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Lcds were way better than the crts consumers had. Most desktop crts were absolutely massive and took up the entire desk. We had to install special drawers in ou
by kjkjadksj 3y ago
Lcds were way better than the crts consumers had. Most desktop crts were absolutely massive and took up the entire desk. We had to install special drawers in our desks that slid out and held a keyboard because there wasn’t room otherwise on most desks. The lcds that replaced them were far lighter, my grandparents could actually move them for once, they took up probably three inches of the desk, and they were bigger diagonally too with more io accepted.
For tvs flat screens only really started replacing crt and plasma when they were hd. Even a 720p tv looked a lot better than a crt and once again, was much lighter, was much bigger, and had way more io (early flatscreens had even more than today usually). Crts sucked, thats why everyone happily threw them to a curb.
- autoexec 3y agoLCDs were garbage at just about everything. It was so much worse when the screens were new, but even today I have yet to see an LCD screen that can display an image with even a single solid color accurately. Correctly representing an image on a screen is their one job and they still fail at it. See my reply here (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec#39670782 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec#39670782) for a list of just some of the ways LCD screens were worse than CRTs
- xcv123 3y ago> even today I have yet to see an LCD screen that can display an image with even a single solid color accurately Have you tried professional calibrated monitors? https://www.eizo.com/products/coloredge/ https://www.eizo.com/products/coloredge/
- autoexec 3y agoI doubt it. They aren't even terribly expensive.
- xcv123 3y agoWell those cost tens of thousands of dollars. But even a cheap (by comparison) Apple XDR display is properly calibrated and surpasses the color gamut of professional CRT monitors. (100% of DCI-P3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI-P3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI-P3)