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Re: In the market for a new monitor

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On 2011-03-29, Lou <Nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>
> "Ross Ridge" <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message 
> news:imr1i6$irv$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca...
>> Ross Ridge pisze:
>>> All LCD panels have motion blur, and it's only worse on non-TN 
>>> panels
>>> which have higher response times.
>>
>> BrunoN Bluthgeld  <brunon99@removethispart.o2.pl> wrote:
>>>Which won't bother anyone other than people obsessing over bunch of
>>>numbers in equipment descriptions.
>>
>> It bothers me when everything looks smudged when the camera scrolls 
>> or
>> pans across a scene.  I realize that it's 2011 and most people take 
>> it
>> for granted and aren't bothered it by anymore, but that's not 
>> because
>> of any recent technological improvement in the displays.
>>
>> Ross Ridge
>>
> I agree.
> I held on to my CRT because of motion blur on LCD's I tested (that 
> were claimed not  to have it). Whenever I put the LCD connected to the 
> same PC as my CRT and moved a window with text, the text in the LCD 
> would blur too much to read, but not the CRT. Some LCD's would blur 
> less, but it still really bugged me and I did not won't an LCD.
> Then my CRT was dying and I saw a triple screen LCD setup. I was then 
> willing
> to try LCD for gaming if it was a triple screen setup.
> I have been using the LCD's for a while now and no longer annoyed by 
> the blur.
>
> One thing to think about with getting an LCD is that the larger it is, 
> the more graphics power you need to run it at its native resolution. 

How do you get on with three screens and older games? I have enough
trouble getting old games to run on one screen sometimes but I can't
imagine something like, say, Deus Ex knowing what the hell to do with
three screens!

If it works, it's a tempting prospect. I'd love to have that much
screen area.

-- 
-Toby
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Re: In the market for a new monitor Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> - 2011-03-29 21:39 +0100
  Re: In the market for a new monitor yaugin <yaugin@gmail.com> - 2011-03-29 19:22 -0700
  Re: In the market for a new monitor "Lou" <Nospam@nospam.net> - 2011-03-29 23:05 -0700

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