And all the more, people are basically forced to buy LCDs because the industry wants to kick CRTs out. Still, CRTs have a colour accuracy, video image quality and a flexibility other technologies can only dream of.
New, High quality LCD monitors now match CRT's for available color gamut. One of the best graphics CRT's on the market was the NEC-Mitsubishi RDF225WG. it offered 93.3% of the NTSC color gamut.
The newer Dell 2407WFP-HC LCD offers 92% of the NTSC colors; an imperceptible difference in quality.
While your claim that 'the typical' LCD doesn't come close (@72%), is true - there are now high quality LCD's that give just as good colors as the best CRT monitor. Its the market that's steering away from the large, heavy CRT's, not the industry.
I upgraded a Viewsonic aperture grille CRT to a Dell 2005fpw and the CRT looks like ass in comparison. A good S-IPS monitor beats a good aperture grille CRT hand down, there may be super photo-lab quality CRT's in the thousands of dollars that are better but LCD's are the big winner for anything under $1000. TN lcd's only look worse than aperture grille CRT's, S-IPS easily has them beat in every area except framerate.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
w00t @ Apr 15th 2008 4:45AM
Why the hell are they still putting VGA video on these things?!
Nobody buys CRTs anymore....
Joe_Templeman @ Apr 15th 2008 5:10AM
You realise that most LCDs and Projectors have VGA as well right?!
xSwamp @ Apr 15th 2008 8:41AM
and that many crt screens have DVI as well?
giuliop @ Apr 15th 2008 9:11AM
And all the more, people are basically forced to buy LCDs because the industry wants to kick CRTs out.
Still, CRTs have a colour accuracy, video image quality and a flexibility other technologies can only dream of.
rcappo @ Apr 15th 2008 9:39AM
I have switched everything in my home to HDMI/DVI. I won't be buying another VGA laptop anytime soon.
But then again, I also switched to Linux and would need to change out the hard drive for a SSD.
But other than those two things, this computer is close to what I am looking for.
Steve A. @ Apr 15th 2008 12:19PM
giuliop @
New, High quality LCD monitors now match CRT's for available color gamut. One of the best graphics CRT's on the market was the NEC-Mitsubishi RDF225WG. it offered 93.3% of the NTSC color gamut.
The newer Dell 2407WFP-HC LCD offers 92% of the NTSC colors; an imperceptible difference in quality.
While your claim that 'the typical' LCD doesn't come close (@72%), is true - there are now high quality LCD's that give just as good colors as the best CRT monitor. Its the market that's steering away from the large, heavy CRT's, not the industry.
Eh @ Apr 15th 2008 6:39PM
@giuliop
I upgraded a Viewsonic aperture grille CRT to a Dell 2005fpw and the CRT looks like ass in comparison. A good S-IPS monitor beats a good aperture grille CRT hand down, there may be super photo-lab quality CRT's in the thousands of dollars that are better but LCD's are the big winner for anything under $1000. TN lcd's only look worse than aperture grille CRT's, S-IPS easily has them beat in every area except framerate.