pwyll on 29/9/2010 at 17:07
By my experience CRT are better for Thief than LCD. The black is really black on CRT. I have never tried LED displays. I know that they don't have a background light so black should look great on them. Anyway, I would like to have this one - (
http://www.crvd.com/overview.php)
Morphi on 29/9/2010 at 17:41
Shouldn't a plasma be quite perfect for thief?
Renzatic on 30/9/2010 at 02:55
Not perfect, but better. For now, CRT is the best option for people obsessive about their black levels, and will be until AMOLED screens start hitting it big.
Once AMOLED does it hit big though, and starts showing up at affordable prices, there'll barely be any reason to stick with a big ass boxy monitor. You get all the advantages of LCDs (vivid colors, crisp picture), and all the advantages of CRTs (high contrast ratio, true black, no viewing angle washout). It's pretty damn rad stuff.
Sticky Fingers on 30/9/2010 at 06:01
Quote Posted by Dia
I preferred my old CRT (by Mitsubishi) hands down when playing anything Thief.
:thumb: 19" Diamond Digital here. Gorgeous.
(This AMOLED sounds very interesting though - time for some surfing.....)
Fidcal on 30/9/2010 at 10:53
Quote Posted by pwyll
I have never tried LED displays. I know that they don't have a background light so black should look great on them. Anyway, I would like to have this one - (
http://www.crvd.com/overview.php)
That's OLED and AMOLED that don't need a backlight. The so-called LED displays are actually normal LCD displays with an LED backlight - or rather several LED backlights - instead of a fluorescent panel. LCD lets the backlight shine through in different degrees whereas OLED pixels each generate their own light. There's always some bleedthrough of light with LCD so blacks are not perfect whereas any OLED pixel that is OFF emits no light and is presumably near perfect in an unlit room. I think they reflect some light that would show in a lighted room or outdoors on a sunny day on a mobile phone display. I believe (again! because I'm no expert and only inferring from what I read) that Super ALOMED has improved on this tremendously.
Strange to read on Wikipedia ((
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOLED#Advantages)) that OLED is cheaper than LCD. I've waited years for it and it was so unaffordable that nobody was producing a decent sized TV or monitor.
Morphi on 30/9/2010 at 16:59
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Not perfect, but better.
A Plasma TV as monitor could get (permanent) burn-ins, couldn't it? (Taskbar, Desktop, Healthbar etc.)
Renzatic on 30/9/2010 at 17:42
From what I gather, your risks for burn in are about as high on a newer model plasma as they are on a CRT. So it isn't something you should worry about, as long as you're not constantly running Thief in 12 hour stretches, then letting it sit on your desktop without a screen saver for the remainder of the day.
Quote Posted by Fidcal
I've waited years for it and it was so unaffordable that nobody was producing a decent sized TV or monitor.
Tell me about it. I was wanting to upgrade to one a bit after they were supposed to start showing up en masse in 2008. But here it is, near the end of 2010, and we're only now starting to see 30"+ OLED screens at electronic shows. Pisses me off.
(
http://www.oled-tv.asia/samsung-31-inch-oled-television/) But let me tell you, they look slick as shit. 9mm thick, and they can get thinner than that. The thinnest OLED I've seen was about 2mm thick. And the contrast ratio. 1,000,000:1. Even with the usual "we cheated on the tests to pad our numbers" results, to get anywhere near that high, it'd have to be almost equal to a CRT.
Morphi on 30/9/2010 at 20:45
What is your opinion regarding NVIDIA 3D Vision?
woah on 9/10/2010 at 03:42
Like many others, I'm sick of waiting for OLED (and even more unfortunate is the whole SED debacle), and LCDs just ruin the Thief experience for me. Luckily, I found an NEC FP2141SB (20" CRT) on ebay for $200 (completely new, unopened, never used). The size does not bother me--I just built myself a larger desk. It is beautiful.
Only issue I'm having now is with the graphics card (8800GTS512). You've really got to jump through some hoops to get the thing to display the game right, and it looks like I've got a ways to go (kinda tempted to buy an old Geforce 3 for a few bucks just to avoid the hassle).
