LCD monitor

[Joel Rees]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:10:09 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>>If I were buying a new monitor now and had the money, I'd pay extra to
>>get a good one.
>
> The LG 24MB56HQ-B is a PITA. I bought one.
>
> "VGA1", the CRT, is "RightOf" "HDMI2", the LCD.
>
> The LCD is flickering, the CRT is not flickering. It's not a mistake,
> it isn't the other way around, it's really the LCD that is flickering.
>
> The LCD has got could and pale colours. It's not just missing
> saturation, wrong contrast or missing red. The CRT's colours are more
> powerful.
>
> The LCD's pixels are noticeable, it's like taking a look at a screen
> tone, apart from this the image is concave. Sure, the CRT is really
> convex, but it provides all kind of adjustments, to get rid of an
> unpleasant image, while the LCD doesn't provide options to get rid of
> the annoying concave impression.
>
> Last but not least, one pixel is dead, always black and it's an
> annoying eyecatcher, since if I move my head, the dead pixel is like an
> animation.
>
> My aged, worn out CRT has still a much better image quality, than
> the brand new LCD. Just the image quality of an elCheapest TV I own is
> less good.
>
> As long as I don't need perfect adjusted colours, I prefer to "dim" the
> monitor. This could be easier done for the CRT, since dimming the LCD
> makes the colour issue of the LCD even more worse. Especially the LCD
> needs dimming, more than the CRT does.
>
> Font rendering is a matter of taste, by choosing blur LCD settings, it
> is halfway ok. It's better on the CRT, but I suspect by choosing
> another theme, different font settings, the LCD is as good as the
> worn out CRT, excepted that getting rid of the flickering and screen
> tone effect of the background is impossible.
>

Check your drivers, the selected refresh rate, and the resolution.

If none of those help, send it back. You don't need the eye-strain.

-- 
Joel Rees

One of these days I'll get someone to pay me
to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C.
Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef,
run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define,
and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast.
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