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LCD woes

  • 21-12-2004 8:59pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭


    I got a new 17" LCD monitor today to replace my blown Gateway VX700 CRT. The monitor is an Acer AL1711. Picture quality is excellent and there are no pixel errors (yet, lol) but it's very stressful on my eyes. It seems that the picture is too bright and too sharp. The brightness control doesn't have much of an effect. Obviously the refresh rate has no effect because its an LCD.

    Is there anything I can do to stop myself from reaching for the aspirin all the time?


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  • #2
    Bass.exe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Bass.exe


    Well, you could try fiddling with the contrast controls - that makes much more of a difference than brightness. As for sharpness.... I don't know... can an image be too sharp? I wouldn't know. Myopia is a bitch. :D

    Here is a point, sometimes fluorescent lighting hurts people's eyes when using LCDs (which also use fluorescents...). Dunno where I read that. Feel free to correct me, someone.


  • #3
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭mad m


    Have you tried going to your appearence in display and selecting cleartype for LCD's?

    have a look link

    it might help


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A combination of both suggestions seems to help. Lowering the contrast makes the screen easier to look at for longer. I usually steered away from the ClearType because it made text look blurred on my CRT. However I think the text is "too sharp" on this monitor so adding a little blurriness helps out. Only thing I need to get used to is that the fonts don't look the same at all!


  • #5
    Bass.exe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Bass.exe


    Just a thought. LCD monitors have 1 resolution that you pretty much HAVE to stick to - for example, mine is 1280x1024.
    The pixels on an LCD screen are a fixed size, they can't be stretched out like on a CRT monitor. If you stray from your LCDs "prescribed" resolution, it'll make the fonts look really wierd.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Well I'm using 1280x1024@60Hz which is the recommended resolution. I can set it to 75Hz but this makes no difference (obviously). The only thing I don't like about this res is the darn 5:4 aspect ratio - have to crop my wallpaper now.

    Maybe I just need some time to adjust to it, its starting to feel a lot better now.


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  • #7
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭mad m


    Did you get software with Lcd,i did with mine and it had all sorts of things i had to tweak after i installed them


  • #8
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Yes, ClearType is very nice (just tried it there)


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