Albert on 29/8/2009 at 06:41

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My 2 cents: Dunno! Don't care! Could care less! :cheeky:

KoHaN69 on 22/11/2009 at 20:27

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I'd wait until 120Hz oled LCD monitors are sub-$400 USD (about 8 months I'm guessing)
I personally can't stand 60Hz



Or you can roll like me and find yourself one of these
http://ded.zenblue.net/FW900/fw900_cdrom.jpg

:cheeky: :cheeky: :cheeky:

Outlooker on 2/12/2009 at 23:03

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Careful here:
For gaming, dynamic contrast should be switched off ! It is meant for movies (it regulates the backlight for the tft up and down, and that rather slowly-thats all it does). When you activate it while gaming, brightness will change regulary and that is very annoying.

I have used about a dozen TFTs for thief, and with everyone I had not only to deactivate dynamic contrast but to tweak monitor configurations generally for optimum effect. Get down to that monitor settings on the panel and change them around; maybe even in combination with the settings from the graphics card.

I had cheap and very expensive displays in use for thief, and all were OK after more or less finetuning,in the end.

Gadget2006 on 6/12/2009 at 05:50

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Hmm, I've played Thief 1, 2, and 3, with numerous add-on missions on two LCD monitors, one of them is Samsung SyncMaster 225UW, and another is some ViewSonic high-end brand (it was my friend's, so I don't remember what it was), and I was very satisfied with the experience. With some settings tweaking I managed to get a very decent black and also everything was very crisp, I actually enjoyed it much much more than on my old 17" CRT that I originally played Thief 1/2 on. I guess it depends too much on the brand and on your settings, it might take you a while to get the exact experience you want, but I think that on most modern middle-end and high-end LCD monitors it should be doable. I can tell you at least one thing for sure: there's no way I'm going back to the CRT technology. :) Right now I'm playing The Dark Mod on my Samsung LCD and it's totally enjoyable.

Serpentine on 22/8/2010 at 21:30

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There are a couple, but they have many more downsides and complications, they are also strangely worse for your proposed use(unless you've got cash to burn).

The problem with them is that the models with good specs across the board use RGB LED's, which are incredibly expensive and as such they're only used in professional displays for colour proofing and such, if you're not going to spend 3x the price of the same sized 'good' alternative, those are out of the question. These however are always of the full LED array, not edge lit. They also have a great gamut usually as well as a far more uniform brightness. If you know a graphics company that's liquidating, go make some offers if they have quality swag ;)

However there are traditional white LED versions too, but are also harder to 'balance' for a uniform brightness, tho this is getting better it's still worse than CCFL in a lot of cases. The other problem is that they dont have the most stellar aging/dimming and can result in a nice display starting to suck long before its life should be over. Most white LED displays that have good black levels have poor colour gamut ranges and there's little you can do about that. Consumer LED notebook displays are an exaggerated example of this with their very high highlights and murky dark green/browns.

All in all LED backlighting is generally just a marketing thing, a lot of people think that white LED backlight models sold as "LED" displays are vastly different to a CCFL backlit LCD and as such fork out loads more for pretty shoddy hardware with a million marketing terms and buzz words stuck on them, much like crappy "surround sound 5.1" headphones. That's not to say there arn't some great models out there, but that can apply to anything and is most likely not a direct result :)