LCD Prices/Supply

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by Pepzhez
Certainly LCD screens will gradually improve in quality and continue to drop in price, but in order to do any serious video editing, it's going to be a long while before even the most expensive LCDs ever catch up with a good CRT design. I wouldn't want to edit even on an overpriced Apple Cinema Display (I invite you to compare the quality of a Sony PVM video monitor to the most expensive LCD or plasma screen you can find; there's zero comparison), nor do I know anyone else who would (obviously I am not talking about your average consumer using imovie).

Another factor everyone has thus far neglected to mention is the miserable reliability and durability of LCD designs. Dead pixels, anyone? Not "if" but always "when". Always.

I LOVE my Apple LCD and I do lots of graphic design (some of us are not as cocky about a minor difference that the average user can not distinguish anyway) BUT I have to agree with the pixel comment. My monitor came with a dead pixel and I was nicely informed that Apple will not replace the monitor if it has 1 dead pixel in the centre of the screen..... I still love it, though.

 

[Xapplimatic]

Originally posted by Pepzhez
Another factor everyone has thus far neglected to mention is the miserable reliability and durability of LCD designs. Dead pixels, anyone? Not "if" but always "when". Always.

Neglected to mention probably because it isn't a problem. LCDs are quite reliable. I have yet to buy an LCD that had the "stuck pixel" problem. I've had various models of Apple laptop LCDs since the Powerbook 100 and not one single stuck pixel or burned out backlight. It all depends on who's making them and how.. just like CRTs..

Does anyone complain that CRTs are have "miserable reliability" because a few of them will loose one of their color guns over time, or the monitor smokes out because a high voltage path will arc out with something on the board because the PCBs are cheaply mass manufactured? It happens, but it's not common. Durability? Hmm.. drop glass screen, glass breaks.. drop plastic screen.. plastic breaks.. I'd call that a tie.. but if anyone asked me which one I'd rather have dropped on my foot, it wouldn't be the CRT!

I would entertain however health issue discussions about CRTs and LCDs.. Since LCDs backlights operate at frequencies >400Hz, I think they are slightly better for people with Epilepsy to look at. Eye-strain.. LCDs win again. Less radiation, less stroboscopic effect.

As for editing video on 1024x768.. I've done it quite successfully on 800 x 600 in fact, but of course, I'm working with DV streams not HDTV res...

Of course, if someone likes CRTs all that much, I'm sure they can contract with someone to install a 15 " CRT screen on their PowerBook, but I wouldn't call it a book anymore.. it would have to be called say, the PowerBlob..

 

[motive8]

LCD's vs. CRT's

One footnote to remember as well: LCD's are also safer--there is little or no radiation to worry about--though i will miss the studio tan i got (and wincing headaches) with my 21" Radius Intellicolor Behemoth.

The only caveat: LCD's don't make a wonderful smashing sound when dropped off a high roof like a good CRT.

 

[madamimadam]

Re: LCD's vs. CRT's

Originally posted by motive8
One footnote to remember as well: LCD's are also safer--there is little or no radiation to worry about--though i will miss the studio tan i got (and wincing headaches) with my 21" Radius Intellicolor Behemoth.

The only caveat: LCD's don't make a wonderful smashing sound when dropped off a high roof like a good CRT.

Maybe we can get a custom design LCBlob. An LCD with a vaccum chamber behind it.

 

[jefhatfield]

imagine a mac with lcd for under a grand

then under 900

then...