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Dear Pedro, there is no cheap solution for now, the 3D community has to wait for a few years more I think to be presented with a good stereo-capable LCD. The problem is not the refresh rate (as low as 5 ms nowadays) but it is the after glow effect... that is one of the reasons why LCDs provide a stable picture at just 60 Hz refresh rate in contrast to CRTs that look stable at 85 - 100 Hz. The cheapest solution is still the good old CRT (there are still a few around) with nuvision stereo glasses. For example, you can still buy the Samsung SyncMaster 1100MB that has sufficient rates (Vert x Hori 160 Hz x 130 kHz) to do the job. If you can, wait a few years ... Jeroen. p.s. There are also some (more expensive) active stereo beamers around (we own an Infocus DepthQ) and they provide a nice active stereo picture on the wall: - http://www.digital-image.de/ - http://www.depthq.com/ Pedro M. Matias wrote: > At USD 7000 it's not exactly the cheap solution I was looking for... > > At 10:46 04-02-2008, Andrew Raine wrote: >> Anastassis Perrakis wrote: >> >>> While we are on the subject, does anyone in general have working in >>> their labs a stereo-3D solution that does not require CRT monitors >>> but works on LCD and preferably with Linux or OSX ? (any windows >>> hints are welcome as well). >> >> Yes indeed. We have a 20" one of these: >> >> http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/product.php?URL_=product_stereovis_omnia_mimo&SubCatID_=3 >> >> >> on one of our Linux workstations. After the original Acer screens >> were swapped for Samsung ones it is excellent. People like it for >> the lack of flicker and consequent lack of headaches! It has a wide >> angle of view, and several people can see stereo on the same screen >> at the same time, and there is no cross-talk between different >> displays in the same room. >> >> It needs to be driven by an nVidia FX-series graphics card, with dual >> DVI outputs. Other cards with dual outputs can be made to work, but >> the nVidia driver can intercept the conventional quad-buffered screen >> swapping instructions and divert the two eye views tot he different >> displays. Thus most software that is already stereo-capable will >> work without modification. >> >> In case this sounds a little too glowing, I should point out that I >> have no connection with the suppliers or the manufacturers, except as >> a customer! >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> Dr. Andrew Raine, Head of IT, MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, >> Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2XY, UK >> phone: +44 (0)1223 252830 fax: +44 (0)1223 252835 >> web: www.mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk email: [log in to unmask] > > Industry and Medicine Applied Crystallography > Macromolecular Crystallography Unit > ___________________________________ > Phones : (351-21) 446-9100 Ext. 1669 > (351-21) 446-9669 (direct) > Fax : (351-21) 441-1277 or 443-3644 > > email : [log in to unmask] > > Mailing address : > Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica > Apartado 127 > 2781-901 OEIRAS > Portugal