I’ve used both varieties extensively for work, school, and casual browsing. After an hour or less on an LCD, my eyeballs invariably begin to experience pain. With CRTs, I can stay for upwards of twelve hours, excepting breaks for bodily functions, and such strain is rare.
Is there some scientifically understood basis for this?
Were the LCDs you’ve tried newer ones that had good pixel refresh? I know the older ones weren’t quite on par with CRTs but I’ve heard the newest ones are equivalent to 100 hz monitors, although I’m not about to play a serious game on one.
I recently bought my first LCD monitor, to be used in conjunction with my CRT. At first I was experiencing the same eye strain you’ve had, then I looked at the two monitors and realized the problem. I had the brightness/contrast cranked up on the LCD, only because I *could. *When I adjusted it to a more reasonable level, the eye strain went away.
It could also be if you view a lot of movement on the screen. A CRT is better at that since the pixel’s fade away then are repainted in their new location. A LCD just makes the pixel disappear and reappear in the new location, which is a bit harder for our brains to use.
This is mostly for LCD TV’s, as the new ones seem to take this into account and black out a pixel before moving it to a new location, but I would wag that this could apply to computer gaming.
Just switched to a LCD TV a couple of months ago and to a LCD computer monitor just a week ago.
‘Getting the font up to a thicker level and larger size and as said before, cranking down the ‘brightness’ and contrast’ have made the eye strain about equal for me.
Font is where the LCD is less than an old CRT IMO. But I went with LCD because of space issues dying CRT’s, three , and I am still tweaking them to find the best settings for me.
I do no high end games so that is not part of my problem.
Wow - I’m amazed that anyone actually prefer CRTs. Ever since they first came out, I have found LCD screens much easier to read than CRTs.
It depends what you’re doing. I still use my high-end CRT for my Photoshop work, and the LCD for everything else.