best ccfl monitor over "20.

hi all.

Its me again, the old guy who seems to have endless eye problems with modern monitors.

can anyone recommend a 20 inch or so ccfl monitor for me?! one with a good dot pitch if larger than 21".

I was in Best Buy again today. I looked at about ten monitors. I left with the very same eye problem. there is something about some kinds of modern lcds that, when I walk away from them, I see a haze in the air and my eyes are spacey feeling for over an hour.

I even tried a Samsung 27" s750 series monitor , last month, and when I went to bed that night after using it, I saw the screen door pattern "burned" into my visual field: that lasted, at night, for days!!

I seem to be able to handle the "old" plain ccfl screens ok. I have a old dell ccfl screen for my netbook and it is bright and not adjusted yet to darken it and I seem not to have any problems. nor do I seem to notice this with the Library dell professional series, about a 20 inch ccfl screen.

I have a viewsonic a90fx 19" crt and I have zero problem with eyestrain. crts are getting very hard to find!

Can anyone here recommend a good old ccfl screen for me that is good and has a good pixel pitch. over 20".

thank you...freestone

Two things:

1. You should see an eye doctor. Your difficulties could be a symptom of something more serious, from a neurological condition to blood pressure problems.

2. What do you mean by "good dot pitch"? Do you mean high pixel density or low pixel density?

There are a few Eizos CCFL still available. (21 or 22")

Get a ASUS not sure if you are running a modern video card and windows 7 or 8 helps.
Using a bad video source can create problems. Using a old server station at work with zero good video input....

It took me a few good months to get used to a 21.5 Asus led lcd

I played Rift right... and my eyes were like on fire....so I put it away used the CRT put back the LCD took the CRT out again took the LCD out again. I kept doing that.....


Now everything is good


You might want to invest in a bigger desk too so you can be farther away from the light source. Being too close my skins starts to burn.....

Not sure if It would happen recently but I just increase the desktop size to 125% for everything.

The stuff at best buy is probably at full brightness on top of being under store light fluorescent. Oh yeah if you can't use flourescents start buying incadesant light bulbs because Jan. 2nd you won't be able to buy them legally anymore thanks to that 2007 bill G W Bush signed.

I have about 80+ light bulbs should last near a lifetime



led is to go you might want to try a PWM free monitor too.

Sorry OP, I have no specific 'modern' recommendations. but I will chime in to defend your right to have problems .
I too 'dislike' LED monitors and diode light in general. I used the word 'dislike' deliberately because sometimes things like audio and vision are in the eyes/ears of the beholder. Throw all the science and specs you want at me and I still will feel uncomfortable in a room with LED light. The intensity is right but there's something wrong with how I see colours in it. I notice it right away. Bright red objects look darker to me - for example.
Personally I currently have a restored CCFL 19" Viewsonic VX1940w (1680x1050) and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I felt a funny kind of relief when I raised its reaction time (it's adjustable in it) to 'slowest'. It was okay on default settings but now I LOVE it. Hell, I have to game on this setting, because when I shorten the reaction time I just feel exhausted while playing FPS games. I can't look at the screen, even though everyone else in the room says there's nothing wrong with it.
User Cvgd mentioned health issues and I like thinking outside the box like that but sadly I have no faith in medicine wanting to solve First World problems such as this. You'll probably walk out with a huge bill and a year's supply of sarcasm.
By all means please do request a CT and/or MRI scans to make sure nothing's wrong with your head, I had one done and it even shows the important 'nerve' buses. Maybe check for the obvious neurological diseases too.
Speaking in electronics terms I always thought seeing flashing lights and patterns is the brain's way to deal with signal/noise issues that arise either from eyes themselves getting wacky or the 'cabling' (nerves).
So, what I'm trying to say is... both theories might be right

freestonew said:

Can anyone here recommend a good old ccfl screen for me that is good and has a good pixel pitch. over 20".

thank you...freestone

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Although I assume you have tried them, I will ask anyway ... have you tried PWM free LED monitors? And you keep the brightness reasonable, correct? Also don't sit too close to the monitor either.

If PWM free, light coated LEDs still bother you, at a reasonable brightness + distance, then I guess it is CCFL for you then.

Check Eizo, as has been mentioned. I think their remaining CCFLs are VA/S-PVA. Or go the used route via eBay/CL. And NEC 1990/2090/2190/2490 won't have any IPS glow if you get the A-TW polarizer or VA versions.