Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 10/9/07, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been using a CRT display since forever and my current display is a
20 inch 1280x1024 display. It has good brightness, fast response and
great viewing angle.
I'm now testing a 24 inch widescreen 1920x1200 Samsung 245BW LCD. It has
decent brightness and good response (video plays fine) but the viewing
angle is miserable. Even small changes in my head position cause things
like title bars to blur and color contrasts either disappear or become
extreme at the edges.
Is something that is normal for an LCD display or is this just a poorly
^this
made monitor?
I have had a NEC 1850E flat-panel monitor for two or three years.
1280x1024. No problem with viewing angles +- 45 degrees horizontal or
vertical, as I now try moving around while watching it. Does the
Samsung monitor have one of the new-fangled shiny high-brightness
screens that reflect a lot of their surroundings? Supposed to be
better for TV and other video, but not so good for normal computer
stuff.
The screen has a matte finish. No reflection problems. But things like
green bars (the kind you see on Slashdot) turn black. I sit about two
feet from the monitor and the bottom stripes look like their normal
color compared to the CRT while the top stripes look black (well, more
like a really dark brown kind of). I have the monitor rather high up so
my direct line of sight is into the bottom third of the monitor. Doing
the math shows that the viewing angle changes about 30 degrees from the
bottom to the top of the screen when sitting at my normal position.
Looking at a completely uniform blue background (setting the desktop
background to a single color) actually looks like a gradient that is
dark at the top and lighter at the bottom.
I really want to go to a widescreen monitor that is at least as big as
my current CRT, but this LCD display isn't it.
Gus
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