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Chadk
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Post subject: New Monitor  Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:30 pm |
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I'm looking for a good 19-20", at a max cost of something like 350$.
Anyone that knows a good monitor, that fits my needs?
All it needs to be good at, is showing text, lots of text.
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Sgt. Slaughter
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:47 pm |
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Syncmaster 913N ftw  _________________ 
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wAsh
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:56 pm |
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SyncMaster 957DF. Huge desktop footprint as it's CRT but blows people away when they set eyes on it. May have to chain it to the desk next time Magoo's visiting..
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Chadk
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:10 pm |
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wAsh wrote: SyncMaster 957DF. Huge desktop footprint as it's CRT but blows people away when they set eyes on it. May have to chain it to the desk next time Magoo's visiting..
NO WAY, im gonna buy a CRT again!
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wAsh
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:19 pm |
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Well, now we know that......
just trying to help.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:23 pm |
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wAsh wrote: May have to chain it to the desk next time Magoo's visiting..
Did he TK it?
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Myx
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:24 pm |
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Chadk=GCHQ= wrote: wAsh wrote: SyncMaster 957DF. Huge desktop footprint as it's CRT but blows people away when they set eyes on it. May have to chain it to the desk next time Magoo's visiting.. NO WAY, im gonna buy a CRT again! Why is that?
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:31 pm |
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this is my sexy beast, 6ms response 19" Samsung SyncMaster 970p  around £350
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wAsh
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:28 pm |
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Not sure why you are so averse to CRT, I'm sure you have perfectly valid reasons, however the drawback with TFT is that should you be unfortunate enough to suffer pixel failures, or a cluster of closely spaced pixels go bad, then I'd be very careful as to the manufacturer's policy on replacements. As you stated, your priority is text, and that's the main thing that is going to suffer if you get missing pixels, and the smaller the text the more the problem is exacerbated.
Imagine you get a pixel missing - between the dot of an i and the main stalk. An 'l' would then be almost indiscernible from an 'i' and the word 'milk' would look like 'miik'.
Once again just trying to heip
(dives behind sofa and puiis tin hat tight onto skuii)
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:50 am |
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wAsh wrote: Not sure why you are so averse to CRT, I'm sure you have perfectly valid reasons, however the drawback with TFT is that should you be unfortunate enough to suffer pixel failures, or a cluster of closely spaced pixels go bad, then I'd be very careful as to the manufacturer's policy on replacements. As you stated, your priority is text, and that's the main thing that is going to suffer if you get missing pixels, and the smaller the text the more the problem is exacerbated.
Imagine you get a pixel missing - between the dot of an i and the main stalk. An 'l' would then be almost indiscernible from an 'i' and the word 'milk' would look like 'miik'.
Once again just trying to heip
(dives behind sofa and puiis tin hat tight onto skuii)
Hehehehe 
Games; CRT > TFT
Movies; CRT > TFT
Photoshop/any image editing; CRT > TFT
I can't actually think of any situation where TFT is better than CRT, unless it comes down to desk space.
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:53 am |
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lol ash
yeah I prefer CRT too, of course my next monitor will be a TFT because I have no room for a huge CRT 
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:09 am |
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Myx =GCHQ= wrote: wAsh wrote: Not sure why you are so averse to CRT, I'm sure you have perfectly valid reasons, however the drawback with TFT is that should you be unfortunate enough to suffer pixel failures, or a cluster of closely spaced pixels go bad, then I'd be very careful as to the manufacturer's policy on replacements. As you stated, your priority is text, and that's the main thing that is going to suffer if you get missing pixels, and the smaller the text the more the problem is exacerbated.
Imagine you get a pixel missing - between the dot of an i and the main stalk. An 'l' would then be almost indiscernible from an 'i' and the word 'milk' would look like 'miik'.
Once again just trying to heip
(dives behind sofa and puiis tin hat tight onto skuii) Hehehehe Games; CRT > TFT Movies; CRT > TFT Photoshop/any image editing; CRT > TFT I can't actually think of any situation where TFT is better than CRT, unless it comes down to desk space. how many different tft's have you tryed myx, because my tft (which is samsung syncmaster 930bf, 4ms) blows any crt ive looked at out the water for gaming and movies
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:35 am |
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i have the 930bf and i have to agree with 3of5, it does the job very nicely. Looks awesome in games, movies, text and photoshop. and the viewing angle is enormous.
Then again i have a nasty cheap 15" tft that looks like hell, all grey and dull, too dark for movies, tiny viewing angle ect. So in the end its very much a case of...
Ya get what you pay for
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Chadk
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:04 am |
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Myself i have 2 17" SyncMaster 172x TFT's on my desk atm.
NO dead pixles, and the view is very sharp.
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:15 am |
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3of5 wrote: Myx =GCHQ= wrote: wAsh wrote: Not sure why you are so averse to CRT, I'm sure you have perfectly valid reasons, however the drawback with TFT is that should you be unfortunate enough to suffer pixel failures, or a cluster of closely spaced pixels go bad, then I'd be very careful as to the manufacturer's policy on replacements. As you stated, your priority is text, and that's the main thing that is going to suffer if you get missing pixels, and the smaller the text the more the problem is exacerbated.
Imagine you get a pixel missing - between the dot of an i and the main stalk. An 'l' would then be almost indiscernible from an 'i' and the word 'milk' would look like 'miik'.
Once again just trying to heip
(dives behind sofa and puiis tin hat tight onto skuii) Hehehehe Games; CRT > TFT Movies; CRT > TFT Photoshop/any image editing; CRT > TFT I can't actually think of any situation where TFT is better than CRT, unless it comes down to desk space. how many different tft's have you tryed myx, because my tft (which is samsung syncmaster 930bf, 4ms) blows any crt ive looked at out the water for gaming and movies Through working and using laptops etc, probably tried at least 10 different TFTs. I do agree that some are pushing towards being as good as CRT but mine is a 22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron and these are the best CRT ever made.
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