what is the best lcd for gaming? i bought a samsung 19" widescreen monitor, but after an hour my eyes ache. my optician says i am sensitive to fluorescent lighting. i could spend hours on my 100hz crt monitor with no problems. i wonder does anyone else have this problem? i recently saw an asus 22" widescreen monitor with the glossy coating that look soothing on the eyes and i am interested in the benq fp241w or should i just wait for the led backlight monitors to come out. i think apples have led backlights. does anyone know if they cause less eye strain?
I had the same problem switching from years of CRT use. Your eyes adjust fine after a little while. I use both techs daily at this point (CRT for 8+ hours 5 days a week; LCD afterhours for gaming, etc.), and my eyes are fine.
You're going to have to find an LCD which uses LEDs for a backlight, but I haven't seen any that arn't already attached to a laptop. EDIT: I didn't really read the original question to the full, so I've just stated what you've said. Anyhow, if you're a whiz with electronics or have an old LCD monitor you dont need anymore you cdould try and take it apart then build your own LED matrix and use that as a backlight.
Samsung do one. Trusted reviews gave it the I get twitchy eye and my left eye gets all itchy. This is more do do with being very tired though I think.
Sadly, this has nothing to do with the monitor you may be using. It's the first signs of the infection called relix.
I must be tired... I got so far as copying and readying my finger on the V key to paste so that I could search wikipedia on such an affliction. Luckily my brain caught up with my actions just in time!
It's not the CCFL. It is behind polarised glass, so any UV rays are quite well shielded. Moreover they do not flicker at 50/60 Hhz like conventional fluorescents hanging from the ceiling, which are fed by AC means power (inverters smooth out the juice only to some extent). Now sufficiently bright white LEDs are on the market, they are chosen not for their optical properties but for their longer life span, lower power consumption and greater space effiency. It may be that you've got the contrast whacked way up high, or the ambient lighting in your room is relatively dark. Position may also be a factor. TFTs fit in tighter places than CRTs --did you change the location of your monitor?
so a LED backlight is much better for eyestrain then CFL? its a shame my samsung lcd irritates my eyes because it has a great response time (2ms), but the "white light" is the problem my optician says. i use the high contrast function to look at text, otherwise i can't focus on the words after an hour.
i tried messing with the settings but it is even worse when i switch it to " dynamic contrast" the only thing that has helped is reducing the resolution. problem started after a 3 hour session on warhammer, my eyes felt like they had been cooked. i love strategy games and never had this problem with my 100hz crt.
Have you tried turning down the brightness of the monitor. And even try to find some darker theme for your computer (black backgrounds and so on. Using the windows classic theme lets you set all windows black, and all the text white. I used this for a while. The only downside is that some programs have black text no matter what. Black text on black background doesn't work very well... I think it was pretty comfortable. Especially with the right ambient light in the room. )
well... my mate has LED backlit Macbook Pro and I must admit that in comparision with mine it is the thing I envy most in his
yeah having a black background with white text is alot more soothing. i was talking to my friend about this, he reckons its because the light given off by the lcd looks so real. i mean the blue sky in far cry looked so real and he thinks this confuses the nervous system, resulting in the adrenal system being effected. i was looking at another friend's 50" sony lcd and my breathing went shallow and my heart raced, so i didn't stay round to watch the last of the film. it's weird because i have no problem looking at plasma tvs
There may be issues of flicker fusion threasholds and motion sickness. Basically, if the image doesn't noticably flicker, it looks more convinving to the brain. You may also be more susceptible to motion sickness (because movement perceived in the picture does not correspond to movement perceived by your balance organs). However I think is more likely that it was just be the size of the image that was the problem: a 50" screen pretty much fills up your peripheral vision, enhancing the disorienting effects of perceived movement, whereas with a smaller screen the surrounding static environment is still visible in the periphery, thus clueing in your brain that it is the picture that is moving, not your environment.
thanks nexxo for your suggestions. it could be a form of motion sickness, as i never gotten over my motion sickness when i play fps. i tend to play fps on a empty stomach otherwise i'll puke everywhere. i really had to perservere through far cry, but it was worth it!
