How big monitor 17, 19 ?And LCD or CRT ?

[Butch]

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CRT easier pick!

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Originally Posted by Butch

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CRT easier pick!

Yes, I would agree with that

[GHiOM]

This is my way since some years now:
If you want a professionnal quality, buy something made for professionnal.

Gaming or Multimedias screen are correct to work , but not so good.

I've buy some Dell monitors, because Dell sell a lot for CAD and CG professionnal. They build a lot of very good CG workstation and people wich buy this sort of computer ( understand here very expansive computer with a lot of ram, the biggest CPU and biggest QUadro ) can't accept a bad monitors.

I'm working for movies ( TV and cine ) And i find this monitors really good for this work. With 1 button you can choose wich color space and Gamma you want : PC; MAC ; Multimedia ( understand here movie ) ; Games .

the feets of the screen are good and easy to setup . Monitors can flip from horizontal to vertical . You can put them on a wall easly . You have some USB2 on the side .

You can connect 4 or more sources on only one ( PC and Svideo ). you can have a little window somewere on your screen to show you others sources.
Only 1 button is needed to choose wich sources you want at full screen .

No one have dead pixel for me .

So i'm very happy with them. But maybe you work for print. And for Print the better are Eizo . Because some of them have a hardware calibrator and are sensitive to the ambiant light of your room. This is very expansive and no so many people have this to work.

The problem if you have to much good monitors is that your client don't see the same picture than you.

I've calibrated my Dell screen with a hardware tool.
Sometimes i'm working to do photorealistic rendering for design product. Client ask gold, silver, pink gold .... I'm serious and do realistic gold colors ...
But my client have a lot of different monitors wich are not calibrated.
Depending on wich monitors he saw my render, he ask me : please your gold must be less green . with an other monitor , more green ...

If you have an eizo, you can say at your client, you monitors sucks !
if not, you rework your picturs to satisfy your client

[Butch]

What do you think on this one?
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...&sourceid=2014

[tonytrout]

I also would like to ask some advice. I use two 19" viewsonic LCD monitors and I can switch between single screen SLI mode or dual screen mode. I have two 7900gts in sli. Most of the time I work in dual screen for the real estate, so I can have hex or maya open in one screen and photoshop or PSP in the other. Now I notice that although I have two screens, the applications dont run evenly on both. For instance I can only run Hex or Maya viewports in the primary screen although Paint shop Pro and other programs run quite happily on either screen. Also I can drag some panels from hex and they work quite happily in the second screen. With Maya it is big pain because the really usefull panels like renderview, hypershade etc that I want on the second display dont update until they are moved back on to the primary screen. As my screens are 1280 X1024 is not a big realestate to run maya in. I think I read somewhere that it is a limitation of open GL, maybe someone can enlighten me, I only pseudo-techie

Now generally I am quite happy with my setup for modelling, photoshop etc. I really dont really need more than 19" for that, but for other applications I would like more screen, not essential, but getting more needed. I have been looking at the Dell monitors 24,27 and 30". I would like the 30" but unfortunately I have not won the Lotto this week it is $US1500 with big resolution 2560 X 1600, big enough to land an F18 on!

The 27" doesnt have any more resolution than the 24" 1920 X 1200 and is a lot more expensive so doesnt seem that worthwhile except to help the poor old eyes screwed up at 2am in morning. So am looking at 24" at $US800. This monitor also has the smallest pixel pitch so I hope icons not too small. I hope this big enough to run Maya in better without having to spread to 19" I think I still run it in dual screen mode. What do you think? My cards are only 256M maybe I need more memory to run screens this big? Maybe I wait another year until 30" price come down more, and I run in single screen sli mode only, it is not essential I make decision now and maybe I have more money next year, and I upgrade to 16X quadcore boxx....Not sure what to do.... maybe nothing

Long ramble really but what i suppose I am asking is what setup would other people see as ideal. (Please note, it is not question about artistic talent at all, I know some people only need back of match box and old stub of pencil and hair they have plucked from bottom to make masterpiece, but I need all the help I can get)

[rickei]

Tony,

I run 2 Viewsonic VX2025 20" widescreens at 1680x1050, using DVI. I have found it to be a very good setup for the price. I am thinking of a pair of 24" widescreens in the very near future... I'll probably use the same resolution, for less eye fatigue.

whatever you do go widescreen, it makes a HUGE difference in tool palate real estate.

As for color correction. save your money on the screen and get a Spider or a Huey. They can bring a relatively cheap monitor right into calibration.

[Plum]

Hiya.

I guess I'm the odd man out here...CRT. I use LCD's at work, and I've used other LCD's. Every single LCD I've ever used or looked at (re: down at display in the store) have looked "fuzzy" overall....especially with regards to text. There is simply no compairison there for me.

My Compaq QVISION 210 21" CRT has been working flawlessly since I bought it...about 10 years ago. It isn't as sharp as it used to be, but it is still sharper than any LCD I've used. The colors are a *bit* off, but the size, speed and crispness I get far outweigh the desire for something that sucks up less power (re: an LCD).

So, that's one vote for CRT!

[Patrick210]

I like Samsung, I have one setup with dual 19" Samsung LCDs and another setup with a 22" wide format Samsung LCD , which I got for $300.00.