You'd be surprised. These were top of the line LCD displays at the time and for good reason. Pixel response time was very fast to the point where motion blur was hardly a problem, and on top of that as mentioned above they also have BFI which reduces persistence blur that all flat panels have otherwise. Their color is indeed very accurate and they also have a wide viewing angle (not that it matters much unless we're talking about the larger 32'' models).bobrocks95 wrote:Can't find exactly how old it is but it has a fluorescent backlight so sounds pretty old to me. If it does have a fast response time, it's probably because it has a TN panel with horrible viewing angles and very poor contrast. Even with an IPS, VA, or some other variant LCD panel, any LCD tech has improved drastically since then and I don't see how these displays would be worth having at all.
The only problem is that at this point most are not only very old but also very used, and they are prone to developing aging problems with stuck pixels, backlight bleeding, and such. If you can find one in good performing state for a low price they 100% beat most consumer options available today, at least for SD content.
Yeah it's exactly alternating black lines in between the fields like the OSSC and Retrotink's "CRT simulate" mode can do. The combination of the particular response time speed of these panels makes this effect work very well though, producing a highly CRT-like interlaced picture (also for 1080i). Not the same as a "lace" method though.xeos wrote:The native scan mode sounds interesting, but... Wouldn't that be very similar visually to what the OSSC produces when you use alternating 100% black scanlines for 480i content? In my experience the interlacing artifacts are quite visible in this mode; in essence it's close to the "lace" deinterlacing method because LCDs can't turn a pixel black instantly. Perhaps the LMD-2300 has ultra fast response time to address this?
Note that this is a feature of the PVM models, and not available on the inferior LMD models.
The interlaced mode only works when native scan is enabled (which presents the picture pixel matched for SD and 720p, or x2 integer scaled for SD). Since the panels are 120Hz, they can do BFI by simply blacking out every other frame.
The BVM LCDs also had all these features and are better monitors. The later OLED models do as well, which are of course vastly superior monitors (and instead of BFI they use a scanning bar which is more effective, and they also lose no brightness from it).