Someone convince me please...TFT vs CRT

isofa

Most good quality TFTs come with a 3 year warranty, if in doubt, check before you buy.

penrhyn

You won't get a hernia shifting an lcd display, the same cannot be said about a larger CRT, especially if it was a trinitron 19" type that mine was.

isofa

You should have seen my 24" Apple CRT back in the early 90s, took two people to lift, and required the deepest desk in the World!

tomsolomon

I have a 21":D Sony crt on my desktop and an lcd on my laptop. Cant say I realy have noticed much difference in quality, although the size difference does make a difference, especially when playing fp and and driving games. If you just want a total imersion in gaming experience buy a new tv and plug your PC straight into it. With full surround sound and a realy large screen you will be totaly overwhealmed.
Size definately does matter, So my missus says.

roddydogs

whilst were on this could someone tell me why their nearly all "widescreen" now- if the comp feed is 4.3 wont it just stretch the picture?

BillScarab

The computer feed isn't 4:3 specifically, you pick a resolution to suit you monitor. If you have a reasonably modern Graphics card it will have widescreen resolutions as well as 4:3 resolutions. You may have issues with some old games that don't have widescreen resolutions though, but you can often run these in a window to get round it.

FallingDownMan

justgreen wrote: »

I think CRT is better quality but TFT is easier to work with - as in, less desk space. Stories of dead pixels etc etc are becoming rare and that is what a 12 month warranty is for.

Not true. There is a limit to the number of dead pixels below which it is not considered a fault. So you can get dead pixels and have to put up with it, especially once it is over 1 month old (statutory rights, etc.).

You need a very generous supplier to replace one if it is inside the industry spec. and develops faults later on. Very generous indeed.

tomstickland

I think a good CRT gives better resolution than a TFT. However, I prefer TFT as an all round proposition.

Wesker

Thanks for all your replies, bit of a 50:50 mix

Still undecided lol :rolleyes:

isofa

You're crazy if you buy old technology CRT in my opinion!