Are there any CRTs that are Digital and/or use DVI?

AthlonAlien

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Through all my experiences, I find that CRTs have better picture quality than LCDs. I am wondering if there are any digital CRTs, or any CRTs that use DVI... I have searched and found some mention of these things, but never ACTUALLY seen them?! Any help would be appreciated.

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CheesePoofs

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I don't believe there are any that use a DVI cable, but you could always use a DVI-VGA adapter and run a regular CRT off of a DVI port.
 
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I believe I saw one or two at AccurateIT.com (they mostly sell refurbed monitors).

Yep, found 4.

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You'll have to look through those to find them (bottom of page one and top of page 2).
 

EarthwormJim

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IBM had a few that I saw at various computer fairs. I doubt they're running off DVI-D, but instead DVI-A. What kind of CRTs are you looking at too, and what kind of LCDs? I find it pretty rare and hard to see a difference if any between high quality LCDs and high quality CRTs aside from resolution.
 

yhelothar

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Yes I've had the IBM P275 before, and it does indeed use DVI-A. DVI-A is analog, so it provides the same image quality as standard VGA.
CRTs use an analog signal, which would make it pointless to make it digital. LCDs use digital signals, thus DVI is better so it wouldn't have to convert the analog back to digital.