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Patrick <Patrick@none.com> writes:

> On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:17:57 +0000, Stan Bischof wrote:
>
>> notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The best recommendation is to go to a real live shop where you can try
>>>> them out and look at the pictures.......
>>> 
>>> Yep.  Nothing like a plain ol' viewing test to see what's what.
>>> 
>>> I haven't been in some time, but I know plasma TVs were once atrocious.
>>>  Extremely limited viewing cone.  This has probably changed.  I'd stick
>>> with LCD technology.
>>> 
>>> 
>> for the moment perhaps, but if you really want good viewing angles you
>> want an LED screen - and I don't mean the so-called "led" screens that
>> are really just an led backlight for an LCD.
>> 
>> LED screens can approach 180 deg viewing angle- far more than plasma or
>> LCD
>> 
>> Stan
>
> I think the next screen I buy I'll look for a higher refresh rate.
> Perhaps 80hz or even 100hz instead of the normal 60hz.
> Hard to find but I'm sure they exist.

I strongly recommend staying away from CRTs.
For computer work an LCD beats a CRT to death.

As far as "refresh rate" on an LCD:

  The closest  equivalent to  a refresh  rate on an  LCD monitor  is its
  frame rate, which is often locked  at 60 frame/s. But this is rarely a
  problem, because  the only part of  an LCD monitor  that could produce
  CRT-like  flicker—its  backlight—typically   operates  at  around  200
  Hz.  Different   operating  systems  set  the   default  refresh  rate
  differently.  Microsoft Windows 95  and Windows  98 (First  and Second
  Editions) set the  refresh rate to the highest  rate that they believe
  the  display supports.  Windows  NT-based operating  systems, such  as
  Windows 2000 and its descendants Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows
  7, set the  default refresh rate to a  "conservative" rate, usually 60
  Hz. The many variations of Linux  usually set a refresh rate chosen by
  the  user during  setup of  the  display manager  (although a  default
  option   is   usually  included   with   xfree86).  Some   full-screen
  applications, including some games,  allow the user to reconfigure the
  refresh rate before  entering full-screen mode, but most  default to a
  "conservative" resolution  and refresh rate  and let you  increase the
  settings in the options.

For an LCD you shop for resolution and size.
I'm currently at 20.5 inches and 1600x1200.
(DELL).

I wouldn't mind 24 inches or even 30 but anything less than
the vertical 1200 is out of the question.


-- 
Dan Espen

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Monitors Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-05-20 05:52 -0700
  Re: Monitors David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-05-20 17:29 +0200
    Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-05-20 15:35 +0000
      Re: Monitors Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-06-01 17:17 +0000
        Re: Monitors Patrick <Patrick@none.com> - 2012-06-01 18:58 +0000
          Re: Monitors Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-06-01 19:09 +0000
            Re: Monitors Patrick <0001patrick@gmail.com> - 2012-06-01 23:35 +0000
            Re: Monitors Patrick <0001patrick@gmail.com> - 2012-06-01 23:47 +0000
          Re: Monitors Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-06-01 15:11 -0400
            Re: Monitors David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-06-03 19:00 +0200
              Re: Monitors Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-06-03 14:01 -0400
                Re: Monitors David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-06-03 23:10 +0200
                Re: Monitors Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-06-03 19:06 -0400
        Re: Monitors Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2012-06-02 04:51 +0000
          Re: Monitors unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-06-02 05:36 +0000
          Re: Monitors The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-02 10:41 +0100
          Re: Monitors Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-06-04 14:27 +0000
            Re: Monitors Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-04 17:23 +0200
              Re: Monitors Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-06-04 15:31 +0000
                Re: Monitors David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-06-05 09:14 +0200
                Re: Monitors unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-06-05 15:46 +0000
              Re: Monitors J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-04 15:41 +0000
                Re: Monitors Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-04 18:27 +0200
                Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-06-04 17:00 +0000
                Re: Monitors Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-06-04 14:14 -0400
                Re: Monitors unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-06-04 18:17 +0000
                Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-06-04 18:58 +0000
                Re: Monitors Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-06-04 16:33 -0400
                Re: Monitors unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-06-04 21:17 +0000
                Re: Monitors Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-06-04 20:52 +0000
        Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-06-02 12:36 +0000
          Re: Monitors TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2012-06-02 11:59 -0400
            Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-06-02 17:34 +0000
              Re: Monitors TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2012-06-02 15:40 -0400
              Re: Monitors The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-02 23:45 +0100
                Re: Monitors Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-03 00:46 +0200
                Re: Monitors The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-02 23:52 +0100
                Re: Monitors Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-03 00:54 +0200
                Re: Monitors The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-03 00:08 +0100
                Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-06-03 02:52 +0000
                Re: Monitors The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-03 13:08 +0100
                Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-06-03 13:10 +0000
                Re: Monitors Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-06-03 09:57 -0400
                Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-06-03 14:25 +0000
                Re: Monitors Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-03 10:05 +0200
                Re: Monitors TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2012-06-03 08:00 -0400
                Re: Monitors unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-06-03 18:16 +0000
    Re: Monitors TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2012-05-24 11:10 -0400
      Re: Monitors David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-05-24 19:32 +0200
        Re: Monitors TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2012-05-25 20:09 -0400
          Re: Monitors J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-05-26 09:35 +0000
            Re: Monitors TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2012-05-26 08:07 -0400
              Re: Monitors David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-05-26 19:49 +0200
            Re: Monitors Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2012-05-26 16:42 +0000
  Re: Monitors notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-05-26 00:32 +0000

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