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Frank Peters posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:59:41 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> I really should leave this alone but I just can't resist. |
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Likewise... =;^/ |
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> Actually, on this machine (with the keyboard problem) I still use a CRT. |
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> The reason is that I do a lot of image processing and I need cheap color |
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> fidelity. With an LCD, high fidelity color comes with an equally high |
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> price, but equally proficient CRT monitors are far less expensive. This |
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> CRT is a HUGE monster that weighs over a hundred pounds, but for the |
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> same price I could never find an equal LCD display. |
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Consider LED-backed LCDs (often simply referred to as LED rather than |
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LCD). They're a bit more expensive than CFL-backed LCDs (what people |
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normally refer to with the term LCD), but are *MUCH* more energy |
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efficient (makes a big difference here in Phoenix, where the AC is often |
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run a couple hours mid-day even in January, and most of the year you're |
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paying for electricity feeding the monitor twice, once to operate the |
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monitor, again to operate the AC to pump the heat produced back |
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outside)... |
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And more to the point for you, generally MUCH higher color fidelity. |
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I kind of discovered that by accident, replacing a 24-inch LCD that got |
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cracked with a 22-inch LED at about the same price-point a couple years |
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later. The LED brought out colors I never new existed on the LCD! I |
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don't expect to ever go back, and in fact, have been wanting to upgrade |
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my dual monitors to 37-42-inch (the biggest I can fit, here), but put it |
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off as I wasn't going to settle for LCD any longer, and dual LED monitors |
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at the size I wanted was simply beyond my current budget. |
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Of course you'll also want to be sure that they're real 8-bit-per-channel- |
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color, not 6-bit, which is what many of the cheap ones are, but LEDs |
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should /generally/ get you beyond the 6-bit-per-channel cheap range as |
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well. (10-bit-per-color-channel is available, but you *DO* pay thru the |
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nose for them! It's possible that's what you need, but perhaps not. I |
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know *I* was seriously surprised at the quality of the LEDs I rather |
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accidentally stumbled into.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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