Screen types

I've been reading a bit about the different screen types. It seems IBM thinkpads something called flexview on the some 15" screens, which improves the color and viewing angles. Sony has crystalview, and Fujitsu has xbrite. These both seem to have the same idea as flexview (I don't know which came out first, not giving ibm the credit or anthing). Does dell have anything like this? do they use screens which have similar technologies? Can dell screens compete with these new types of screens?
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Dell has Ultrasharp (superscript tm) which has better viewing angles and stuff in UXGA screens.

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Ah ok, thanks. I found some information about it on their website, its nice that they actually give you some numbers about the screen. I dont think the other companies do.
The ultrasharp screens have 25 ms response time on the 15" models, and 35 ms response time on the 15.4" models. I've read that to get rid of the ghosting effect you need to have around 15-17 ms.

How much of a difference would that make in a game or watching a dvd?

Does anyone know how this compares to the flexview, crystalview, and xbrite screens?

And I've seen people mention the xbrite screens glare coating, is that actually part of the screen? I saw that at best buy, but I figured it was some kind of protective screen put on the models because they were on display in stores.. If thats on the home models, that would be very distracting.

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I only notice ghosting in two situations:
1. When playing alien shooter. This game scrolls slowly but constantly so it blurs significantly.
2. When scrolling through text.

I never notice it when playing unreal tournament or anything like that. Many games will sync the framerate to the refresh rate of the screen, which cuts ghosting a lot.

It would make very little difference, except in those two situations. I, however, rarely use a CRT, so I can't tell you how much of a difference there is.

Crystalview is that glare coating, xbrite has a better backlight, and I don't know what flexview is. Ultrasharp is the only one that actually is a higher quality LCD. 25 ms is very, very good for a laptop. Only the highest performance desktop screens sport 12 ms response times, and 16ms is still limited to the high-end. After 25 ms it is hard to notice.

That glare coating is part of the screen, it is on every home version of the laptop. If it distracts you, don't buy from Sony.

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