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Sony CRT 24" widescreen monitor?

You are asking about something which cost and arm/leg 10 years ago, and was discontinued since then. If you really, really, really want one and can't live without it, then you need to buy the next decent one you see at whatever price it goes for, because as time goes on you will see less and less.
 
Watch your area's Craiglist like a hawk. Old CRT monitors show up constantly. They may be expensive, may be cheap. If they are cheap, others like you will be after them as well. I still have my Sony 21" as a backup and a second system monitor. Eleven years old now, and still working well.
 
Blain said:
Why would you want a 24" CRT over a 24" LCD?
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Only reason that I could see is for pure black levels, and possibly higher resolution for finer pitch. But the latter is moot for any trinitron older than a few years due to degredation in sharpness over time.
 
ebay is probably your best source. I have a 21" crt that weighs about 75lbs but the color and quality of the output is unrivaled in LCD unless you spend over $1k.
 
Blain said:
Why would you want a 24" CRT over a 24" LCD?
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Better color range, better contrast, better response time, better viewing angle, more resolution options...😉



God I miss my 21" Trinitron. 🙁
TN LCDs just can't compare. Too bad thin-panel CRTs didn't catch on.

I just got a Viewsonic VX2739WM 27" LCD. It's certainly quite large, and reasonably nice. Except that there's backlight bleed around all edges, the viewing angle is about 10° before colors start getting weird, and text turns slightly blue when scrolling. But at least it doesn't have one of those mirror-finish ultra-enhanced-glare screens like the 23" LG LCD it was replacing. Any time that screen showed something slightly dark, I got a terrifically clear view of myself and the room behind me.
 
About 6 years ago, I bought a used F500-R FD Trinitron for $100. It was vastly superior to a new Dell 2001FP LCD that was selling for seven times as much.

Unfortunately, it only lasted four years before too many issues forced it into retirement. Still, it's better to have spent $100 for four years of superior PQ than $700 for six years of lesser PQ (assuming the monitor would have lasted six years). At that same time the F500 died, I was given a Viewsonic G220f, which sucks in comparison to the F500....but it was all I had for my primary (my secondary is a 400PS Trinitron).

Fortunately, two months ago someone on craig's was selling a 2060U Diamondtron NF...for just $15. I'm back to being happy again...ok, thrilled, actually...
 
I bought mine on ebay a long time ago. $300 shipped IIRC. It heats up my room real nice during the winter. D:
 
Jeff7 said:
Better color range, better contrast, better response time, better viewing angle, more resolution options...😉



God I miss my 21" Trinitron. 🙁
TN LCDs just can't compare. Too bad thin-panel CRTs didn't catch on.

I just got a Viewsonic VX2739WM 27" LCD. It's certainly quite large, and reasonably nice. Except that there's backlight bleed around all edges, the viewing angle is about 10° before colors start getting weird, and text turns slightly blue when scrolling. But at least it doesn't have one of those mirror-finish ultra-enhanced-glare screens like the 23" LG LCD it was replacing. Any time that screen showed something slightly dark, I got a terrifically clear view of myself and the room behind me.
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I don't think its fair to compare the Cadillac of CRTs to the Yugo of LCDs (TN). An IPS panel will compare favorably to the Trinitron.

Also, rose-tinted glasses.
 
mfenn said:
Dell U2410 $600.
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Hm, not bad.

Do places like Best Buy and such have IPS monitors on display, and available to tinker with?

I was looking for a 27" recently, and the higher end of the TN displays was $350-$400, but the IPS monitors were at least $1k. What worried me was the pixel response time - the TN monitor I got is rated 1ms response time, any IPS I looked at online was clocking in at 5-6ms or more.

Even at 1ms, I still see some odd color shifts when scrolling text, specifically that all text tends to turn blue while scrolling. I don't know if that's a function of the response time, or what that's from.
 
Jeff7 said:
Hm, not bad.

Do places like Best Buy and such have IPS monitors on display, and available to tinker with?

I was looking for a 27" recently, and the higher end of the TN displays was $350-$400, but the IPS monitors were at least $1k. What worried me was the pixel response time - the TN monitor I got is rated 1ms response time, any IPS I looked at online was clocking in at 5-6ms or more.

Even at 1ms, I still see some odd color shifts when scrolling text, specifically that all text tends to turn blue while scrolling. I don't know if that's a function of the response time, or what that's from.
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Some high-end places will have IPS panels on display, but not may.

Regarding the response times, you generally see a lot of spec. inflation in the TN space, but not so much in the IPS space. A "1ms" response time just means that transitioning from some state to another state takes 1ms. Manufacturers then use this to exploit the fact that some states are "farther apart" than others when it comes to actually twisting the LCD matrix. This isn't to say that IPS monitors don't have more input lag, because they generally do. It's just that they don't lie about it on their specs.
 
Oooh, I just fiddled with the menus on my monitor. Apparently there's a menu setting for the pixel response time. Weird.
There's Standard, Advanced, and UltraFast. No more blue text while scrolling. 🙂
Why would they even make something like pixel response time an option? "Yes, I'd like more ghosting please." Anyhow...

Most of the response times I saw quoted on Newegg were for gray-to-gray, but yeah, there's quite a bit of wiggle-room in the specs. (Kind of like with a fair amount of LED lighting, where a lumen isn't a lumen.)

The other thing I don't like about LCD: It rendered useless the bit of work I put into reinforcing my desk so it could handle a 70lb monitor. 😉
(This desk was made back when a 17" CRT was huge and expensive.)
 
Jeff7 said:
There's Standard, Advanced, and UltraFast. No more blue text while scrolling. 🙂
Why would they even make something like pixel response time an option? "Yes, I'd like more ghosting please." Anyhow...
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I'm sure you're making a tradeoff somewhere. If could be in color accuracy, contract, color depth, panel longevity, somewhere.
 
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