The point is only CRTs have refresh rates. If you see ghosting of the cursor with an LCD, then it has to be its response time. The Dell 20" LCD has about a 16ms response time. If that's even accurate, it's equivalent to about a 62.5Hz CRT refresh rate, when it comes to moving objects. As for 100Hz LCD TVs, it just means they are capable of displaying 100 frames per second. That requires a sufficently fast response time (at least 10 ms).
But the thing is Dell is using LG Philip panel, which is basically the same as all the high end LCDs. There's nothing you can do with the response time. Most high end ones concentrate on color accuracy. I'm probably going to buy a color calibrator to solve that problem.
Yup, nothing you can do about the response time. But the response time should improve over time. Alternatively, you can opt for faster panels like TN panels. They have something like response times of 4 ms to 8 ms, which gives you a CRT-like refresh rate of 125Hz to 250Hz.
I value color accuracy far more than response time, something which CRT excels in both. Give and take. Anyone interested in this? http://www.integrated-color.com/Mer...Code=CEDP-D&Category_Code=Display+Calibration
There's a PC version. We can always share this among us. Each of us will only use it everytime we buy a new monitor, which is not a lot.
If you can see ghosting on a 16ms-panel, your eyes or the panel itself must be "damaged" ... or even both. ^^
My main monitor is a 21" trinitron. Great for movies. It takes two people to move it any distance and it uses a lot of power. I got it for 25$ - everybody dropping their good crt's for lcd's. I have four monitors with 5 bnc's on the back- all cheap throwways.
Newer CRT TVs were 100Hz. You wont see the flicker i believe. My sister's LCD TV is 120Hz samsung (auto motion) 1st time looking at it, I was not used to the smoothing. They really made motion look smoother...........
Yeah, 100Hz for TV will eliminate flicker - very important. Can't live without it once you tried it. It's quite different for LCDs though - they don't have flicker. 120Hz for LCDs appear to generate extra frames to make the scene look smoother. But sometimes you want to retain the jerkiness of the scene (e.g. Saving Private Ryan), not have it turn into superfluid motion!
CRTs are still very good in response time, contrast, color. LCD only has a few advantages, size, lack of geometry distortion, and power consumption.