What kind of monitor do you have?

[bigboxes]

19" Mitsubishi flat aperature grill Diamond Plus 91 NF. Running at 85mhz refresh rate. Love this CRT!

~box

 

[440sixpack]

19" Trinitron by whoever was making Gateway's monitors back in '99, and an EIZO FC-7 17" that I picked up real cheap at a local show.

 

[CurtCold]

I have a 17" Viewsonic .23DPI moniter. I love this thing, had it for a little over a year, and it suits my MOHAA, Q3 and Renegade needs just fine.

 

[majewski9]

NEC from 1998. Its okay for an old monitor.

 

[quadcells]

22"(20" view) Samsung 1200NF. It is a sweet monitor. It will be a very long time before I let go of this one.

 

[corkyg]

This should really be a poll.

1 - Home - Viewsonic VX900 - 19-in LCD - Excellent
2 - Home - Viewsonic VX900 - 19-in LCD - Excellent
3 - Home - 15.6-in LCD on laptop - great
4 - Home (Storage) - Hitachi CM771 - 19-in Flat CRT - good
5 - Home (Storage) - Iiyama 450 - 19-in CRT - Very Good

 

[Muse]

My first was a 14" EyeQ monochrome VGA that's only seen as "default monitor" and only displays at 640 x 480 in Windows 98SE. I still have it but I use it on my 2nd system. It's much sharper than most color monitors of that day and maybe most all of today's. It's simply a LOT easier to converge a monochrome image than color. Around 5 years ago I bought my current main monitor, a Nanao F2-17ex, and it cost me $1000 and that was a good deal then. I did a TON of research before I bought the Nanao, but couldn't find one on display and I bought it sight unseen. I'd looked at a lot of monitors and was generally unimpressed even with the top Sony Trinitrons. I was pretty confident from what I'd read that I would like the Nanao when I got it out of the box and that's the way it turned out. It looks as good (I think) as the day I got it although I think it may be a little dimmer. I just boost the contrast a little more and it looks the same. Geometry is almost perfect, and it's sharp EVERYWHERE. I figured out the best adjustments early on and don't mess with them anymore, as far as geometry is concerned. The only adjustment I make other than an occasional adjustment to brightness, is to contrast and I make that very frequently. It's so fast on this monitor, much faster than most any other monitor you will find because it's with the thumbwheel, totally analogue although the digital result is displayed on the screen. You punch a big button on the monitor just below the thumbwheel and the adjustment value on the screen disappears. I can't imagine a more convenient arrangement. Very hard to find anything as convenient in today's monitors and it may actually be impossible to find. Nanao (now Eizo) stopped producing monitors with these controls a few years ago, last time I checked. This is a very high quality display. The 17" is small by today's standards, though. However, where I have it, I couldn't fit a 19" unless it were LCD. I've been thinking of those, but I'm told that they aren't good for gaming. I'm not a gamer but I have a few games and a system that'll do them justice and want to get into them although I'm not going to be a big gamer as I have too much other stuff to do.

I run at 10/24 x 768 85 Hhz refresh, typically, but when the print is too small at websites I switch via Multires to lower resolutions. Wintidy automatically restores my desktop configuration when I switch back to 1024 x 768.