There are flat panels and there are flat panels.
The one on my iBook and my friend's 17" iMac suffer from the viewing
angle problem.
My 22" Apple Cinema Display doesn't. I can be at an extreme angle and
the colors are fine.
It may not pass a Pantone test, but on all calibration protocalls I've
run I can see all the differences from lightest to darkest and all the
other stuff I'm supposed to see.
Using ColorSync, my prints look just like what I see on the screen.
From what I hear Samsung makes the Apple displays.
I'm done with flickering, hot, noisy, hair raising CRTs.

today at the post office the gal said their IBM <>12" displays have been
online for 5yrs w/one of five failing (early, bad focus?).  that's nothing
about color, but it does sound encouraging.  i _think_ they are color.

i bit on the technology this week, based on a post in rcm (damn, Usenet
is supposed to be free  ;-).  the 17" Viewsonic is 95% of a 19" crt and
359 buks at Costco, does 1280x1084, great horz view angle, more than you
need.  vertical is improved but distant 2nd to a crt.    --Loren

Well, I would trade the "desk space" for a better color gamut without hesitation!

The matter of fact is that we do not know how good the LCD screens
match the color gamut of the CRT's. We know meanwhile that LCD screen
does not have the large durability as we have suspected. Especially
the blue pixels fade away at a larger rate than the phosphor in
the olle big bulky CRT's.  Texas Instruments has recently contracted
a 7*24 (around the clock) test of LCD screens, but they are partisan.
They would like everybody to use DLP technology instead!

We also know from PC World report that LCD screen manufacturers
are in a bitter competition to each other, what made them lie about
contrast values and other performance parameters. NEC even filed
a law suite against Viewsonic!

We really need some serious lab tests of LCD in a well established
test environment.

Thomas

I spent a small fortune on a Sony TFT display about a year ago and
have not regretted it. The refresh rate and resolution is better than
most CRT displays. It does not have a viewing angle problem throughout
my normal movement range which is about 30%. I can't think of any
reason to look at a monitor from a greater angle. The huge advantage
of TFT displays are the saving in desk space.

Steve

Sorry if this topic has been covered before...if so, steer me in the right
direction. I have PS on a laptop and want to use a desktop monitor. Which
type is better for editing photographs, LCD or CRT? I have a TFT screen on
my laptop and the color saturation changes with the position of the screen.
Thanks for your help,
Oscar