Anyone miss,,,,,CRT?

Dist said:
My crt is slightly fuzzy and has some minor burn in, but the reason I still use it is that if I was to go for a 24" monitor, trying to get a monitor that has no input lag, no ghosting, perfect viewing angles, no dead pixels, great blacks and good colours is very expensive.

I don't usually keep up too much with monitor tech, but most of it still seems you can get panels with great colours and blacks which are fantastic for movies, or panels for gaming with no ghosting or input lag, but suffers with colours or other stuff. And nearly no monitor has a 0 dead pixel policy, and I just wouldn't want to have to put up spending £400+ on a decent 24" that has dead pixels.
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Whatever he said.

Panel technology is still very backwards in my opinion, compared to CRT displays for which the manufacturing process had been reduced to peanuts, and reliability was extremely high.

Size is what sold it to the masses over CRT, definitely not picture quality. The size did come at a significant cost though in my opinion.
 
I never had any high end CRT's but those that did was the screen flat? I'll always remember CRT's as fishbowls. Plus half your desk or corner of the room taken.
 
V F said:
I never had any high end CRT's but those that did was the screen flat? I'll always remember CRT's as fishbowls. Plus half your desk or corner of the room taken.
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Some CRT were quality flat screens yes very nice, they just cost a lot too. Im with Dist, Im waiting for holographic projection :o cant be long now :D
 
i still have my trusty 19" 1600 x 1200 Hyundai imagequest Q910 that i keep as a spare as i probably couldn't give it away nowadays.

still a great monitor but it's just not big enough when compared to my 1920 x 1200 24" lcd :(
 
Hades said:
I miss my FW900. It was fantastic.
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I still have mine - altho it's now looking washed out and the geometry has gone funny in one corner. It did sterling work for many years! I have no doubt that when it was at it's best, or if I could find someone competent enough to restore and calibrate it in this country, that it could still blow any current monitor regardless of budgets out of the water.
 
I remember posting a link to reconditioned 21" CRTS monitors in the 'bargain bin' section on a site similar to OCUK. Probably back in 2004 or something, I think they where £90 or something (a bargain at the time) the topic went nuts and they must have sold loads.
 
Damn would have loved to of seen that! I miss CRT for sure, I can feel the difference just moving the cursor around desktop. Counter Strike with a CRT is competitive gaming heaven.
 
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