LCD monitors

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:30:11PM -0400, Sy Ali wrote:
> Everything these days will autodetect and turn off and give you a good
> message about it.
> 
> One note: There are some godawful LCDs coming out.  The new low-end
> 19" Dell screen I have for a spare computer at work will wash out a
> lot of colours.  People will look at it and insist that everything
> looks good -- photographs and text all look good.  But subtle colour
> changes are NOT visible at all.

Probably the 6bit/colour displays rather than 8bit/colour.

> I can confirm this on other peoples screens too.. where they have
> trouble distinguishing white from beige.

They really do look pretty bad. :)

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