rec.autos.simulators

-Larry

It's the _pixel response characteristics_ that cause ghosting on LCD's.

Analog connections can induce noise under some circumstances that certainly
will affect the performance of LCD's.  Most of the time they are fine
though.

-Larry

Think of it like this....

Let's say  you light up a pixel on the right side of the display.  You
intend to walk that 'dot' across the screen by turning off that pixel, and
turning on the one to it's left.  Repeat 1024 times (for a 15" LCD).

Depending on the pixel response characteristics, the movement may 'blur'
because the pixels cannot turn on or off fast enough to prevent it.  When
the one on the right shuts off and the one to the left turns on, when the
one on the left comes on the right one is still partially visible due to
it's slow response time, and thus 'ghosting' occurs.

-Larry

While _technically_ correct (kind of), the reality is that the pixel can
still be ASKED to change a lot more than that.  You don't really know what
frames will actually displayed, just that it won't be all of them.

You can't really tie frame rate to pixel response.

-Larry

But you said before "There is a slight motion blur in racing games".
That proves to me it isn't good enough.

Andrew.

To say that slight blurring 'proves' it's not good enough only proves to
me that you aren't bright enough!

But LCD TV's cost a fortune compared to LCD monitors. I would expect
for that price that they have a fast reponse rate.

Andrew.

Social services may be free but they are certainly not of very high quality.
Hospitals are run by the state and are not efficient. People die while in
queue for simple surgery. Social services has to be outsourced to private
companies or this will never get better. Problem is most people don't
understand what the problem is. They think the state should run everything,
managers of large companies should earn about the same as a industrial
worker, and that is should be illegal to pay for heart surgery at a private
clinic because it would be unfair to the not so wealthy.
I guess you won't find a country where the "low" wages are higher than here,
and that's nice, but there might not be that much left after you have paid
all taxes.

Example:
You make 600.000. Your Employer has to pay 14,2% on your wage so what he
pays is 685.200. This is a high wage (progressive tax) and half of it will
be tax. You have 300.000. You use it all to buy a car. Now cars was sometime
defined as a luxury item that no one really needed so it was heavily taxed.
So half of you 300.000 goes to the state and the other half to the car
dealer. So your Employer paid you 685.200 and all you could buy was a
150.000 car. The state got 535.000. The state is you and me, (Ed, Goy and me
to be more specific) :) , but most of it got spilled away in the process of
providing us with social services, roads and stuff. This is problem in all
countries but I think it's quite bad over here. You have to compare the tax
level in a country to what you get back in services, not how much the state
are able to burn providing these services. I think Switzerland and maybe
Canada are good at this, but I'm not sure.

Another side effect of social services being free:
Your in Iran, your pregnant. The local hospital in Tehran doesn't have the
best reputation. To have the baby at a hospital cost nearly as much as a
plane ticket to Norway. A friend of your sister-in-law's sister has a friend
who's sister-in-law live in Norway. What do you do? You guessed it! You fly
to Norway on a 3 month tourist visa, and have the baby on an, after all,
quite decent Norwegian hospital. :)

--
Jone Tytlandsvik
http://tytlandsvik.no

I guess the "film" type I'm thinking of can't be used on coulor LCD's
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/woodyatt/parts/parts.htm

I also found this:

http://www.elotouch.com/products/crtlife.asp#lcd

"Cost of ownership considers maintenance costs over the life of the monitor
as well as the initial cost. While the acquisition cost of an LCD monitor
may be twice that of a CRT, the maintenance costs of an LCD monitor can be
considerably less and may result in a lower cost of ownership. The following
factors should be considered in the LCD/CRT selection:
LCD backlights last about twice as long as CRTs and cost less to replace.
LCDs backlights can be field replaced without the need for test equipment.
CRT replacement requires special test equipment and cannot be replaced in
the field. CRTs must be shipped to a repair depot resulting in increased
down time and higher shipping costs."

And this:

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=139035

--
Jone Tytlandsvik
http://tytlandsvik.no

Larry

And I have not seen a manufacturer in 10 years that would sell me a light
bulb.  The last one that I saw that on was an old (OLD) Apple Powerbook back
in, oh, 1994/5.  It's been whole-panels since then.

Out-Of-Warranty CRT's are rarely repaired these days unless it is something
simple or if it's a really expensive, specialty monitor.  Manufacturers
almost always drop-ship whole-unit replacements (typically refurbished)
under warranty.

Most Monitor repair shops are flat-rate and do whatever is necessary to fix
it for $75 to $150, unless they need CRT's or Flyback's.  These days, I do
suspect there are computer modules that also cannot be
component-level-repaired.

-Larry

Sure, but that makes the issue whether they are good enough for DVD:s
a matter of opinion, not if they sell them or not.

Stephen

:-)