IQuoting Tan and Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hey guys, > > Completely off topic here but in light of the recent monitor discussion, I > too have a monitor problem. For some reason, and only at night time, the > display on my monitor does this funny flickering, wobbly thing. I can > continue to work on it but it kinda makes me motion sick. lol. > > Anyways, it never gets turned off, but ONLY does it at night, which I > think > is a very strange phenomena, I mean how can a CRT monitor tell the time?! > > I'm really wondering if it is time to take the plunge into the world of > LCD > screens, but even through the discussion you guys have been having, I am > still seeing the benefits of staying "old school". Suggestions gratefully > accepted... > > :) >
I'm probably going to regret commenting here, since I'm not a scientific expert on monitors and the listmembers who are will probably make me feel stupid pretty soon, but ... First suggestion is that maybe the darn thing does flicker all the time but you only notice it at night. Secondly, I recently noticed that the monitor on my better-half's computer was flickering obnoxiously. (Although he was using it a lot, he had not noticed this himself. He was however getting lots of headaches. I suspect a connection.) So anyway we went shopping for monitors and ended up buying a nice new 19" LCD. With my only previous experience of LCD monitors being my otherwise wonderful notebook, whose screen's apparent contrast and colour balance changes drastically with a slight shift in the angle from which I view it, I was awfully sceptical of LCDs. I was amazed to discover that the monitors available in the stores didn't have this problem to anything like the degree that the one in my notebook does, and in fact I can't see ANY sign of that effect in the one I eventually recommended that he buy. We haven't done any serious photo editing on the new monitor (Samsung Syncmaster 912n, in case you care) so we've no reason to enter into issues of critical calibration. Admittedly just talking about eyeball comparison, nothing with scientific instruments, the picture quality looks fantastic to me. If I were going to replace my monitor, I would certainly start with this one and check closely into whether there was a valid reason NOT to buy it. ERNR
