When looking @ a crt device, my tft seems blurry to me

[snowdog]

Now, this is most noticable for me, when i watch tv for a long time, when I look at my tft mon, the stuff just looks very odd and blurred to me ( looks normall when not looking @ a crt screen for longer periods b4 it, ie as a normall same as all screens), now recently, I noticed this also happens with after looking long @ my crt dell monitor, is there any explanation for this?
It's hard to explain, it doesnt look blurred in like, hard to read, and watery, but it does look, well its hard to explain.

Crt is running 85hz 1280 res, tft same res but 75 hz instead.


Any ideas why?

EDIT PFFF, wrong place, meant to post this in monitors forums, is there anything I can do or do I have to wait for a don to move it for me, apologies for posting in wrong place .

 

[semi-pro waster]

I can't remember off the top of my head but doesn't CRT use a form of anti-aliasing because of the way it is designed while a tft has pixels that are either on or off.

Also I've RTM'd the post to ask for it to be moved.

 

[Dutch Guy]

Your eyes need to adjust to the way a TFT works compared to a CRT

 

[Slogan]

Your eyes need to adjust to the way a TFT works compared to a CRT

Ah, so that's why I've been seeing an outline of everything.

 

[fish99]

Which TFT is it and are you using it at native resolution? Turning on cleartype can help make text more solid and readable on some TFTs.

 

[Baddass]

switch the refresh rate on the TFT to 60Hz too, they dont operate in the same way as CRT's do, and the optimum and recommended refresh rate for a TFT is 60Hz. Can often help improve sharpness. Also if you can use DVI over VGA then that's worth doing

 

[Clarkey]

it IS running in native resolution, right??

1280x960 is what you should be using on a CRT, 17/19" TFT screens have a slightly narrower (5:4) ratio and use 1280x1024.

 

[snowdog]

No, 2 diff reso's for dualview is awfull, i prefer a streched image and an identical reso. I don't notice the streching anyhow.

I don't know what it's optimal reso is of the crt, but running it @ 1280x1024 85hz, it can do 1600x1200 75 hz max.

As for the tft, monitor doesn't have dvi. The monitor itself isn't burry normally, only after looking @ a crt for longer than half an hour for example, then my tft loosk blurry.

Still find it odd my eyes have to adjust so long to the tft, takes upto 5 mins usually for the image to not look blurred on my tft after looking @ crt's for longer periods.

 

[200sx]

what's the make and models of your two monitors? what resolution and refresh rate are they set to? Without this information no one has got a chance of helping you.

 

[snowdog]

what's the make and models of your two monitors? what resolution and refresh rate are they set to? Without this information no one has got a chance of helping you.

My tft: I have no idea, Nvidia cp lists it as a Deawoo Tft Lcd, on the mon itself it says ''XXXXX'' ( cant say, its an ocuk compedator I think, a dutch pc shop's name anyhow, prolly rebadged to be used as a company mon... ) , my crt is a dell P790, but as said, all crt devices cause my tft to look blurry, even my tv...

 

[200sx]

My tft: I have no idea, Nvidia cp lists it as a Deawoo Tft Lcd, on the mon itself it says ''XXXXX'' ( cant say, its an ocuk compedator I think, a dutch pc shop's name anyhow, prolly rebadged to be used as a company mon... ) , my crt is a dell P790, but as said, all crt devices cause my tft to look blurry, even my tv...

resolution and refresh rate of yours displays?

Is your LCD widescreen?

 

[fobose]

resolution and refresh rate of yours displays?

Is your LCD widescreen?

Did you not read the original post?

Crt is running 85hz 1280 res, tft same res but 75 hz instead.

I don't know what it's optimal reso is of the crt, but running it @ 1280x1024 85hz, it can do 1600x1200 75 hz max.

 

[200sx]

Did you not read the original post?

Funnily enough yes I did!

'1280 res', what the hell is that? 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1280x720???

As we all know, TFTs run natively at 60hz. Now in my experience to run one at 75hz requires it to be running at less than native resolution. Hence the 'blurriness'.

Try reading between the lines next time fobose

 

[fobose]

Erm. My friend has 2x Hitachi 17" TFT's both at 1280x1024 running at 75Hz.

Also as you can see above in my quotes, snowdog says he runs his CRT and TFT at the same resolution (he says 1280 only on first post) but on another post he says his CRT is running in 1280x1024..so you read between the lines next time.

 

[200sx]

Erm. My friend has 2x Hitachi 17" TFT's both at 1280x1024 running at 75Hz.

Also as you can see above in my quotes, snowdog says he runs his CRT and TFT at the same resolution (he says 1280 only on first post) but on another post he says his CRT is running in 1280x1024..so you read between the lines next time.

Lol! you're assuming he's using a 5:4 aspect ratio monitor! Which would have course translate to to him running native resolution.

Now what if it was a widescreen? He mentions he'd rather have a 'stretched' image. What could that mean? Could it mean he's got a widescreen monitor running at 1280x1024? Shock horror! Blurred display!

It is of course entirely possible he is referring to 5:4 image on a crt being stretched to 4:3.

75Hz on a TFT? why on earth would you set it to 75Hz?

 

[fobose]

This is true, but unless he has a 20" WS he wouldn't be able to to run at 1280x1024 as you cant run higher than native resolution (19" ws is 1440x900 for example), and he does say his monitor is a Daewoo and I could be wrong but I dont know of any 20" + Daewoo's?

<edit> just googled and found a 22" daewoo - although its DVI and he said his monitor is only VGA

 

[200sx]

I'm still trying to work out which monitor he's got, his clues are a bit weak.

Some monitors can display images of a higher resolution than their native pixel count would suggest, usually LCD TVs, the ones which use monitor panels

 

[fobose]

75Hz on a TFT? why on earth would you set it to 75Hz?

Didn't see this earlier. His TFT's are about 6 years old I think, I am sure they was designed to run at that Hz, they are perfect, excellent quality and fine for gaming even on such an old panel.

 

[Clarkey]

yes 60hz for the TFT, in my experience anything other than 60hz (even 59hz) results in a subtle fuziness.

 

[james.miller]

what get's me is that 60hz being optimal thing. 60hz (1/60th of a second) is 16ms. see where that's heading?

Now in my experience to run one at 75hz requires it to be running at less than native resolution. Hence the 'blurriness'.

Never have i ever seen that. Tell me, what tft's require to run a non-native res in order to display at 75hz