Anyone know anything about old TEC Terminals?

They need adjustment :) For colour proofing, especially video and photography, people still rely on CRTs (I know I do). It's not so much the *hue* that's the issue, but greys and gamma. You yourself even notice it: CRTs are non-linear on the low end of the gamma curve, yielding darker and more even blacks/dark greys, while LCDs use a linear gamma that has a lot of artifacting in the low end. In addition, LCDs' grey contours tend to be compressed, yielding sharper, less-attractive gradations (which is why operating systems like OS X have different settings for antialiasing depending on if you are using an LCD or a CRT). Even though LCDs actually have better colour -- believe it or not, most LCD elements of reasonable quality do indeed have similar or better colour saturation than reasonable quality CRT phosphors -- their inability to properly render smooth tones, made worse by the uneven display illumination even in many medium-quality panels, makes it very hard to do professional image work with them because the lightness and noisiness of the image is so difficult to assess accurately. When I want to determine how an image "actually looks," I will take it to my 19" CRT -- and I use Apple LCDs, which are not cheap displays. But, LCDs are getting better. I think LED displays will be better yet. Some links with food for thought: http://www.macworld.com/2001/06/features/color/index.php http://www.displaymate.com/ShootOut_Comparison.htm http://broadcastengineering.com/newsrooms/broadcasting_gamma_correction/ -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Roger Waters to moving crew: "Hey! Careful with those racks, Eugene!" ------