like that, but definitely sharpness suffers.)
On the other hand, for color gradation work, like processing very bright and detailed photographs, I think CRTs with all-analog intensity control still outperform LCDs. > If > I spent buckets of money on an LCD monitor, would CAD drawings look > better or would I just have a better movie experience? What do current > drafters, with big budgets, use? > I have a ViewSonic 19" LCD on my desktop system, and a smaller HP LCD on my main CNC control (CRTs were too heavy on the monitor arm). I'm not too impressed with the HP, some of the text on the EMC window is "fuzzy". Some kind of quirk on that HP. Everything else here is still CRTs, many are essentially dumpster finds. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
