>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^xxovercastxx:
Ah, another inferior technology made successful by draconian IP law and questionable business practices.

Care to elaborate for the ignorant among us (i.e. me)?


It seems I'm mixing up my stories, actually. The tech I was thinking of was SED, a display technology under development primarily by Canon/Toshiba.

While there was a lawsuit that delayed that, it seems it didn't go on for very long and ultimately Canon killed the product themselves, for reasons unknown.

It's unfortunate because SED was really a combination of all the best features of LCD and CRT combined in one. I had a pretty nice, if aging, CRT when I learned about SED and my original plan was to hold out for SED and skip LCD all together. Eventually my CRT (a 19" Sony Trinitron) got too old and I was forced to buy new. I got a 24" Samsung, one of the best LCDs on the consumer market at the time, and I've never really been happy with it. I still wish there was a better option.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

Ah, another inferior technology made successful by draconian IP law and questionable business practices.


Care to elaborate for the ignorant among us (i.e. me)?

>> ^xxovercastxx:

Ah, another inferior technology made successful by draconian IP law and questionable business practices.


QQ

Your video, How LCD screens work: The Engineer Guy, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

My pleasure! I like that guy. Should look up more of his videos!

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I wish I had a button on my keyboard that would smash LCDs on people's foreheads. I know it can be done.

at 6:10 did that guy kill his lcd screen by "flashing" it w/ a camera?

>> ^Jinx:

OkOkOk
If you're a FPS gamer that takes his shit serious you want a CRT. My parents threw away a realllllly nice 120hz 19inch CRT because they thought it was junk. I was so mad. Its really fucking hard to find good CRTs since nobody makes them, and the 120hz LCD on the market just aren't as good as the old tech (and they are expensive), even if they don't take up the entirity of your desk.
tl:dr Don't mock the microwave monitor


Agreed. It is impossible to find NEW ones too.

>> ^syncron:

I'm guessing the cat destroyed his LCD monitor and now he's stuck with an old CRT.


CRT FTW!

>> ^legacy0100:

>> ^Truckchase:
Insane, it can even make an addict out of cats.

I was thinking the same thing!

Now if they could only port cat-nip to humans...
>> ^Jinx:


If you're a FPS gamer that takes his shit serious you want a CRT. My parents threw away a realllllly nice 120hz 19inch CRT because they thought it was junk. I was so mad. Its really fucking hard to find good CRTs since nobody makes them, and the 120hz LCD on the market just aren't as good as the old tech (and they are expensive), even if they don't take up the entirity of your desk.
tl:dr Don't mock the microwave monitor

Here here! My main monitor is a Sony FW900 with a couple 22" LCDs by it's side for triplewide action. To further drive this post into unapologetic nerd-land, the magnetic field output of my Dell P2210 LCD @ 1.5' is substantially higher than the Sony CRT, and I've got the data to prove it! (pushes glasses up)

OkOkOk

If you're a FPS gamer that takes his shit serious you want a CRT. My parents threw away a realllllly nice 120hz 19inch CRT because they thought it was junk. I was so mad. Its really fucking hard to find good CRTs since nobody makes them, and the 120hz LCD on the market just aren't as good as the old tech (and they are expensive), even if they don't take up the entirity of your desk.

tl:dr Don't mock the microwave monitor

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I'm guessing the cat destroyed his LCD monitor and now he's stuck with an old CRT.

>> ^blankfist:

Let me try my top 21 predictions for the next decade! A lot of this will be US centric.
1. HDTV dimensions will increased from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160.
2. Screens will be increased to print pixel depths. 300dpi is only the beginning.
3. An affordable, flexible LCD material will change the tech and advertising world. Maybe the material can be cut to fit any size?
4. The war in Iraq will be over. But the occupation will last for decades. Other wars in the Middle East will continue.
5. Sarah Palin will never be President.
6. The US Deficit will grow to a historical high. As the Dollar and the Renminbi compete for world currency a new Cold War will be declared.
7. Top 40 music will suck.
8. The browser will be integrated as part of the OS and no longer treated as just software. Your work software (IDEs, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.) will be treated as online plug-ins, savable (with versioning) in the cloud.
9. Electricity will be wireless.
10. Reality Shows will be the new sitcom. Again.
11. China's working class will stage small worker union revolts, but the scale and number will be dramatically inflated by the media.
12. Tommy Lee Jones, Adam Ant, Joel Coen, Matt Groening, Bill Clinton, Lorne Michaels, Sam Elliot, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Steve Jobs and Roy Scheider. One of them will probably pass away.
13. Google will acquire Facebook.
14. Apple's stock will drop if Jobs passes away. They'll try to embody the innovate spirit of Jobs, but they'll miss the mark and stick to just updating the current products like iPod, iPhone, Macbooks, etc.
15. There will be an assassination attempt on a Congressman. Congress will pass into law the Vigilant Act that declares DC to "be at war". As a result no civilians except current residents are permitted to enter. Under the Act any type of search and seizure in DC is legal. To counteract the bad press, the America Museum is opened in Virginia.
16. GM will file for bankruptcy.
17. Like the huge increase in gas prices as become part of day for the US, the people will grow accustomed to the high rate of unemployment. Politicians will no longer talk about gas prices or unemployment.
18. Marijuana is legalized in three states. It's legalized for medicinal use in seventeen states.
19. Autism is linked to the artificial sweetener, Aspartame.
20. Most internet enabled TVs and projectors become equipped with a'la carte system of channel ordering. So you only buy what channels you want streamed to your tv.
21. A new phone technology is developed that works a lot like bit torrent. The phone's signal piggy backs off other phones in the area, and the more phones in an area the better the signal. Most people, however, turn this feature off because it's rumored to be a security weakness.


To answer a select few points:

1. I thought 4k displays would be up next? (4096×3072; as a coder I hate widescreens. I need horizontal screen real estate).
3. This will happen sooner than we'd like
7. When did it not?
9. See 3.
Addendum to 21: We will see a surge of private networks, linked by VPNs and shared by friends; mostly done by people trying to run away from all the crass advertisements and data gathering schemes in the net today.