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The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 1, 2012 12:42 UTC (Wed) by niner (guest, #26151)
In reply to: The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet by khim
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What exactly are the advantages of CRTs?

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The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 1, 2012 13:36 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (4 responses)

- truer colors, better contrast
- doesn't matter what angle you look at it
- less sensitive to room lighting
- better refresh rate, better motion response

That said, I'd never go back. As much as I miss my DiamondTron's quality, I sure don't miss its size, weight, and heat output.

The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 1, 2012 14:14 UTC (Wed) by niner (guest, #26151) [Link] (3 responses)

The color argument is not true anymore. There are LCDs which easily surpass a CRT's color space (especially those with LED backlight). The viewing angle problem is pretty much non-existent on a good IPS panel.

Personally, I've never been able to detect any motion blur with LCD displays, but people are very different in this regard. I get a headache when looking at a 75 Hz CRT while for most people it's not a problem.

My point is: there is very, very little left of the advantages of CRTs while there are many great advantages of LCDs making it easy to explain their success.

The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 1, 2012 16:16 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]

Two other features:
* CRTs last a lot longer than LCDs.
* CRTs can operate at a variety of resolutions without ugly scaling artifacts.

I don't own any CRTs any more either, though.

The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 2, 2012 20:55 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

My point is: there is very, very little left of the advantages of CRTs while there are many great advantages of LCDs making it easy to explain their success.

You are looking on the situation years after CRT death. Of course when CRT development stopped and LCD development continued LCD come more-or-less to the same point (black is still tinted by violet if you look from diagonal direction even on latest IPS). But CRT was dead already when LCD was much worse on all these points—that's my point.

The Nexus 7: Google ships a tablet

Posted Aug 3, 2012 6:29 UTC (Fri) by niner (guest, #26151) [Link]

Ah, ok, understood :)