New TFT monitor

WhiteWashMan

did a quick search, so if i have missed anything recently about flatscreen monitors, please forgive me

anyway...

i am in the market for a 19" flatscreen to replace a 17" crt.
but im a little lost with some of the jargon. i know that its a good thing to get the response time as low as possible, but im a lottle lost when it comes to things like Image Contrast Ratio etc.

does it really matter that no flatscreens seen to go above 24 bit colour?

is a 15pin d-shell conector better or worse than a dvi connector? why?

what is it that causes the ghosting (well, i know what causes it, but what makes it not happen, is it actually the response rate?)

cheers

Stephen

DVI's better than 15-pin D-Sub, as it is then digital all the way to the monitor. (this should make for a slightly sharper, clearer image)
Your eyes won't be able to tell the difference between 24 and 32 bit colour.
Which response rate you go for is pretty much defined by what you want the monitor for and your available budget. If you want to play games on it, I'd get 12ms or better. (My own monitor is a 17" Benq with 8ms response time).
Get as high a contrast ratio as you can, try to get something with at least 500:1.

Ghosting is caused by crap response times usually - each pixel on the screen has a charge time and a time to switch itself off (can't remember what that's called). Afaik, ghosting is caused by the latter.

WhiteWashMan

cool, thats pretty much what i wanted to hear

WhiteWashMan

for anyone who is interested, good link for definitions etc

http://www.sceptre.com/Products/LCD/definitions/definiton_lcd.htm#TFT