oh crap

[tg]

monitor is quickly comming apart...

last few days the colors have been fading flickering on this old 15 inch monitor i've been using for many years now... the whole screen just switched to shades of fuschia... guess its time for me to start shopping around.... maybe woot! will have a monitor for sale tonight.

[Cota]

I can tell you this, Stay the hell away from Best Buy and Circuit City, their monitors are over priced.... And dont ever buy a brand "ESA", thats a store brand.....its crap....

[CyanBlue]

Congrats, tg... Time to get a new flat panel... and you've got yourself a good excuse for it... :D

[Cota]

Speaking of flat panels, get a Sony LCD with XBrite, the best picture you'll ever see...

[tg]

bestbuy is one of the 'big stores' i don't shop at... i pretty much dispise their policies (almost as much as stealthelephant dislikes microsoft).

i've got a local supplier i will try out. thanks for the tip on esa... i will keep that in mind.

besides sony, any of you have your favorites? i'll be doing some ready at toms hardware this week i guess.

[tg]

heh. i pretty much can't spell either.

[vilehelm]

Overstock.com, I'm the proud owner of one of their refurbished Sony Trinitron 21" beasts ... couple that with a Mitsubishi 21" I got from work for free and a couple of geoforce cards and wooot!!!

Seriously, Overstock or TigerDirect.

[tg]

thanks vile.... yeah. i'm thinking big-ass crt instead of a flat screen.

[vilehelm]

Definitely Warms the old office up in the winter having two giant CRTs running ...

However, that being said, the setup I have at work now is an Apple Studio Flat Panel and a Lacie 21" CRT side by side. The Lacie used to be awesome but when I put it side by side with the Apple it looks just terrible. The brightness and the color quality on the Apple monitors are really just spectacular. I usually use the Lacie to hold extra palletes when I use flash and PS. When I use video apps I use the lacie as a monitor for the video and use the 16:9 of the Apple for extra timeline space. Works well.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to afford one for home use but I'm completely spoiled by it. I may be ruined, damaged goods, alas.

[pinkaboo]

ruined, damaged goods, alas.

You're certainly that, but it's got nothing to do with your monitor set up!

@TG

My UK monitor had a recurring fuschia problem, but the issue wasn't so much the monitor as the cord. It took me several long frustrating days of squinting into the pink haze before I noticed that when I would walk across my bedroom floor the monitor would bloom violent shades in time with my strides. I figured out that the colour would go all crazy when the cord jiggled up and down. To fix this I ended up taping it to the wall (sorry wallpaper) and [attempting to] tiptoe gracefully around. *grins*

Oh, and Vile's description of our home setup now sounds great but when we redecorated the office the pooters got shipped out to the front room for a bit. I attribute the slight bloom in the corners of the monitors from them being too close to the TV (or maybe magnets in the TV speakers?). Doh.

Other than our stupidity, the OverStock monitor is fab. Vile did good. Much much better than his previous monitor acquisition which he picked up from the side of the street.

Oh another suggestion for you: bestowing doughnuts on Technical Support always seems to go a long way to finding perfectly good disused monitors gathering dust in cupboards!

[annexion]

You're certainly that, but it's got nothing to do with your monitor set up!
Definitely going to leave a mark:p

[BadBadNeil]

As a suggestion the Mitsubishi 2141SB and 2070U are great 22" high end design CRT monitors.

[tg]

To fix this I ended up taping it to the wall (sorry wallpaper) and [attempting to] tiptoe gracefully around. *grins*


soooo... that kept it a nice shade of pink permanently?
hehheh.

@badbadneil thanks for the suggestion. i'll look at those too.

[pinkaboo]

soooo... that kept it a nice shade of pink permanently?
hehheh.


Sooo pretty!

Had another thought, if you're feeling thrifty you might take a browse through...

http://portland.craigslist.org

(not that I'm a cheapskate or anything!)

K

[jubei]

I dumped a full pint of green cordial into the top of my old monitor when i was at uni. It didn't die for a few more years, which was weird.. and it was a Mitsubishi Diamond View, which i was told were pretty crappy - the other guys who had bought them at the same time i did said their's had died.

Looks like the cordial kept it going ;)

Now i've got an LG Flatron, after a period of borrowing crappy old spare monitors from friends. Ah, the joy of a large monitor with beautiful colours..

[Cota]

Why does everyone have a love for the CRT monitor....they take up too much space. I'm telling you, Sony Xbrite, the way to go....yes its expensive, but worth every penny.

[jubei]

Heh.. if i could afford an expensive monitor, i wouldn't still be working on a Pentium II 350 at home.

[tg]

thanks pink.

@cota its not that i love crt, its just i get a whole lot more screen space for my money with a crt.

[Cota]

Yes I have spent a lot of money on my LCD's, but well worth the investment. I tossed all my crt's for LCD's, now, as soon as I win lotto I can pay them all off...