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19" or 21" CRT Recommendations Please
Hi,
Anyone care to recommend a good 19" or 21" CRT for use as my main monitor with my Parhelia card. 18"+ LCD's still to pricy and the colour and quality isn't as good as a CRT so only looking for CRT's at the moment (my other 2 monitors are LCD). Cheers |
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Having just researched this topic I do have some info to offer. I'd suggest talking to Jim at www.monitorsdirect.com . He doesn't work on commission and is VERY knowledgable and helpful.
Here are my notes from talking to him: THE best color: aperture grill, CRT conernerstone P1750; 22" uses mitsubitshi electronics for $649; If you don't like aperture grill and want a shadow mask instead or if that's more than you want to spend, the best choice is 19" Hitachi CM721F for only $266; plus shipping $25.82 Both these brands offer 3 year advance replacement warrenty meaning if something goes wrong they send you a replacement BEFORE you send in the faulty monitor. Good luck, Sheila |
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"Dan" wrote in message .. . Hi, Anyone care to recommend a good 19" or 21" CRT for use as my main monitor with my Parhelia card. 18"+ LCD's still to pricy and the colour and quality isn't as good as a CRT so only looking for CRT's at the moment (my other 2 monitors are LCD). One thing I would look at is what the recommended and maximum resolutions are for the displays -- you can find 19" monitors that aren't meant to do better than 1280x1024@75Hz, while others do 1600x1200@85Hz as the recommended resolution, and can be pushed even higher. CRTs are usually going to be blurry and might even have a shorter life if you push them higher than what's recommended. I'd also recommend a flat faced monitor, even though you pay a bit more. They're MUCH nicer to use. Unfortunately, Sony has stopped producing 19" CRTs, and the 21" ones are way to expensive. The Mitsubishi/Nec monitors seem like a good buy these days, as they have the same Trinitron tech as the Sony displays, and are very reasonably priced. Ilyama Visionmaster monitors are also quite popular, and good value, but I've seen problems reported using them with the Parhelia. If you don't want aperture grille (Trinitron and similar) monitors, but shadow mask, ViewSonic makes some that are pretty good value. To replace my aging 19" Sony, I read all I could find of reviews and user experiences, and looked at the prices, and decided to go with a Mitsubishi DP930SB for $305. The price difference between good 19" and 21" monitors didn't seem like it was worth it to me, and the cheap 21" monitors are quite frankly not good enough. Regards, -- *Art |
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"Arthur Hagen" wrote in message ... To replace my aging 19" Sony, I read all I could find of reviews and user experiences, and looked at the prices, and decided to go with a Mitsubishi DP930SB for $305. It turned out I made a BAD choice with the Diamond Pro 930SB, which I received yesterday. This monitor is no better than the very cheapest ones, and in many respects worse: - The recommended resolution of 1600x1200@85Hz is blurry -- I have to use 75Hz or 1280x960 to get rid of the blurriness. If installing the monitor ..inf file from Mitsubishi or Windows Update, the 1600x1200@85Hz setting disappears, indicating that Mitsubishi/Nec knows about this problem. - The display is vibrating, mostly vertically. - It has a max operating temperature of 90F, which is quite clearly too low, especially since the monitor isn't energyStar compliant and puts out huge amounts of heat itself. - The difference between a cold and a warm monitor is higher than on any other monitor I've seen the last 10 years -- when cold, the picture is half an inch taller than when warm. - There seems to be little or no reflective coating. - The edges of the plastic surrounding the display are highly reflective, causing a quite irritating reflection around the display. - The manual is terse, badly translated, doesn't match the monitor's functions, and lacks any kind of explanations. The aging Sony that it replaced had none of these problems (it was suffering from old age, where the picture was washed out), so I know it's the monitor and not the gfx card. My hope now is that MonitorDirect's return policy allows me to exchange it for something better. Cause this, quite frankly, is pathetic. Regards, -- *Art |
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I tend to like Sonys for quality of picture and long-life.
I prefer the largest screen possible, so I lean toward the 21" over the 19". Lease-return monitors that are 3 years old are commonplace. I got a Sony 19" for my daughter a year ago for $177 on eBay. You can get 21" Sonys for under $300. "Dan" wrote in message .. . Hi, Anyone care to recommend a good 19" or 21" CRT for use as my main monitor with my Parhelia card. 18"+ LCD's still to pricy and the colour and quality isn't as good as a CRT so only looking for CRT's at the moment (my other 2 monitors are LCD). Cheers |
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"horwinkle" wrote in message .. . I tend to like Sonys for quality of picture and long-life. I prefer the largest screen possible, so I lean toward the 21" over the 19". With Sony, there's no choice anymore, as they stopped producing 19" CRTs back in April. Lease-return monitors that are 3 years old are commonplace. I got a Sony 19" for my daughter a year ago for $177 on eBay. You can get 21" Sonys for under $300. Question is whether you can live with a low resolution like 1280 width or flickering at higher resolutions. If you want a steady 1600x1200 or higher resolution, it's going to cost you quite a bit more than that. Then again, it depends on what you're going to use it for. If it's web browsing, games and an occasional video, there's no need to splurge on higher resolutions and colour correctness, but if you want to work with graphics programs, or work with half a dozen windows at the same time, it becomes more essential. Sometimes it can be better to buy two (or more) less expensive monitors than one expensive one -- after all, Matrox cards usually give you at least two video heads. Regards, -- *Art |
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"Arthur Hagen" wrote in message ... "Arthur Hagen" wrote in message ... To replace my aging 19" Sony, I read all I could find of reviews and user experiences, and looked at the prices, and decided to go with a Mitsubishi DP930SB for $305. It turned out I made a BAD choice with the Diamond Pro 930SB, which I received yesterday. This monitor is no better than the very cheapest ones, and in many respects worse: - The recommended resolution of 1600x1200@85Hz is blurry -- I have to use 75Hz or 1280x960 to get rid of the blurriness. If installing the monitor .inf file from Mitsubishi or Windows Update, the 1600x1200@85Hz setting disappears, indicating that Mitsubishi/Nec knows about this problem. - The display is vibrating, mostly vertically. - It has a max operating temperature of 90F, which is quite clearly too low, especially since the monitor isn't energyStar compliant and puts out huge amounts of heat itself. - The difference between a cold and a warm monitor is higher than on any other monitor I've seen the last 10 years -- when cold, the picture is half an inch taller than when warm. - There seems to be little or no reflective coating. - The edges of the plastic surrounding the display are highly reflective, causing a quite irritating reflection around the display. - The manual is terse, badly translated, doesn't match the monitor's functions, and lacks any kind of explanations. The aging Sony that it replaced had none of these problems (it was suffering from old age, where the picture was washed out), so I know it's the monitor and not the gfx card. My hope now is that MonitorDirect's return policy allows me to exchange it for something better. Cause this, quite frankly, is pathetic. Hrm, I got a DP930SB from Dell for about $260 with free shipping. The first one I got was blurry near the bottom of the screen so I arranged for an exchange. The second one seems to have improved on the flaws of the first and has better geometry. 1600x1200@85Hz is a bit blurry on the DP but frankly it is the same on the Sony CPD-G410R I have sitting next to it. I installed Naviset which installed the monitor .inf and I still have 1600x1200@85Hz as an option. BTW my video card is a Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB so I'd imagine if you get a good DP930SB your display would look even better. |
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