I'd prefer not to stray too much from the original question I asked, but a list of faults are:
Not pure 24 bit color; most panels, if not all, dither 18 bit to produce 16.2 million colors, as opposed to the real 16.7 of an analog display. The 0.5 million color difference is not the issue, the dithering is.
No good black level. I regard this as absolutely important.
Viewing angle. It may be getting better, but it's still not as good as CRTs.
Native resolution. I run a multitude of resolutions. TFT's make that inherently ugly, because the pixels are fixed in a grid, and the image needs to be interpolated.
Responsiveness. That too is getting better, but it's still not perfect.
Linearity. A lot of monitors have a non linear response, meaning for example that the first 10% of the brightness range is just all black. My T766 shows a clear difference in black and 1% brightness.
Color discreteness. Colors which are nearly identical should be distinguishable. Nokia monitor tester, for example, shows a gradient of red green and blue in the index screen. But this is not a smooth gradient, but it consists of color bars. A lot of TFTs don't display the bars.
Recently I saw a Mac (don't know which type), which had pretty good TFT screen. I must say I was impressed. But I didn't see it in the dark, so I can't make a final judgment. |
