It's about trade offs. In some ways the LCD is superior, like no geometry
distortion and sharper text, in other ways the CRT is superior, like better
gradation of tones (black to gray) and looks good at any res. You makes your
choices and live with it.
>>Some games are built around the 4:3 ratio, and running at 1280x1024
>>can look downright wierd.
>>Andrew.
>1280x1024 is 4:3 on an LCD because LCD's use rectangular pixel
>elements and not square.
1280x1024 doesn't look odd on an LCD if it's native res. Using
1280x1024 on an (4:3)CRT on the other hand *does* produce rectangular
pixels. The image is squashed by about 7%. The correct way to use
1280x1024 on a CRT is to leave black borders on the vertical edges of
the screen.
Depends on the monitor. I personally prefer cropped picture in
(slightly)lower resolutions rather than interpolated.
The other guys at the LAN party were dubious, but after they tried it
they were forced to agree that even a cheap LCD with a slow response
time is fine for games, yes even FPS. :)
Racing sims look good, with a slight motion blur effect towards the
edges where the track side objects are speeding past.
The colour fine also, but, it has to be said, not quite as rich as a CRT.
Gerry
