Every LCD panel has problems right now: dead pixels, lit pixels, IPS glow, viewing angle issues, lighting bleed, bad lighting uniformity, backlight buzz (audible buzzing), colour quality issues, banding or sharpness issues (hard to explain tersely), ghosting, response time, anti-glare coating problems (not all matte and glossy coatings are the same), cost, return policies, and a few others I'm not going to get into (
crap like this -- nice QA!). All of these independently are affected by panel type (TN vs. IPS vs. MVA vs. PVA vs. PLS -- and many of those have sub-types, i.e. S-IPS, E-IPS, H-IPS, S-PVA, etc.). My point is that the list of issues is quite literally never-ending. Sure, CRTs have their share of issues too, but most of those pertained to bowing/trapezoid/shape issues, dot pitch, and sometimes refresh rate. The LCD dead/lit pixel issue and how manufacturers justify it still chaps my ass to this day --
the entire point of a monitor/display is to show all the visual data (pixel) sent to it across the wire. Failure to show that data, to me, is a defective product. Instead consumers are being taught to "expect some degree" of failure -- it's like they want people to believe LCDs are the display equivalent of JPEG (lossy compression). Utter fucking nonsense.
And don't get me started on the fuckwadery that is
shit like this.
The only LCD displays I've seen that are utterly amazing are the ones used in Vewlix arcade cabinets -- which you practically have to take out a bank loan to afford.
While I'm ranting I am absolutely sick and ired of the 1080 pixel fixation that has no justification whatsoever (I repeat:
no justification. For example my 1920x1200 monitor is 16:10, but oh my god, imagine that, every DVD player including MPC-HC shows the movie in the correct aspect ratio! OMG, math is too hard, let's just use 1080 everywhere, nobody needs those extra vertical pixels. It amazes me that people given even a slight fuck about "black bars" on the sides or top of a display during full-screen playback. Am I the only one who remembers first-gen plasma and LCD TVs which defaulted to
showing white instead of black when doing proper aspect ratio scaling? Yeah, I remember the justification, and boy that really caught on didn't it?).
And don't get me started on the fact that DPI on desktop displays is utter shit compared to things like handheld devices, and again, for no justified reason.
OLED and similar technologies, at affordable prices, just can't get here soon enough.
I say all this while happily using a Dell 2407WFP (revision A02) LCD, which sadly is a power-hungry bastard due to its older backlighting (CFL), and its response time is ass (effectively something like 40ms due to the crappy/laggy display chip they're using). I tried a Dell U2412M (LED backlit) a couple weeks ago and it looked perfect and had significantly less ghosting/latency... except for
this bullshit (IPS glow) which, even in a well-lit room, made reading any text/data in the corners (roughly a 5-inch area) impossible. How does this shit get past QA? Otherwise the monitor was beautiful, but even viewed head-on that glow made the thing look like shit. Seems overall I'm going to have to stick to PLS or S-PVA panels exclusively (
here's a nice comparison between PLS and PVA), but I can't justify spending that kind of money right now. I paid US$650 for my 2407WFP many years ago when they came out, and I'm very lucky I got the A02 revision (since A01 had massive problems, and A03 and A04 introduced insane banding issues -- the only issue the A02 has has to do with some red/pink or green "trails" when panning/scrolling certain text/colours, and that can be worked around by choosing very specific RGB values in the colour temp OSD).
P.S. -- It's your fault for bringing LCDs into the discussion. Look what you did! :P