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My laptop is almost 1 month old and does the same resolution - but it's a 12" screeen, it's also got a slightly dud pixel but I'm using it on an external CRT so I'm not too worried :-D

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CRT Vs LCD
I believe CRTs are still used for colour accuracy, artists / designers still use CRTs even today.

Otherwise I think LCDs have definately caught up with CRTs and have the advantage of no flicker.

For TVs LCDs are so good that they show the artifacts in digital TV / DVDs much more than CRT TVs.  It's so bad in fact that they are putting low pass filters in to degrade the screens so it's not so noticable!


I'd like to get an LCD as a main display sometime, the good ones seem to have come down in price over the last year so you're talking about 1200€ for a for a 21" Iiyama rather then 2500€.

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OLED
I think the problem with these at the moment is lifetime, it's only something like 18 months IIRC.

Plasma TVs have the same problem but they'll at least last a few years.

Folded CRTs
Sinclair did one of these in the late 70s / early 80s for a little TV set.

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Amiga on LCD TV
Should work, curious to see the results.  Might not like the higher resolutions though (but you never know...).