how many of you out there still use a CRT?

My 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro was a phenomenal monitor, in every way.!
However for the sake of my bowing desk - it really did bow in the middle, and taking up way too much room, compared to my Dell 24" TFT, I decided to get rid of it.
The CRT was getting a little tired and the colours were no longer as vivid as they used to be but I still have very fond memories of how good it was.
I do remember having a Sony CRT that had two "damping wires" running across it - it was said that many people did not notice them but, for me, my eyes were drawn to them like they are to a dead / stuck pixel on a TFT.
 
19" CRT here. Find me a a TFT screen that has as good a colour reproduction, doesn't cost the earth and has no colour tinting.

It seems even the Dell 2410 is still no match for a CRT.
 
mglover070588 said:
I would never use a CRT.

They make my room hot
They give me eye strain after long periods
If the image is under 60hz it appears to be 'flickery'
They are HUGE and a massive PITA to move around.

CRT is just old tech and outdated now.
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If you think 60Hz is in any way normal for a CRT, no wonder you're getting eyestrain. As for under 60Hz...when was the last time you saw a CRT? My CRT is very old now and wasn't high end when it was made, but even that does 1600x1200@75Hz (which I don't consider enough except when gaming - I use at least 85Hz normally).

If your room is bigger than a cupboard, it isn't a CRT making it hot. You put out far more heat than a CRT.

PITA to move around, I'll give you. How often do you move your monitor around?

CRT may be old, but it's not as though the technology never improved. It has innate advantages over LCD (response time, resolution scaling without interpolation, colour reproduction, no backlight bleeding, no chance of broken pixels, massive viewing angle).

It's nowhere near as clear-cut as you think. If LCDs were so completely superior to CRTs, I'd buy one and so would everyone else.
 
HangTime said:
I recently started playing Quakeworld with a CRT again, main monitor was 22" TFT with a 17" CRT (manufactured January 1998!) plugged in for QW.

Got the Viewsonic 120hz TFT a couple of days ago so am seeing how that goes. It's obviously not going to be as good as a CRT from a technology standpoint but it means less hassle pushing monitors around my desk and of course the extra size is nice.

At work I've got a Compaq P1210 (22" CRT), bit of a shame really as I'd love to have that at home for gaming. Not only can it do 160hz but it's also 4:3 rather than 8:5 aspect ratio.
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You used to kick my butt back in the day on UK FFA Quakeworld servers :rolleyes:

Bet I still have a screenshot or two of the privilege...

On topic, my old 19" Iiyama CRT is still use on the gf's PC :p
 
CRTs always used to hurt my eyes unless I sat like a meter away at which point it was too small to see anything on. Went back to one recently and had some serious eye aches after half an hour.
 
I still have an old Samsung Sync Master 19" kicking.

Still a great monitor, and it's still hooked up to my old Athlon 64 3200+ AGP gaming system :D

Even my amazing lcd monitor pales infront of it really. I just love 120Hz screens.
 
Up until about 4 years ago I used a 19" Dell CRT and had no plans to switch. It served me well for many years but it was huge and heavy. When I came to move house I knew I was going to have to move my PC around quite a bit while work was being done on the new place, and I really didn't fancy lugging the CRT about the place all the time. I tried to find a good home for it but nobody was interested and it ended up at the tip. I was really disappointed to have to dump something in perfect working order, but when I nearly did my back in trying to get it out of the car to dispose of it I knew I'd made the right decision.

After my initial foray into TFT land with some 19" Samsung screens, I now use a pair of Dell 2408WFPs and I definitely wouldn't swap back to CRT.
 
I've had this 2408WFP (first TFT) for a couple of months now, but still miss the instant response of the old Trinitron HP.

Was probably throwing myself in the deep end going IPS (monstrous input lag on this model/rev!) but TN's shifting colours with slight head movement was just going to irk me more.

Totally given up on v-sync and AA now, mouse lag is less noticeable once frame rate hits 70+.
 
i ditched mine over a year ago, no I will never go back although my TV is a box but its dying.
 
Echo said:
Was probably throwing myself in the deep end going IPS (monstrous input lag on this model/rev!) but TN's shifting colours with slight head movement was just going to irk me more.
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The 2408WFP has a VA panel, not an IPS one, but your points still stand. :)
 
I do miss my Iiyama CRT which could go up to 200Hz! But it did have 2 feint horizontal guide wires which showed up on bright scenes which annoyed the hell out of me! The picture and colours were really good though. But now I've seen what an LCD can do, I am happy to stick with it, it's virtually as good and no annoying lines.

xmrb2003x
 
xmrb2003x said:
I do miss my Iiyama CRT which could go up to 200Hz! But it did have 2 feint horizontal guide wires which showed up on bright scenes which annoyed the hell out of me! The picture and colours were really good though. But now I've seen what an LCD can do, I am happy to stick with it, it's virtually as good and no annoying lines.

xmrb2003x
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And the response time is 5ms which is all you need.
 
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