[quinda]

I was fixing my nieces machine today - it was rather messed up after she went on a 'install everything that ever pops up' spree.

She has a CRT monitor. I remember when we gave it to her, it was a good monitor, but now I don't know how anyone could ever use one! It does 70Hz refresh rate, but you can still see the flicker, and even though it was supposed to be 'flatter, squarer tube' you can see the curve...

I think she'll be getting a TFT as a Christmas present.....

[CG Man]

The pros of a cheap TFT are they use a third of the power of a CRT, don't break desks and no radiation emitions and you get no headaches this is because a pixel only refreshes when it needs to rather than the whole lot being refreshed. A 60 hrtz screen has far less flicker than a 85hrtz CRT. Cons with cheap ones are slow pixel responce they change colour too slow and a bad viewing angle so the colour changes as you move your head. Also cheap TFTs can't show a very wide range of colour tone compared to a CRT.

For professional design, art or photography work try a Formac gallery TFT their perfect no matter what any designer will tell you at the time they came out they were the only TFT to out match a professional CRT monitor.