BandwidthHogg
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If you go to any gaming forums accross the net, including this one, when somebody says they want an LCD, all you get is a bunch of LCD bashers going on and on about how LCDs suck and CRTs are so much better. They complain that LCDs have low response times, are blurry, aren't very bright, have washed out color, etc.
While all of these were completely true with older model LCDs, they aren't a problem with newer LCDs. I thought long and hard before I decided to get rid of my old CRT and move to an LCD. Its picture clarity, brightness, and color vibrance blows away my old CRT. I viewed them side-by-side to compare, and the CRT's image seemed so dull after looking at the LCD. Plus, my eyes just felt so relieved when I got my LCD. My CRT was causing me so much eye-strain and I didn't realize it until I got an LCD.
Just for reference, I had a Samsung Syncmaster 997DF CRT so it was a good CRT.
There are only 2 advantages I see to CRTs. Number 1 is price, Number 2 is resolution scaling, which is good for gamers because a lot of gamers play at 1024x768 which wont look so good on an LCD with a native resolution of 1280x1024. On the other hand, on both CRTs I've owned, the desktop and text got very blurry (in comparison to an LCD) if I ran it on anything higher than 1024x768.
If you have a good graphics card, you won't have to play on 1024x768 anyways, you will be able to handle 1280x1024. Being that LCDs no longer suffer from response time issues, poor color quality, poor brightness, and blurred text, why is it that gamers are still so insistant on CRTs and will bash LCDs and anybody who buys them?
While all of these were completely true with older model LCDs, they aren't a problem with newer LCDs. I thought long and hard before I decided to get rid of my old CRT and move to an LCD. Its picture clarity, brightness, and color vibrance blows away my old CRT. I viewed them side-by-side to compare, and the CRT's image seemed so dull after looking at the LCD. Plus, my eyes just felt so relieved when I got my LCD. My CRT was causing me so much eye-strain and I didn't realize it until I got an LCD.
Just for reference, I had a Samsung Syncmaster 997DF CRT so it was a good CRT.
There are only 2 advantages I see to CRTs. Number 1 is price, Number 2 is resolution scaling, which is good for gamers because a lot of gamers play at 1024x768 which wont look so good on an LCD with a native resolution of 1280x1024. On the other hand, on both CRTs I've owned, the desktop and text got very blurry (in comparison to an LCD) if I ran it on anything higher than 1024x768.
If you have a good graphics card, you won't have to play on 1024x768 anyways, you will be able to handle 1280x1024. Being that LCDs no longer suffer from response time issues, poor color quality, poor brightness, and blurred text, why is it that gamers are still so insistant on CRTs and will bash LCDs and anybody who buys them?