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LCDs 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 i
by autoexec 3y ago
LCDs 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)