What Screen resolution are you using?
Doesn't everyone crank up the res as high as the monitor will go :
Unless of course their visually impaired in which case its to what suits them.
Now where did my monitor go
Not if you have an LCD display... They only have one resolution...
My brother has an old 20" flat CRT which I'd like to use for photo work, just need to get it here somehow. It weighs half a ton...
I discovered this years ago purely by accident when I used somebody elses screen and didn't suffer a headache. The reason was their screen was set to 70 or maybe 75Hz.
Remedy: Change the lighting to tungsten bulbs or increase the refresh rate of your monitor.
I've never experienced this issue with flat panels.
Often, this problem is caused when CRT's are set to 60Hz refresh rate in offices having fluorescent lighting. Crt @ 60Hz + lighting @ 50Hz = 10Hz difference, which the eye/brain can detect and react to. This exact scenario used to cause me very bad headaches (literally) across the top of my eyes.
I discovered this years ago purely by accident when I used somebody elses screen and didn't suffer a headache. The reason was their screen was set to 70 or maybe 75Hz.
Remedy: Change the lighting to tungsten bulbs or increase the refresh rate of your monitor.
I've never experienced this issue with flat panels.
TFT pannels don't have a refresh rate because they don't draw the image. They still update in lines because that is how GPUs work, but they could update in one go given enough bandwidth. The cold cathode tube behind a TFT pannel runs on DC therefore not 'flashing'.
One bad thing is cold cathode TFTs use a polariser, LED TFTs have no need for one which is one reason they produce better colours.
So when I used to have a CRT monitor I always had it set to the highest res it could do at 85Hz, which on my 17" was 1024x768.
1280x1024 at 60 on a 17.4" TFT LCD
That would hurt my eyes. The recommended minimum refresh rate, if I recall correctly, is 75.
G
I sometimes go back to 1024x768 at 75.
All other rates are grayed out at that resolution, so no choice there.
I sometimes go back to 1024x768 at 75.
I select the resolution that makes almost all websites readable and has a refresh rate of at least 85.
G
1280x1024 at 60 on a 17.4" TFT LCD
That would hurt my eyes. The recommended minimum refresh rate, if I recall correctly, is 75.
G
On a CRT, couldn't agree more
on a TFT refresh rate makes no difference since the panel doesn't refresh the way CRTs do, you don't get flicker on a TFT.
In fact, my (admittedly cheap) TFT gives a blurred image at 75Hz and crystal clear at 60, so you really can't apply CRT thinking about refresh rates to TFTs.
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Unless of course their visually impaired in which case its to what suits them.
Now where did my monitor go
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