<!--QuoteBegin-Depot+May 13 2005, 09:07 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Depot @ May 13 2005, 09:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Go for the CRT.
Btw, degaussing reverses the effects that strong magnetic fields have caused. Do you have speakers or an electric motor in close vicinity to your monitor? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> dont forget power adapters also cause the shimmering effect on a crt.
Thaldarin and Taaketa, the reason why you are gettiung headaches from y9our CRT monitors is the phenomenom called "Static Jump"
Static Jump is basically an overthrow by the CRT tube, which can affect certain people's eyes. Best cures for solving Static Jump is a cheap pair of sunglasses.
How many LAN events have you been to where most people with CRTs are wearing sunglasses? Every single bloody one that I've been to, there have been uncountable amounts of people playing with sunglasses on.
People who are not generally affected by SJ are people wearing glasses, people wearing contact lenses (I can stare at my old and busted Fujitsu Siemens CRT for hours without getting a twinge of a headache), and, believe it or not, people with cataracts.
Basically, anything that can absorb excess energy is good at defeating SJ. Glasses>Contact Lenses>Cataracts when it comes to energy absorption. Sunglasses rule all, as that is what they are designed to do.
Basically, invest in a pair of cheap sunglasses, ones with blue tinted lenses are good for NS. Then get a good CRT, and you'll still have some money to put aside for that new uprade you've been promising yourself for...
Speaking of which, I need a new CRT soon. Everest reports mine as being made week 2, 2000!
I've never seen that a lan event but having said that most of the people I know at lan events have TFTs and shuttle systems... soo.. yeah <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> And also we had a competition at our local centre trying pitting a CRT against a TFT (I'll have to find out what they were) there was no visible difference.. apart from that the CRT had to be tweaked so it wasn't so dark.
(edit: Oh and I don't wear glasses or contacts.. so I must have catratacts <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->, and thats probaly true since my family has a history of it)
<!--QuoteBegin-Lt Patch+May 17 2005, 04:08 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lt Patch @ May 17 2005, 04:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Thaldarin and Taaketa, the reason why you are gettiung headaches from y9our CRT monitors is the phenomenom called "Static Jump"
Static Jump is basically an overthrow by the CRT tube, which can affect certain people's eyes. Best cures for solving Static Jump is a cheap pair of sunglasses.
How many LAN events have you been to where most people with CRTs are wearing sunglasses? Every single bloody one that I've been to, there have been uncountable amounts of people playing with sunglasses on.
People who are not generally affected by SJ are people wearing glasses, people wearing contact lenses (I can stare at my old and busted Fujitsu Siemens CRT for hours without getting a twinge of a headache), and, believe it or not, people with cataracts.
Basically, anything that can absorb excess energy is good at defeating SJ. Glasses>Contact Lenses>Cataracts when it comes to energy absorption. Sunglasses rule all, as that is what they are designed to do.
Basically, invest in a pair of cheap sunglasses, ones with blue tinted lenses are good for NS. Then get a good CRT, and you'll still have some money to put aside for that new uprade you've been promising yourself for...
Speaking of which, I need a new CRT soon. Everest reports mine as being made week 2, 2000! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> lol what
Heres an example of how long it takes to burn an image into a tft.
About 5 years ago a new shopping center, cinema, indoor ski sloop opened up near me in milton keynes, they had tft tv monitors all around it, however they were showing a very very faint "Xcape" (thats the name of the place) logo, kinda like a water mark on each of these screens, so we are looking at about 20 hours a day activity, with the same image on all the time, and how long did it take the image to get burnt on? well about 2-3 years depending on the monitor, i'd say thats pretty good going since no one is gonna have the same image on that much if they are just using a computer.
I just got a TFT monitor for an early birthday present, 20m response time. You can play games with it, but you get a kind of cheap motion-blur effect from looking around. I'll refrain from commenting more until I've tried it on my PC (using my dad's right now).
The good thing is though, it has digital-in port so even if I buy another monitor for proper gaming, I can keep this as a second monitor <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I'd say crt with the rest. I got a LCD, their picture is really high quality and crisp, and while being small their easy to take around town alot. But some major problems occur with lighting. When you play bright light/dark light games, it dosent show every little detail like it should. You cant see small changes in whites or blacks and it gets really annoying when you have to (more often than you think, I can assure you)
Now, I have a 27 inch tv, too bad its not plasma or I would be in heaven <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I was just wondering about this myself. I had a sony trinitron crt when they first came out and then it finally died on me. Wow, that was when a pentium 700mhz I think was top of the line. cuz I got a 550 at the time. Anyways, that baby never did me wrong. And then this weekend I was at my friends house to see his new TFT 21 inch. Beautiful screen and World of wacraft and NS looked great. LOOKED great. Once I put the celerity lerk to work, I could feel the ghosting horribly. I checked, its a 25ms response samsung. So I guess that explains the ghosting. My wife said when we reassemble the pc she wants a crt just cuz lcds we usually see got the horrible gray "blackness" or fade from different angles.
<!--QuoteBegin-gyMe+May 14 2005, 02:29 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (gyMe @ May 14 2005, 02:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I just purchased a 2005fpw from Dell today, mainly because Dell is having a sale and I got it for $400. Here's a link to all the coupon goodness <a href='http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?threadid=100919&postid=1183739#post1183739' target='_blank'>http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.ph...739#post1183739</a>. Won't be here until later this week, hopefully I won't be disappointed. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I went for the same deal, and got mine yesterday. It's awesome, though I'm still getting used to widescreen. CS:S and NS have never looked so good.
It's not perfect (16ms response time, though I can't notice any ghosting, and some backlight bleeding issues) but the cool features it has make up for it (usb2.0 hub, 4 different inputs, picture-in-picture, picture-by-picture, and you can turn it vertically). Anyway, LCDs just look cooler than CRTs.
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Btw, degaussing reverses the effects that strong magnetic fields have caused. Do you have speakers or an electric motor in close vicinity to your monitor? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
dont forget power adapters also cause the shimmering effect on a crt.
Untill tft's are faster I am crt all the way...
Static Jump is basically an overthrow by the CRT tube, which can affect certain people's eyes. Best cures for solving Static Jump is a cheap pair of sunglasses.
How many LAN events have you been to where most people with CRTs are wearing sunglasses? Every single bloody one that I've been to, there have been uncountable amounts of people playing with sunglasses on.
People who are not generally affected by SJ are people wearing glasses, people wearing contact lenses (I can stare at my old and busted Fujitsu Siemens CRT for hours without getting a twinge of a headache), and, believe it or not, people with cataracts.
Basically, anything that can absorb excess energy is good at defeating SJ. Glasses>Contact Lenses>Cataracts when it comes to energy absorption. Sunglasses rule all, as that is what they are designed to do.
Basically, invest in a pair of cheap sunglasses, ones with blue tinted lenses are good for NS. Then get a good CRT, and you'll still have some money to put aside for that new uprade you've been promising yourself for...
Speaking of which, I need a new CRT soon. Everest reports mine as being made week 2, 2000!
(edit: Oh and I don't wear glasses or contacts.. so I must have catratacts <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->, and thats probaly true since my family has a history of it)
Static Jump is basically an overthrow by the CRT tube, which can affect certain people's eyes. Best cures for solving Static Jump is a cheap pair of sunglasses.
How many LAN events have you been to where most people with CRTs are wearing sunglasses? Every single bloody one that I've been to, there have been uncountable amounts of people playing with sunglasses on.
People who are not generally affected by SJ are people wearing glasses, people wearing contact lenses (I can stare at my old and busted Fujitsu Siemens CRT for hours without getting a twinge of a headache), and, believe it or not, people with cataracts.
Basically, anything that can absorb excess energy is good at defeating SJ. Glasses>Contact Lenses>Cataracts when it comes to energy absorption. Sunglasses rule all, as that is what they are designed to do.
Basically, invest in a pair of cheap sunglasses, ones with blue tinted lenses are good for NS. Then get a good CRT, and you'll still have some money to put aside for that new uprade you've been promising yourself for...
Speaking of which, I need a new CRT soon. Everest reports mine as being made week 2, 2000! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
lol what
Heres an example of how long it takes to burn an image into a tft.
About 5 years ago a new shopping center, cinema, indoor ski sloop opened up near me in milton keynes, they had tft tv monitors all around it, however they were showing a very very faint "Xcape" (thats the name of the place) logo, kinda like a water mark on each of these screens, so we are looking at about 20 hours a day activity, with the same image on all the time, and how long did it take the image to get burnt on? well about 2-3 years depending on the monitor, i'd say thats pretty good going since no one is gonna have the same image on that much if they are just using a computer.
The good thing is though, it has digital-in port so even if I buy another monitor for proper gaming, I can keep this as a second monitor <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Now, I have a 27 inch tv, too bad its not plasma or I would be in heaven <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
if it has that then its ok.
I had a sony trinitron crt when they first came out and then it finally died on me.
Wow, that was when a pentium 700mhz I think was top of the line. cuz I got a 550 at the time.
Anyways, that baby never did me wrong.
And then this weekend I was at my friends house to see his new TFT 21 inch.
Beautiful screen and World of wacraft and NS looked great.
LOOKED great.
Once I put the celerity lerk to work, I could feel the ghosting horribly.
I checked, its a 25ms response samsung. So I guess that explains the ghosting.
My wife said when we reassemble the pc she wants a crt just cuz lcds we usually see got the horrible gray "blackness" or fade from different angles.
I went for the same deal, and got mine yesterday. It's awesome, though I'm still getting used to widescreen. CS:S and NS have never looked so good.
It's not perfect (16ms response time, though I can't notice any ghosting, and some backlight bleeding issues) but the cool features it has make up for it (usb2.0 hub, 4 different inputs, picture-in-picture, picture-by-picture, and you can turn it vertically). Anyway, LCDs just look cooler than CRTs.