Isn't it about time we had a good thread on LCD monitors?

[Piru]

Generally TFT's beat CRT in all aspects, except price. TFT picture is much sharper, including small text and moving objects. The contrast is superior.

Even scaling smaller resolution to full display size isn't showstopper anymore, the scaling technology has advanced a lot since early days. The only problem you might have is the 15KHz support.

I'm using 17" 1280x1024 TFT since 1.5 years, and will never go back to CRT.


PS. TFT is the first display that also allows me to see differences between gfxcard quality. CRTs were itself so bad quality I couldn't see any difference.

[Piru]

@that_punk_guy

And viewing angle, and colour fidelity...

Today's TFT's typically have around 160 degrees viewing angle. Don't know about some {bleep}ty TFTs, but mine has superb colours, much better than any CRT I've seen.

@amigamad

not for games they dont as the refresh rate is not as good

<= 20ms speed TFTs have no problems at all with games. Also see seer's comment.

also nearly all of them suffer from dead pixels

Mine has 1 dead pixel, and I need to look for it (it's really hard to spot, it took me few months to spot it in the first place). Usually cheap TFT's have possibility of more dead pixels, however.


Much of these problems are no issue today. Scaling, refresh rate, viewing angle, colour, contrast. Believe me, the complaints have been taken seriously and the issues have been addressed. Today's quality TFTs are really great, and beat CRTs in almost all aspects.