these days lcd monitors cost as much as flat crt monitors were in early days.. if we bought flat crt monitor that time at the arm and leg price.. then lcd monitor should sound expensive to us..

with all of us losing eye sight day by day and amount of time spent on computer consititutes the major part of daily hours.. lcd is really an eye saver else we expect to see blind programmers as MS

anyway what are some good 17inch LCD monitors from samsung, sony or BenQ??

no high gfx gaming here.. just daily use mostly..however i dont want something which will draw streaks across the screen when i scroll down....and should support medium gfx gaming too.. such as running NFSU underground

my laptop lcd runs that game well.. dont know what are the specs of my laptop lcd..

and obviously not expensive enought that i simply purchase another high performance notebook instead of goin for a lcd screen??

regular monitor have lines of lights running in alternate pattren on a monitor screen aka scanning..crt monitor has electron beam hit a phosper layer to genrate colours and lumiance for display..this genrate differnt radiations like low strength xrays and stuff..best eample of it is that if u work six hours continus on crt monitor u will feel considerably tired compared to 6hours continus work on lcd.. bcuz of crt there was more wear and tear in ur vision cells and hence needs more repairs..since out body repairs itself when we rest or sleep

good explainations here

http://www.pctechguide.com/06crtmon.htm - http://www.pctechguide.com/06crtmon.htm

no i dont do much programming tho but i have seen a lot lcd monitors which do not blur.. i think they r are the newer ones with very high refresh rates.. near real time like crt..

i went to a computer store specialized in selling laptops and lcd displays and saw no display which blurs.. even the lcd of my laptop does not have any such problem.. i think that problem with lcd is gone like a year or so ago and only exisit in cheaper not-so-popular chinese brands!! no offence to chinese!!

I use a 21" crt at 1600x1200 with a high end video card. Originally got it for flightsimming, but it's a great development tool. Can have a ton of windows showing stuff, not just sitting on the task bar.

My wife's been using a 15" lcd for a couple of years now. Does a lot of Pagemager stuff on it. Pretty good resolution at 1024x768 and a small foot print she likes a lot as her desk is usually crammed.

And of course she also likes it because it was easy to paint the frame of it to go with the room decore

u can shell out an old imac box.. throw the crt and the chips.. fix a lcd in it with a pc main board and components.. and there u go. a iPC

something similar here!!
http://www.hitechmods.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=16 - http://www.hitechmods.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Re views&file=index&req=showcontent&id=16

-boRg- wrote: The problem I find with LCD monitors is that they often blur slightly as they can not refresh fast enough. This is OK in most use, but for programming it can be a problem as when you scroll through code looking for an error it makes the text look slightly blured as you scroll. This can course you bad eyestrain if like me you spend half your life scrolling through lines of code loooking for an error in your code. I would suggest before you buy the monitor is to find one on display somewhere, load up a text file and try scrolling or dragging it around the screen and see if the text blurs, if it does and you do allot of programming you maybe better buying an old type CRT monitor.

I don't think that is too much of an issue anymore, Sure some time ago most LCD's had a refresh of 15-29ms but today you can get some under 16ms which will not blurr the screen anymore. If I take a page of code and scroll like crazy it looks like CRT now.

Every LCD I've used is inferior to a CRT. I don't bother with LCD's because even if they are up to par (which I'm sure they are by now since I've checked), you can still get a far superiour CRT for the money you spend.

The only LCD's I've seen that compare to good CRTs are 2~3 thousand dollars or more. I've got enough space on my desk for that price, and I live in the most expensive area in Seoul, which isn't cheap. We've got a way to go before LCDs reach near CRTs in the price category.

For years I used to advise people buying PC's that they should put money into buying the CRT at the expense of other PC components as everything else would get cheaper, but CRT prices were stable so they'd get more life out of the investment.

Now CRT prices are pretty cheap and I advise that for Bang-for-the-Buck, go with a CRT instead of an LCD unless your space situation is critical.

todays all lcd ships under 20ms infact average lcd's are 16ms or less.. pretty good enough to do everything.. even watching high motion movies and games..

my problem is that i spend too much time of pc.. beside that a lot of newer feather light compact furniture cant bear the weight of crt's

tho i spend most of my time on laptop so never botherd for a desktop lcd but now i think its time for crt to go..lcd welcome..

thanks to my father working for a korean company.. i can get 25% off on their products..

on purhcase of 17 or 19 inch lcd i will easily enough to buy me a 256mb gfx card if mood strikes for some serious gaming tho im not a gaming fan

when we first bought my own pc..it was a pentium 3 600mhz..one of the fastest of those time.. with 8MB gfx, 64MB ram and 10 GB hard disk..52x cdrom, etc costed $1000 USD approx..this computer was not for gaming at all.. infact it never ran any games properly.. no even need for speed 2 or 3

today we can buy a mid range pentium 4 PC with a good gfx card and a lcd monitor for under $1000 USD

Proof:

p4 2.8 ghz with mobo integrated lan and sound, 512MB pc3200 ram, 80GB 7200rpm HD, 52x CD-RW/DVD combo, fancy mid tower with 380Watt power supply, 128MB MSI Nvida gfx card, 56K moden, etc etc = $512 USD

17inch high refresh rate lcd monitor = $423 USD

if u are not an intel loyal.. u can squeeze more performance and gaming by using Athlon 64 3200+ without spending any extra buck $..

optionally high performance high dissipation heat sink $20

total $955 USD

who says lcd was exepensive

remaining $45 usd for a cheap beer party

today when i look back at the computer catalouges from early 90's and late 80's .. and advertisement such 386, 8MB ram, 300MB hard disk, 16 colour display etc etc for only $3750.. sound like a extremely nonsence dumb joke

the boss wrote: todays all lcd ships under 20ms infact average lcd's are 16ms or less.. pretty good enough to do everything.. even watching high motion movies and games..

Unfortunately not true, at least not here in the US. Most LCD that ship are still budget 15" or 17" with a refresh of 23-27ms, those that get sold with a complete system. The problem is that some companies like Best Buy or Circuit City seem to make more money on the $200 LCD's so the sales people push them and too many ppl still believe them. I hope that the trend will go down though, consider it for a LCD TV use for HDTV programming. But the large LCD screens (42" +) cost a fortune even compared to some Plasma, and I'd always take a large LCD over Plasma, cause I am a lazy bum forgetting to turn the TV off and burning in a logo or something. 

well cheap lcd are not popular here...u hardly find any one selling them.. majority sells the market repyutated brands like samsung, sony and benq