OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Eactivist
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 horiz

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Mat Maessen
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" tr

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
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 wo

RE: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 2:40 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: Cheap Monitor 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

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 11/19/2005 11:40:53 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 in

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 11/19/2005 11:51:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes there are MANY junk crts on the market, but the high end ones outperform even the best LCDs. and the thing is you can get NEW old stock high end CRTS for the same or less on EBAY than any of the LCDs cur

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 11/19/2005 10:57:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I KNEW someone would recommend a LCD anyway. :-) I don't like to waste money on poor quality monitors. Maybe my laptop is nothing to go by, but it's a pretty good laptop, and the display gives me a headache. I don't like the mat effect

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread keith_w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/19/2005 11:51:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes there are MANY junk crts on the market, but the high end ones outperform even the best LCDs. and the thing is you can get NEW old stock high end CRTS for the same or less on E

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" Subject: Re: OT: Cheap Monitor 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:

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Rob Studdert
On 19 Nov 2005 at 14:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe my laptop is nothing to go by, but it's a pretty good laptop, and the > display gives me a headache. I don't like the mat effect etc. I also invested > in > a Spyder fairly recently, which is unnecessary for a LCD. Not quite true, I've ca

Re: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-19 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:56 PM, William Robb wrote: ... My guess is that was the problem in your friends office as well. He changed all the settings, refresh rates included, several times trying to find a solution. The CRTs were junk. Godfrey

RE: OT: Cheap Monitor

2005-11-20 Thread Jaume Lahuerta
Almost 1 year ago, my LG 17" CRT 'collapsed'. Since the LCD size that I really like (19") was too expensive at that time, I went for a new 17" CRT. I chose a Samsung (SyncMaster 793) with a flat screen (not rounded) and good specs (refresh rate, dot size,...) that went for the equivalent of about 1