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RayB:

Black levels don't really matter or become noticable except when viewing at night/dark room.


TOK:


--- Quote from: RayB on May 31, 2009, 12:37:24 pm ---Black levels don't really matter or become noticable except when viewing at night/dark room.


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That is exactly the way I always want my gameroom. I can't tell if you're saying the black level is important or not.  ;D

To me, its crucial. A tinted bezel helped the black level on mine considerably.

genesim:

Even in pitch black I don't see what the fuss is all about...even my worst LCD looks pretty darn black.

As far as my top end LCD I watch movies at night and Dark Night is one of the blackest movies I know....black is frickin' black.   

1UP:


--- Quote from: genesim on May 31, 2009, 03:05:22 pm ---Even in pitch black I don't see what the fuss is all about...even my worst LCD looks pretty darn black.

As far as my top end LCD I watch movies at night and Dark Night is one of the blackest movies I know....black is frickin' black.   

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Put on a movie that is letterboxed, something really widescreen like 2.2:1 where you can see the bars on a 16:9 screen.  Or play Asteroids.  If you can see a difference between the black of your screen and the black of the bezel, then it's not that black.  You'll see it when watching digital TV a lot--dark scenes where there is a lot of discolored blocky garbage in the blacks, which can be compensated for somewhat by upping the contrast a bit.  (I have to laugh when companies claim "blu-ray quality" on their HD channels since there is a huge difference between resolution and quality.)

For blu-ray movies it's not that big a deal since the quality is much better than TV, and even film rarely gets completely black, but with old games that have mostly black screens, there's a big difference between an LCD screen that is trying to cover the backlight with black pixels, and a vector tube that is not projecting light in the black areas at all, with vectors that are blazingly bright because they are being drawn by an electron beam aiming at your face.    :o

Ummon:


--- Quote from: RayB on May 31, 2009, 12:37:24 pm ---Black levels don't really matter or become noticable except when viewing at night/dark room.


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I can see it, even in a brightly-lit room.



--- Quote from: DJ_Izumi on May 30, 2009, 02:01:29 am ---The forum moderators either need to ban genesim or ban all discussions of monitors because clearly the two can't coexist. :/

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Hahahahah. Something like that. He totally interjected and ejaculated irrelevant data into this thread.



--- Quote from: TheShanMan on May 30, 2009, 12:21:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ummon on May 29, 2009, 07:24:41 pm ---Ahem. Most people claim that vector games seen at 15khz, or say on a TV, blow. Well they do (on the latter, and regular mame can't even fit them to the screen at 15khz)....unless you have the proper emulator to display them with. Advancemame, of course.

This isn't 'hey, look how good this is compared to a PC monitor or LCD', let alone a vector monitor. It's 'look how good it can be if you're constrained to CGA resolutions'.

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You didn't explain yourself, hence the responses. You said "killer vectors" without saying that you're comparing it to what you'd normally see in mame. So of course you're going to get a lot of responses from vector purists saying they aren't so killer.

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The data was all there. Reading comprehension: "at 15khz". Next were the tab menu shots. Admittedly, the title was a slight melodramatic, but those in the know regarding monitors and all should've understood the sentence.

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