DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

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Sun Jan 16 07:10:17 PST 2011


Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:56:34 +0100, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:

> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>> news:igt2pl$2u6e$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> On 1/15/11 2:23 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> I still use CRTs (one big reason being that I hate the idea of only
>>>> being able to use one resolution)
>>>
>>> I'd read some post of Nick and think "hmm, now that's a guy who
>>> follows only his own beat" but this has to take the cake. From here
>>> on, I wouldn't be surprised if you found good reasons to use whale fat
>>> powered candles instead of lightbulbs.
>>>
>>>
>> Heh :)  Well, I can spend no money and stick with my current 21" CRT
>> that already suits my needs (that I only paid $25 for in the first
>> place), or I can spend a hundred or so dollars to lose the ability to
>> have a decent looking picture at more than one resolution and then say
>> "Gee golly whiz! That sure is a really flat panel!!". Whoop-dee-doo.
>> And popularity and trendyness are just non-issues.
> 
> Actually nearly all lcds below 600$-800$ price point (tn-panels) have
> quite inferior display of colors compared to el cheapo crt's, at any
> resolution.

There are also occasional special offers on IPS flat panels.

The TN panels have also improved. I bought a cheap 21.5" TN panel as my 
second monitor last year. The viewing angles are really wide, basically 
about 180 degrees horizontally, a tiny bit less vertically. I couldn't 
see any effects of dithering noise either. It has a DVI input and a power 
consumption of about 30 Watts max (I run it in eco mode). Now that both 
framerate and view angle problems have been more or less solved for TN 
panels (except in pivot mode), the only remaining problems is the color 
reproduction. But it only matters when working with photographs.


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