I asked a computer consultant about this and he said it is most often the quality of your video card and not the monitor. I don't know much about them only that most people buy cheap ones, except for the gamers and geeks, who know it is worth the extra $$$ to get a top of the line video card.
Garnet On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 02:24, Minni M wrote: > <-----Original Message-----> > From: John Rigby > Sent: 5/29/2004 7:04:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>Computer-eye > > > Hi Minnie and folks, > THIS one is worth repeating in a clickable form: > http://www.vestibular.org/computer.html > > Now we can all feel sorry for those rich people with 21" monitors! :-) > ========== > > Also get a load of this, which shows that LCDs can be as bad or worse. > http://www.cloanto.com/users/mcb/19960719lcd.html > > Regardless of the cloanto conjectures, and despite what the > theoretical establishment claims, the practical experience of > photosensitives, including myself, is: > > It hasn't to do with CRT vs. LCD (either can be bad or good, > depending... > > Nor with electromagnetic fields (my old 14" 1990 non-interlaced CRT > emits EMFs, yet it did not cause me the terrible symptoms that my 15" > Samsung LCD caused. The latter has a quite high brightness & contrast > rating, and even dimming & color correction failed to help. I also > acquired a 17" top quality NEC CRT (year 2002 complete with > anti-static screen etc. etc.). It didn't run higher than 75 hz perhaps > because of my limited video card. Anyway, no matter how much I dimmed > it or color corrected it, it was terrible. Worse than the 15" LCD. I > suspect that was mainly due to its large size, as well as its > brightness. But the old 14 incher, which does NOT boast low emissions, > was the most tolerable of all for me. I also had a KDS 15" CRT which > was quite bright, but had a 13.8" viewing area. And that was more > tolerable than the 15" LCD. So from this I infer that the most > problematic monitors for people with sensitive nerves, are large ones > (even if they're dim). I got similar feedba! ck from other > photosensitive people. They seem to find laptops best. Most people who > are affected, have eye trouble or headaches, dizziness, etc. However, > it caused me way worse symptoms, such as terrible UTIs including > stabbing back pains, bone pain, hip pain, terribly drained/achy > muscles, speeded metabolism, tooth tingling, and a host of more stuff. > I used to think I had repetitive strain injury from typing, but now I > realize it was really the monitor draining me. Even the best monitors > drain me upon extended viewing, and I believe the fault may be > fluorescence (IMO, researcher John Ott is on target). Color correction > fails to help me, and UV shields also fail to completely help me. > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at > http://www.mail2world.com > > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
