From: John Kim (kim_at_mak.com)
Date: Tue Jul 08 1997 - 11:57:45 EDT
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Peter Lewis wrote:
> <snip>
>
> TFT, in
> >my opinion, is better than most monitors.
>
> <snip>
>
> I guess this is a matter of personal preference, but I disagree. CRTs
> literally shoot images into your eyeballs. Laptop screens, even TFTs, are
> dull by comparison. The best TFT I've seen, the brand new, Mac 20th
> anniversary edition, at 800x600 in thousands of colors, is quite good (at
> $7,500 a copy it better be!) but still inferior to my .26 dot pitch Nokia.
I would imagine that's because of the power restrictions on most
laptop displays. I had a color LCD TV which was dull using the
backlight, but flip the back open and let the sunlight through
and it was very bright (problem was they put a nice glossy layer
of plastic over the screen so being in sunlight almost turned it
into a mirror) . I'm curious how a "desktop" TFT would look if
it had an incandescent or halogen backlight instead of a
fluorescent backlight.
The biggest difference I noticed when I first got a laptop was
how much *sharper* the display was than a monitor. The
"individual" pixels that made up the letters were razor sharp
almost to the point of being distracting. Then I used a monitor
again and felt like everything was out of focus. :)
-- John H. Kim kim_at_mak.com
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