Well, with all these competing technologies just around the corner from release (laser, FED, SED, OLED) they all promise pretty much phenomenal performance over current LCDs. The LCD technology is an every increasing one, but i feel it has hit a major speed bump recently, and that is its measurement of dark and light contrast as well as pixel response. Its wasn't to long ago that Samsung found a new way of measuring contrast, which basically just gave bloated numbers to an already sketchy measurement system. An LCD manufacturer should state their black and white luminescence numbers, as that is the real way to measure a LCD displays contrast. Lastly, it seems that the grey to grey measurement is on the rise, and while usually only being about 4-6 ms slower than black to white, its still misleading. I feel all this dishonesty is just hurting the market, and i think it will catch up to them once these emerging technologies are released.
Well, I'm sure eventually something will surpass LCD, but it's going to be determined by marketing and if the consumer really wants it. Like CRT, LCD won't be around forever.
I can see why CRT monitors went away, they were big and used a lot of power, thats pretty much it. LCDs generally still cost more, and performed worse. The only reason Plasma has pretty much disappeared is because its just so expensive to manufacture, as well they have a short lifespan. Now, as far as LCD vs everything else, i think LCD still has some staying power, for example, they constantly get cheaper and cheaper to manufacture, and have an ever increasing performance. While all of the upcoming competing technologies are MUCH better in performance, it will ultimately come down to cost, if they can't compete with LCD prices, there won't be much of a market for them. A little off topic, but i really don't understand why CRT and especially rear projection TVs went away. Yeah, CRTs could only realistically get a certain size, but still. Again, rear projection TVs were quite large as well, but i guess the slimfit versions of ether technology were a too little to late, even though rear projection TVs and CRTs perform WAY better than LCD especially for the price.
I still can't fathom why the stupid 5:4 aspect ratio is the mainstream of "regular" LCD displays (not counting wide-screen, that is). The standard has been 4:3 ratio since like the 50's, why switch now? And if switch, why only half-switch? All the 17" and 19" monitors are 5:4, whereas 15" and ~20" monitors are all 4:3? Wtf?? (Of course, 17 & 19 inch are the most popular, that's why I say those are mainstream.) And even for widescreen, there are at least two different aspect ratios to choose from... Why is it so all-over-the-place? And most importantly, why, why did they come up with the 5:4 thing?? I just don't get the logic. So, if those new techs you're listing are more reasonable about this, I'll probly go with them over LCD lol. (If it's not too expensive)
aspect ratio is determined by the panel and native resolution, which is why you get different aspect ratios for different resolutions for different sized monitors. 5:4 came about because of the cheap and simple SXGA, same goes for WXGA and 16:10.
Hm, okay, but I don't understand why would 1280x1024 be especially good for SXGA (not really sure what that is) as opposed to, for example, 1280x960 (that would be a 4:3).
Hm, I just remembered this thread since I recently got a new monitor. You know what else bugs me endlessly about LCD's? The fact that even fully reputable companies like Samsung and every other one on the market, even after all these years since LCD's first came to mass market... STILL CANNOT MAKE A SINGLE MONITOR THAT HAS THE SAME COLOR REPRODUCTION EVERYWHERE ON THE SCREEN! Lol. Isn't it kind of sad, really? Every single LCD I've ever used has darker colors at the top of the screen than it does at the bottom. My BenQ FP93GX, which had glowing reviews on newegg when I bought it, has it. This Samsung 203B that I just got has it even worse (admittedly it's a discontinued model but still only 1-2 yrs. since it first came out). And the Dell monitors we have at my University almost everywhere have it so badly that when I look at my gmail inbox, the bottom of the screen literally makes it look as if all the read/unread messages are reversed. The first time I saw that I honestly got confused and started clicking on my read messages thinking they were new. Lol.
