My partner is a system adminstrator for a major corporation in this
area. The last shipment of fairly highly touted but "consumer grade"
CRTs for his company proved to be a disaster: the monitors were so
bad that he and the engineers who use them were experiencing
headaches and seriously wondering if they needed new eyeglasses. They
were bad enough that he went out and bought (out of his own pocket) a
cheap, used 15" flat panel screen for his own use at the office so
that he could work without a headache...
Six months later, the company acted on the many complaints and en
masse replaced all the CRTs with LCD displays. Not a single complaint
has surfaced since regarding monitor display quality.
I'd strongly recommend any current 15-17" flat panel display over any
comparably priced CRT today. You get more viewable area, better
stability, better color rendering, and the current generation of
inexpensive CRTs have become garbage. You can buy high-quality, good
condition, used 17" LCD flat panel displays for $300-500.
Godfrey
On Nov 19, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Mat Maessen wrote:
My experience with LCD's right now is that the ones that really are
decent, and good enough for image processing work, are still
expensive. I am probably going to stick with my 21" CRT (Mitsubishi
DiamondScan) for a while longer.
CRT monitors are available used, in fact, I've seen decent 19-20"
trinitron screens going for $100 or so. It's a matter of looking
around, and trying out a monitor before you buy it.
Something like http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?
p=ItemDetail&item=MON10136
might work nicely, if you have the space for such a behemoth, and
don't mind paying shipping (or driving? Are you in California?).
-Mat
On 11/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a HP Pavilion, with a 17" quite decent monitor (actually I
am not sure
it's a 15", but not quite sure how to measure it). Only I've had
both for
about, hmmm, four years. I've been told/read the HP monitors are
actually
Trinitron.
I've been quite happy with the monitor. Only now the horizontal
hold is
going. Actually, not sure what it is called. It's not exactly
vertical hold, but
sometimes boxes coming up on the screen (dialog box type of
things), the right
side of the box it is not always straight. It curves in and out a
bit. I keep
adjusting the horizontal stretch part of my monitor and that
straightens it up
for a bit.
But it means it is going to get worse. No point in having it
fixed, since
some monitors are really cheap now. Only I was looking on the Net
and LCDs are
selling better.
Personally, for extended use, not just doing photography, but
programming,
using word processing/spread sheets, I prefer a CRT. It seems much
easier on my
eyes. LCDs, to my eyes, don't have enough "depth."
And a lot of LCDs are expensive. The ones that may be easier on
the eyes are,
anyway.
This CRT at Circuit City seems okay.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/HP-Monitor-MX705-/sem/rpsm/oid/
126673/catOid/-1
2965/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
But I also want to get something decent for processing digital
photographs.
It would probably be fine, because my current HP monitor is fine.
And I use my
monitor for a lot more than processing photographs, photography
probably works
out to only 10-20% of my use. Or less.
Just wondering if anyone has that particular model, or has some other
recommendation.
Also looks like if I want a CRT I better move quick, because they
seem to be
disappearing.
Marnie aka Doe
