loafer87gt
Limp Gawd
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I have been looking to upgrade my Dell 2405 LCD for sometime now to something that has better blacks akin to my old Viewsonic CRT. I did purchase a refurb FW900, but it looked like it had a lot of hours behind its belt and despite all sorts of adjustments and tweaking at a monitor repair shop I was unable to get the convergence and black levels sorted. Like my Dell 2405, blacks appeared as more of a dark reddish grey than black. The thing is, I absolutely love the sharpness of my current LCD, but the poor black level and motion blur have really taken taken away from my enjoyment of gaming on the PC. It's great for work doing graphics, but doesn't hold a candle to my old 21" Viewsonic CRT in terms of flexibility in scaling and image quality. I was really excited THREE YEARS AGO when I read that FED technology was on the brink of being released to consumers, supposedly remedying the flaws inherent with todays LCD's. Unfortunately, today there seems to be not a peep in the media about the technology, and I fear it may be vaporware like the (in)famous Duke Nukem Forver and the Bit Boys GPU.
Price is not really an issue for me, I just want something that gives me black blacks once again, and has the vibrance that my old CRT used to have. So far, my now aging Dell 2405 is falling short in this area. I'm not too sure how much LCD tech has advanced since the purchase of my Dell unit, but I would assume black levels are something that are always going to be problematic with the tech, and as such there is no point upgrading to another display using the same panel tech. Am I correct?
Price is not really an issue for me, I just want something that gives me black blacks once again, and has the vibrance that my old CRT used to have. So far, my now aging Dell 2405 is falling short in this area. I'm not too sure how much LCD tech has advanced since the purchase of my Dell unit, but I would assume black levels are something that are always going to be problematic with the tech, and as such there is no point upgrading to another display using the same panel tech. Am I correct?