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Maybe I've never used good CRTs? They have always given me migraines. I was seriously considering whether I needed to give up on being a developer because I was
by huggah 14y ago
Maybe I've never used good CRTs? They have always given me migraines. I was seriously considering whether I needed to give up on being a developer because I wasn't sure I could continue to work with computers around the time LCDs started taking over.
LCDs still sometimes give me migraines (after 12+ hours), and there's a big difference between high-quality and low-quality monitors; but I would never go back. I also don't recall CRTs being better (in terms of color, DPI and resolution) than the good monitors I use today.
- flomo 14y agoYep, the average bundled CRT was pretty terrible and far below the average bundled LCD. The higher-end CRTs (Trinitrons etc) were great, but tended to wear out over time. I'm somewhat surprised that Raymond still has one that hasn't gone blurry, as I haven't seen a nicely working one in quite a while.
- aidenn0 14y agoTrinitrons look great when they are new, but wear out way too fast. I stick to shadowmask screens for that reason (and still use a nice CRT at home)
- rogerbinns 14y agoOne thing I noticed is that many Americans had their CRTs at a 60Hz refresh rate. That instantly hurt my eyes so bad I couldn't look at the screen for more than a few seconds without them hurting a lot. Yet the Americans were completely impervious to this. In Europe there was legislation mandating a minimum refresh rate of 72Hz and I ran all my monitors at 85Hz.