Thanks for all the help!
Two things I'm curious about:
1. What typically happens with the border (empty overscan region)? On a CRT you get a background color. Do LCDs show a stripe of that, or is it just gone? I'd think the LCD couldn't tell the empty area from the rest (since you can drag an Amiga screen down there, for instance) and so you'd get a big band of border color around your display. Which is OK.
2. What about if you ARE using overscan, in DeluxePaint, say. Will you get all the pixels on the LCD?
I've seen LCDs zoom, and I don't find it to be much softer than a CRT is anyway. Not as nice as native LCD, but I still think I'll be pleased compared to my old CRT :-)
Thanks for the PAL warning. I didn't think of that. I'll hate to give up my PAL shareware games! And my NTSC TV won't handle them either! I think there's a util for forcing NTSC though. I'll lose the bottom of the games but they may still run. Or is there some kind of hardware adapter that could double the Hz on the way to the monitor?
And when you say "slow TFT" are you referring to the 1905 I mentioned? Or another Dell that DOES handle less than 56Hz?
I've seen slower LCDs with fast motion and I don't expect I'll mind it the way some do. This Dell even got a good review for gaming. It seems that the ms number is only a part of the smearing issue, judging by user reports. Some units with a slower number get reported as having less smearing visible, for some reason.
But mainly, it's a 19" display with good reviews, features, and portrait ability... that you can supposedly get for $260 if you wait for the right Dell coupon!
Review:
http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2332
