22 Nov
2010
22 Nov
'10
7:51 p.m.
On 11/22/10 2:07 PM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
You know, I have the same problem. I don't know what it is about LCD
monitors, but they do tend to induce headaches. CRT's never seem to
bother me. I can stay up many hours into the night staring into a
VT100 in a dark room with no problems - but an hour of using a laptop
and I have a headache.
Glad that it isn't just me.
Hmm, I wonder what the difference is. One possibility is the much
more well-defined pixels of an LCD; that could be tested by placing some
sort of a diffuser (but not TOO much of a diffuser of course) in front
of an LCD to see if that makes any difference.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Any particualr reason you prefer CRT monuitors? OK, I
prefer them, but only (a) becasue they were the original displays
for many of my classic computers nad (b) because they're easier to
fix than the LCD type.
They're just easier on my eyes, I find. LCDs give me a headache
after quite a short while, but I can look at a (well-adjusted) CRT
for much longer before it bothers me. I'm not sure why - something
to do with pixel aliasing, perhaps.