Monitors - when did you convert to TFT?

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When did you get your first TFT at home?
When did you get your first TFT at work?

For home, I first considered a TFT in 2001, but they were £300 for a 15" and £500 for 17" back then. Finally got myself a 19" Viewsonic VP191S off OcUK for £480, so not cheap, but the thing was a beaut. No turning back, especially with the CRTs being so goddamn heavy! Coming from a tech support background, I also liked the fact that TFT monitors have a much lower failure rate than CRTs did.

At work, we were still lugging CRTs around. 2009 was when we finally left the dark side :rolleyes: Years behind the general population. You would have expected this if it was the NHS, but this was private sector!

Dell Ultrasharp U2412M user now :-)
 
TFT at work in 2005. At home I didn't get one until 2008 as I rocked a 17inch laptop from 2002 to 2008. Got a 22inch Samsung syncmaster when I built my PC.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
I think me and my dad got a Phillips and Dell TFT back when I first joined this forum (2004). I certainly can't remember browsing on a CRT.
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The only 2 things I can remember from my CRT days are Quake 3: Arena and Napster. 20 min download for 1 song. Those were the days.
 
First TFT was a some 15" Samsung thing I bought from John Lewis on whim back in summer of 2003. Colours where never right on it so upgraded to a 17" Dell late 2004.

Still had the 15" Samsung as back up/spare until a year or so ago when I had a clear out.
 
Started with an expensive 17" Apple in 2002 perhaps, and upgraded to a 23" Apple stonkers in 2003. These were the days, the WORKSPACE at 1920x1200!
Also costed around £1500, but I still feel it was worth it. In all the years I've been working, I never skimp on Screen, Chair, Keyboard. the rest is irrelevant.
 
I work on ship's built circa 1999-2003 that have CRT monitors built into their control consoles. I love preseing the degaus, especially when the "yute" who grew up with TFT's have absolutely no ******* idea what just happened. :D
 
In 2007 or 2008. I only got it because we we're auctioning liquidated stock and the boss let us buy whatever we liked. Got a 21" HP f2105 for £100 and still using it to this day. It has 3-4 stuck pixels but they've never bothered me in all the time I've had it.
 
I worked all summer when I was 16 painting the outside of my parents house (woodwork and masonry) and it took ages. Once I finished my dad tried to back down from the price we agreed but I held him to his word.

With the money I splashed out on a Hercules Prophetview 920. It was the most expensive thing I'd ever bought at that point and it came with dead pixels (before a dead pixel replacement policy).

It was a great monitor for the time even if viewing angles meant that colours shifted every time you moved your head.
 
I think mine was around 2007 when I bought a 19" Belinea 10 19 20. It was a difficult choice as I had a 21" Sony Trinitron CRT which was a excellent monitor but it took up so much desk space.
 
Never used a CRT monitor, i built my first system in 2005 and opted for a TFT straight away. Viewsonic vx2025, was still in use on my second system until a few months ago, now being used as a secondary screen by my sisters kids.
 
Woden said:
Dat degause
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Ping! (Screen wobbles)

I had a 4:3 17" LG for quite some time but I'm damned if I can remember when I bought it. Must've been a good ten years ago as I've had two more TFTs since then. I think I paid £220 for it and chose it specifically as it had the low refresh rate of 16ms.
 
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