LCD screens and color

[kiev4a]

I now have LCD monitors both at work and at home. And while they are much easier on the eyes the tube monitors, it is very difficult to get accurate color on them.

The problem is that when you adjust color, if you move your head even a couple of inches while viewing the screen, the brightness and/or contrast changes every so slightly. So what looks perfect from one angle, looks slightly different from another angle. And one can only guess what it looks like to another internet viewer.

Before long it probably will be next to impossible to get a tube monitor. The LCDs save a huge amount of space, power and generate less heat. But there is a price to be paid.

[PeterW]

Hi Wayne,

I've never used an LCD screen except on a laptop, and then only for word processing and spreadsheets. But I've looked at them on display in computer dealers and came to the same conclusions as you.

As long as it keeps working I'm very happy with my somewhat ageing Sony Trinitron Multiscan 500PS tube monitor which measures 19 1/2 inches on a diagonal of the screen, 25 inches diagonal over the case, requires 20 inches room front to back and needs a very sturdy desk to support it.

Oh yes, it also keeps me warm in winter!

PeterW

PS Why is it that computer shops and television shops never seem to be able to adjust the colour balance of their display models properly? Not a very good advert for their 'we'll set it all up for you' sales pitch.

[kiev4a]

I've got my old NEC Multisync that the LCD replaced that I would be tempted to hook back up were it not for the space saved by the new screen and it's size (19-in v. 17 in -- actually even larger since part of the 17-in tube is covered by the frame).

Where it really shows it is in Photoshop in variations. On the LCD nearly all the variation choices--particularly brightness -- look the same.