Love corporate sell offs

[Dravic]

until somthing better comes along at least. I like LCD's but only where they shine 2d browsing. I use dual view, 1 crt and 1 LCD, crt for gaming, lcd for browsing.


Company was having a monitor and keyboard sale

$10 for 21-19" CRT's
and
$1 keyboards

was tempted to grab a couple of those 21" sun monitors for ebaying or somthing.

while people are running in and grabbing just about anything they can, they must have thought i was a bit wierd for taking so long.. But i found the gems in the crap heap, a couple of model numbers rang a bell in my head.


1 compaq p900
1 compaq p910
2 dell keyboards

total $22

fired both up an they look great.. thank you 3 yr corporate life cycle. These will probably become my primaries and the ones i'm using now( viewsonic g90fb, and a viewsonic craptacular A90f+) will go to backups. Although i'm very happy with the g90fb.

hoping this gives me 2-4 more years at least of decent CRT's, by then the latest LCD tech should be better, just need a technology that can do resolution scaling better.

 

[Hauk]

Agreed. Lots of Dell/Sony Trinitron monitors in the workplace. I picked up a couple just for the hell of it.

 

[josh6079]

Yeah there is a lot of Trinitron monitors where I work. However, more than 90% have servere burn-in due to the interface being constantly up on the screen.

I like the colors of my Trinitron, but even in gaming I don't get the sharpness and crisp that I get with my 20WMGX2. Probably because of the VGA cable, which sucks because it also has a DVI input but it doesn't work. I bought it as a "Grade A" refurb and the DVI input is broken. Oh well, from what I've heard these early DVI ports were just glorified VGA's.

 

[Craig234]

I'm a big fan of CRT's for gaming. When my $2200 NEC XP21 finally blew the other day when I turned the power off for the day on a whim after leaving it on for years, I looked at the new and best LCD's, and I thought they came up short.

I found a local place with used CRT's and got a 19" HP for $50, which is a fine, beautiful picture.

I've been looking at E-Bay for a 24" Sony FW900 which sounds like it'll have an amazing picture, they seem to sell for about $400-$500 shipped (problem, 150 pounds! $80 to $240 shipping costs.)

If I could get my NEC repaired affordably - just won't power on now - I'd do that, but the only local repair I have found is $200 labor plus parts.

 

[saymyname]

I got a 20" for free, and it burned out pretty quick. Red went out first and the thing emmited way too much heat.

If you could get a decent 24" CRT cheap that would be one thing, but I wouldn't want to wait a couple years to get in on the 24" game. That price on the Sony is way too high unless you value scaling that much.

Get a 24" monitor now if you can afford it. I'm so glad I didn't wait.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: josh6079
Yeah there is a lot of Trinitron monitors where I work. However, more than 90% have servere burn-in due to the interface being constantly up on the screen.

I like the colors of my Trinitron, but even in gaming I don't get the sharpness and crisp that I get with my 20WMGX2. Probably because of the VGA cable, which sucks because it also has a DVI input but it doesn't work. I bought it as a "Grade A" refurb and the DVI input is broken. Oh well, from what I've heard these early DVI ports were just glorified VGA's.

The DVI inputs on CRTs aren't actually digital at all. It just takes a DVI-A signal (like the one you get after you use the DVI-I->DVI-A/VGA adapter).

 

[postmortemIA]

Trinitrons have too pale image when brand new, and it just get worse with use. These 3+ years old monitors look too pale when compared to worst TN LCD panel.

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Craig234
I've been looking at E-Bay for a 24" Sony FW900 which sounds like it'll have an amazing picture, they seem to sell for about $400-$500 shipped (problem, 150 pounds! $80 to $240 shipping costs.)

Nah, they're only about 85 lbs.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Meh. Too bulky for my tastes . CRT can't die fast enough. JMO.

Remember those 21" CRT's used to cost $1000 new before LCD came out, and the 24" screens used to cost $2000+. LCD is able to be produced (and sold) much cheaper per inch of viewable screen space.

 

[brikis98]

since i can't afford a high quality enough LCD, CRT's are pretty sweet for me... right now on my desk i have a dual display setup with a Sony GDM-FW900 24" Widescreen CRT (primary) and Sony 21" Trinitron (secondary). I got the 21" Trinitron for free back when I was in college as they upgraded the labs to LCD's. I got the fw900 for $250 on ebay (local pickup) and the colors, contrast, dot pitch, text sharpness, resolution, wide screen, etc are just unbelievable. i thought my 21" Trinitron was a decent monitor, but side by side, it looks like crap compared to the fw900... as do just about all the LCD's i've tried that are anywhere near that price range. of course, i now have about 160lbs of monitors on my desk (90lbs for the fw900 and 70lbs for the 21") and burn up a fair amount of energy...

 

[Elvis2]

I've been looking at E-Bay for a 24" Sony FW900 which sounds like it'll have an amazing picture, they seem to sell for about $400-$500 shipped (problem, 150 pounds! $80 to $240 shipping costs.)

do it. i scored two a couple of months ago on ebay for $350.00 for both and drove the round trip of 400 miles to pick them up. i sold one for $350.00 so mine cost me the gas. nothing like gaming @ 1920 x 1440 at 100mhz

 

[nutxo]

I went from a 21" WS lcd back to a crt. I havent looked back.

Maybe next year Ill try lcd again.

 

[mikeford]

I live in SoCal and visit the places where 90% of these old CRT monitors must get dumped to keep the prices high on ebay. Bulk dealers only pay about $20 each, so when a big place gets rid of 150 or so monitors at a time, maybe a dozen get put on ebay and the rest are either shipped over seas or dumped at swapmeets. We have 2x 21" and one 22" paying between $35 and $65 each.

Yesterday I was at MicroCenter looking at LCDs, trying to talk my wife into letting me have a 20-22" widescreen to use on a HTPC when we don't want to turn on the big screen. She surprized me and said go ahead and buy three of them and get rid of those big old monitors. That is 100% the corporate attitude, but I am not ready for it. The only way another CRT is going to pass through our front door though is if an old one goes out at the same time.

I really dig through the old keyboard pile, NOTHING modern seems to remotely compare to the best of the older keyboards.

 

[Dravic]

I?m just not happy with the smoothness of any of the purely digital formats (lcd, plasma, dlp, ?. ). There is a natural amount of motion blur and interpretation that an analog display handles that is better perceived by the human eye and brain. Any movement across heavily detailed (tweed type anchor jacket, basketball parquet type floors, tracking a HR ball into a crowd, etc?) surfaces/backdrops shimmers or pixelates too much for my tastes.

As for keyboards, they have become such a mass produced commodity that the older stuff that was made by a few solid vendors lasted longer. Have you taken apart a modern el cheapo keyboard lately? It?s a marvel the thing works at all?