Movie looks grainy on LCD

[copiador]

I just got an 17in LCD and I noticed that my movie file from digital camcorder looks "grainy" compared to CRT screen. The movie file is uncompressed AVI imported using MovieMaker 2. With LCD, the native resolution is 1280x1024 and I ran the CRT at 1024x768. I am using TMPGEnc to edit it.

Is this "grainy" appearance normal?

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

On an LCD - yes. LCDs are generally a much poorer image quality than a CRT. They are softer, give the appearance of grain, and really should only be used on a PC that is being used for word processing and not much else. They should never have been sold as televisions.

You will make the problem much worse by not running the display at it's native resolution. Because of the way LCDs work, then only work well at one resolution, they work OK at half that resolution, and anything else is a soft, fuzzy compromise.

When my last monitor died a couple of months ago I replaced it with a CRT because no one has yet produced an LCD that can match the picture quality or colour fidelity.