I don't like a lot about Dell these days but I think they make the best LCDs.
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I wouldn't buy a Samsung or any brand except a Dell. But this LCD monitor is four years old and it has a slow response time and other things that would not be on a new LCD. I can read much better, after four years of using this LCD, on the now 8.5 years old Trinitron even with a pitiful video card from ATI.nothing like the vivid colors I get with my nVidia card on the LCD.but the colors are not what make text is how black the letters are against white background and there is no comparison between my LCD and a Trinitron CRT monitor for rich black. But when I go use my old 98SE computer with the 17" Trinitron CRT monitor the first thing I notice is how black the black is on that monitor. Black not being really black is what makes an LCD hard to read at first.
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only the Plasmas can do that and the old tube TVs.especially the tube Trinitrons. The reason I want a Plasma TV instead of an LCD is because the LCDs cannot make black black. So, besides the fuzzy letters which now is fixed by Microsoft stealing ClearTweak and making it theirs maybe black is now really black on that Samsung. I have what was rated in 2003 by PCWorld tests and Consumer Reports tests as the best 19" LCD available but back then, at least, LCDs could not make black really black.and nothing like the black black on a Trinitron.
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But I had to learn how to read from an LCD screen. After I got ClearTweak, things were better. I loved the LCD from the moment I got it for graphics and hated it for text. Microsoft about a year or so later stole the application and put up a website page where the user could smooth the font and set contrast so the LCD had readable text. I had to install a third party application that allowed me to smooth the edges of the letters and allowed me to use a slider to get contrast. It is true, I found, that going from a Trinitron CRT to a flat panel digital LCD four years ago was very difficult for my eyes.