What screen?

[jam1et]

Ok my geek comrades, was wondering if you can help.

I tend to support mainly workhorse systems for data bashing so graphics isnt really an issue, therefore I dont know much about modern screens. I know TFT used to be inferior quality as compared to CRT but have improved over recent years. My mate has £250 to spend. What do you reccommend? He plays a lot of games which often have dark backgrounds and fast frame rates (e.g Hitman3 etc) so perhaps CRT would be best. However, he is also lacking in desk space. He's thinking of either a 19" flatscreen CRT or 17" TFT. Which would suit him better? Any particular brand/model he should look at?

[stevieb]

I have ordered this for my home PC.

www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=43844

I prefer CRT's at the moment, as i do a lot of CAD work..

Steve

[warmfuzzies]

Sony Sony Sony.
Crt, TFT is not for gaming, as the refresh rates still aren't fast enough to prevent ghosting. The rates quoted are normally only for a 70% change, and on black to white and vice versa. Colours can and do take longer to refresh. If you go TFT (please don't) you need at teh worst a 16ms refresh, 12ms is the quickest I know of at the mo' . But they cost.....

17" or if you can afford 19" crt and preferably Sony. I've also used Iiyama, and had 1 year of returns and hassle with new monitor being replace 4 times by second hand gear, I will not be using Iiyama ever again.
I've also just bought a Belinea for my daughter, 17" £100 85hz at 1280x1024 excellent value at the low end.

Just my experiences BTW YMMV.

kevin.

[jam1et]

Stevieb - it looks good. Just out of his price range though. Plus a 22" wouldnt fit on his desk for defo - he's pushing it with a 19".

Kevin. Just as I thought, I didnt think refresh rates on TFT's were still quite good enough yet for gaming.

>> Edited by jam1et on Friday 7th May 16:40

[warmfuzzies]

Oh one last thing, Trinitron is Sony, diamondtron is mitsibushi licenced from Sony, and Iiyama I think use Mitsibushi tubes in the main, long winded but there in the end.

Kevin.

[TheExcession]

warmfuzzies said:

17" or if you can afford 19" crt and preferably Sony. I've also used Iiyama, and had 1 year of returns and hassle with new monitor being replace 4 times by second hand gear, I will not be using Iiyama ever again. kevin.

I have 4 Iiyama monitors al 19" Vision Master Pro 450, and all about 5 years old now. All working flawlessly. Excellent colour depth and still very sharp image quality.

I've also use Sony Trinitrons quite a bit, the colour mask has shifted a bit on mine which means in the bottom left and top right corners the colours are out of alignment.

Can't fault Iiyama tho, strange how people get different experiences.