Images darker on some monitors than on others

Yes, but on a properly calibrated monitor, the brightness and contrast aren't full.

Hence my usage of the term "calibrated correctly" in my previous post

I have got an lcd, and regret it. The quality of crt's are so much better. I'm not an artist or photographer, but I do have a bitchin home cinema It's the same with TV's - everyone thinks plasmas are oh-so-cool, but it really depends on whether you want a monitor/tv that gives a good picture, or a monitor/tv to show off with.

If your crt is hurting your eyes that much then get a glare guard thing for like 15 quid.

For those of you who dont believe that color is better on crt - I googled and found an article that was very biased towards LCDs, but said this:


Your three shades of blue problem could probably be attributed to a "rounding error" as the lcd can't display two colours that close together it ended up rounding one up and one down.

3 shades of blue is not perceptable to the human eye - else we would be buggered doing any kind of blending

frist, I know this is pedantic, but it was 4 shades of blue.

Now I used to have a glare gaurd, it didn't help at all. I find that my laptop (and all other LCDs I have used) are much more comfortable on my eyes than any CRT. And most LCDs nowadays do not have the problem of pixels responding too slowly for video editing, only the really super-cheap bargain basement gear will have that problem.

sorry I can't resist:

now get out your calculators boys and girls, and take 252 away from 255..... 3 shades

anyway, the video editing thing just happened to be in the quote, but the number of colours does still stand - on any tft. You just don't get so many colours. If the tft is doing the equivalent of rounding the colors because it couldn't display them properly then this could spread them more shades apart. Go ask the monitor manufacturers. Ask television manufacturers. They will tell you the same, it just is not possible to get the same colour depth.

On a separate note - is the refresh rate on your monitor turned up - it might help your eyes.

I just set the refresh rate from 60 to 75 hertz, and haven't noticed any difference yet - my eyes are still sore as hell.

as for the 3 shades, ok well I stuffed up a bit on the maths there

the colours, OK, maybe you can't get the same colour depth. but after running with the refresh rate up for about 30 seconds I still prefer LCDs. I'll see what it's like in an hours' time.

The refresh rate should help after a little while - when I started my job in september I was getting one or two migraines a week. After turning the refresh rate it slowly died down. Don't expect instant results though

60 hz is far to low - your eyes have been getting knackered by flicker that you can't actually see but can sense.... 72hz minimum. Hope it helps