mad professor leo

I code for a living. I need a lot of text on two screens at all times.
I need the best monitor possible so that my eyes will not burn out and I won’t be able to keep working.
If the company I work for did not buy me the hardware I need, I would go out and buy it myself.

I am a recent convert to lcd screens.

There are a couple of peculiarities about the ViewSonic VA903b that I have learned and want to share.
I have two of these, and for a little while I wanted to chuck them out with the bath water.

Two things that could be happening with the VA903b to give you a moire effect, a blurry image:

1) If you see ghosting of light letters on a dark background: check the cable on the back of the monitor, make sure it is plugged in properly.
Wiggle it a bit, and the ghosting dissappears. If the cable is too tight from being far from the computer, your image is bad.

2) Check the horizontal size of your screen. I noticed that the auto adjust does not automatically adjust the horizontonal size of the screen.
I also noticed that there is a sweet spot just under the total number of cells on the screen. This setting is *more* important then the “fine tune”
option on the “manual adjust” menu.

Having figured those two things out, I love my monitors way past my old CRTs. I don’t know that I could ever use a CRT again.