>I've seen several LCD's that require a fairly steep change in angle to >make a difference in viewing. Besides, I thought CRT's were recommended >to be changed out every 3-5 years, while LCD's have a longer lifespan.
Maybe you should start by measuring your own visual acuity? It makes no sense to get a monitor that exceeds the specifications of its user. If you observe that it takes "a fairly steep change in angle to make a difference in viewing" then you probably don't need the same kind of monitor as a person who can detect changes of less than a deltaE. (1 DeltaE is the smallest difference an "average" person can detect.) A factory-fresh, $5000, Barco CRT would have a deltaE of under 1 over the entire surface of the screen. That is why it is expensive. At Tom's hardware I see that they do test the deltaE of many LCD monitors. For LCDs they claim that a deltaE under 2 is good: "all but undetectable to the user." I know many people would not find that acceptable. Tom's also plots the image brightness over the screen surface. Some monitors they think are good have only 65% brightness at the edges (center = 100%). Now I wonder how a monitor with that kind of difference can be said to have a good deltaE. Having the brightness drop off by nearly a stop from center to edge ain't good in by book. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
