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

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!!