got a raincheck for a 19" ws lcd on black friday. but.

[georgelawton]

Its a westinghouse widescreen 19" lcd. its 500:1... 8ms..

its 149$ us..... I'm just wonder a few things... if its good enough to replace my 19" crt.... space IS AN ISSUE... I moved and where i put
my 19" crt its tight, it rather something a little shorter and well thin, aka lcd... so i thought of a 19" ws lcd.



but is 8ms enuff? is 19" widescreen enuff?

most importantly is 500:1 enuff?? cause people sit around it in a 90 degree circle watching me kick ass at wow. (I'm the world champion. just kidding... but not)


is 500:1 suck? 700:1 better?


I hear good things about westinghouse... cause i get some help?

 

[AwsmGy]

The contrast ratio shouldn't be your largest concert if you want to see it at multiple angles. Look at the specs, it should list the possible viewing angles.

 

[bananabox]

lol you have people sit around you and watch you game :roll: . man if my kids ever play WoW

 

[croc]

I'd tend to disagree... LCD's tend to have much smaller pixels than CRT's, higher contrast ratios, and lastly MUCH lower radiation emision. I have two very high quality Sun 21" CRT's at work, and a 24" LCD at home. I'm much more comfortable at home than at work.

I get no ghosting, trailing, etc., on my LCD, and its only 16ms grey to grey. OK, I don't 'game' at work, so don't have a comparison... But while I'd not trade my 21" Sun's for a 19" LCD, no matter how fast, I'd also not trade my 24" LCD for a 21" CRT of any quality, at any price.

But that's just me. Eyes differ.

 

[croc]

As I said earlier, I can see no ghosting or trailing on my 24" LCD with only a 16 MS grey to grey response time. This is across a number of FPS games, race sims, flt sims, sub sims...

 

[croc]

Happens to be Dell 2405, and I have an old pair of 6800 Ultra PCI running in SLI... I get about 9900 score in 3d mark 05, so don't think I'm missing any FPS.... (where do the missing FPS go, the bit bucket?)

 

[croc]

OK, so where do the missed frames go? One would assume that if the processor in my LCD missed one, it would then have to re-process that frame to keep the video in sync. Which would slow down the PCI bus, and the GPU's as well. Given that I'm getting 9900+ in 3dmark05....