CRT has some life left in it yet
Every now and then I toy with the idea of joining the 21st Century and getting a new-fangled TFT monitor for my desktop but keep finding reasons why not to. I currently have a 19" flat-screen Mitsubishi Diamondtron CRT monitor - seemingly one of the best monitors ever to be produced. I don't like downgrading just for the joy of getting something newer (say like selling a MK5 Golf for a MK6, that would be silly).
I also don't have an unlimited budget which restricts the contenders. So what are my requirements? Games, shooters specifically. Second to that, probably photo editing. Something that my CRT can handle quite happily with no side-effects but are at complete polars for what TFTs can handle - it's one or the other folks. It seems my requirements are:
The colour gamut is handled by professional screens using IPS based panels although these suffer from a slow response time so fail on point two. TN panels are best for point two but suck at point one.
No TFTs are especially quick to respond to updates with TN being the better but even these have had "tweaks" made to them to try and make this acceptable. Instead what we see is inverse ghosting from over-drive (where the crystals are pushed extra hard to make them move quick - resulting them in over-shooting their destination). And all this pre-processing to make the displays update neatly takes time which leads to a delay in the picture getting there at all. One of the "best" Dell screens take 70ms to update the screen. That's over double my ping! A sure fire way to lose a computer game.
I'm hearing good things about OLED, but considering a 15" OLED TV is still £2,000 I don't think this will be viable for quite some time.
Guess I'll be sticking with my desk hog then.
I also don't have an unlimited budget which restricts the contenders. So what are my requirements? Games, shooters specifically. Second to that, probably photo editing. Something that my CRT can handle quite happily with no side-effects but are at complete polars for what TFTs can handle - it's one or the other folks. It seems my requirements are:
- >= 96% Adobe RGB colour gamut
- Capable of displaying a 75Hz rapidly changing image without ghosting
- Does not suffer from inverse-ghosting from overdrive on the crystals
- No input lag
The colour gamut is handled by professional screens using IPS based panels although these suffer from a slow response time so fail on point two. TN panels are best for point two but suck at point one.
No TFTs are especially quick to respond to updates with TN being the better but even these have had "tweaks" made to them to try and make this acceptable. Instead what we see is inverse ghosting from over-drive (where the crystals are pushed extra hard to make them move quick - resulting them in over-shooting their destination). And all this pre-processing to make the displays update neatly takes time which leads to a delay in the picture getting there at all. One of the "best" Dell screens take 70ms to update the screen. That's over double my ping! A sure fire way to lose a computer game.
I'm hearing good things about OLED, but considering a 15" OLED TV is still £2,000 I don't think this will be viable for quite some time.
Guess I'll be sticking with my desk hog then.