Re: TFT screen to view pictures ?

Thanks Chelsea, yeah that gives me a good idea. I think i will stick with my
17" CRT for the moment. I had kinda come to that conclusion, just wanted
someone else to more or less be on the same thinking as me. The look of the
photo's are paramount to everything else. We do a lot of printing and
magazine work !

Thanks
Andrew


"Chelsea" <gallium1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uRg9uABHGHA.3100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Andy,
> I think you are are little confused about image quality and image accuracy
> using TFT displays. Most TFT displays will give you a nice enough screen
> image and this will be fine for most people. However if you require the
> image to represent itself on the screen in a way that is faithfull to the
> original image file ie with colours correctly represented in accordance
with
> the images RGB values then a TFT will fail miserably to do the job-with
just
> a couple of exceptions.So if for example you are doing Pre-press work or
> photographic manipulation and restoration a TFT will not be a good choice.
> This is because most TFT's cannot reproduce the RGB color space and hence
> display all of the necessary colours. If you really need a TFT display
that
> produces accurate color then look at monitors from Lacie and specially
Eizo.
> These are very expensive -but you get what you pay for. Unfortunately I
need
> this type of monitor so to give you some idea, an Eizo S2410W which is a
> 24inch 16:10 display costs about £1100 in UK or about $1700 in the United
> States. The quality is of course fabulous, but then it should be
considering
> the price. Hope that helps
>
> Chelsea
>
> "andy100" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dqjrrr$ale$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sorry if a little off topic, but couldn't find any groups on monitors or
> > TFT's etc !
> >
> > I am thinking of buying an ACER AL1912S 19 inch monitor from Argos for
> > £149.99. But i had heard some reviews saying that TFT isn't really as
good
> > as CRT for viewing Videos and Pictures, but it is better for gaming. Is
> > this
> > generally the case ?
> >
> > In a nutshell, do pics/videos generally look better on TFT or CRT ?
> >
> >
> > Many Thanks
> > Andrew
> >
> >
>
>


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