What kind of a monitor do you use?

[ExigeEvan]

git.. you and your parents 'freebies', all my dad can get me is BB's, and my mum, well...hearing aids?
A nice 3yr old 17" CRT made by TINY (company)

 

[sUn]

Of course, if you really want to spend a large sum of money on a monitor, you can now buy a 30 inch Apple display.

$3,299.00 US. That's huge.

 

[rjensen11]

I have a 20" CRT hooked up right now on one computer, and a 17" LCD on another. I wouldn't mind having both hooked up to 1 computer, though....

 

[toyomatt84]

I use the standard 15" LCD in my laptop (alienware), and I have a 17" LCD Flatscreen made by Apple on my Desktop. (and no, I use a Belkin monitor converter, not a mac)

 

[Danoff]

At work I use a 20" LCD and am also getting a 20" LCD cinema along with a 12" LCD Laptop.

At home I have 2 17" CRTs, a 30" LCD and a 12" Laptop LCD to share between me and my wife.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

At home I use a Dell-badged Sony 21" CRT.

At work I use an HP-badged Mitsubishi 17" CRT.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I have a Viewsonic P75f+

17in. CRT

 

[2ez2KiLL]

I use some cheap CRT Proview 17" monitor. I believe that lcds don't really have the precision and brightness of a crt. Also, most lcd's it can only handle 1280x1024.

 

[Rue]

17" LCD with DV-I at 1280x1024 (Don't remember the name though, doh!)

 

[rjensen11]

I use some cheap CRT Proview 17" monitor. I believe that lcds don't really have the precision and brightness of a crt. Also, most lcd's it can only handle 1280x1024.

Visually, LCD's are only really better for when you have to be in front of a screen for a long time and when you're doing stuff like text documents, where it's not graphically intensive. Their pixles just don't have quick enough response times for fast-moving objects in games and movies, like gunfire, and the brightness range just isn't as broad. The blacks aren't dark enough, and the screen doesn't produce as many lumens. Of course, I still wouldn't mind getting Apple's 30" http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...VND2xpmDZa9/0.0.7.1.0.6.7.1.2.19.3.1.1.0?32,9

 

[Meatwad]

Those apple screens are a bit too rich for my blood.

 

[rjensen11]

I have never seen a monitor advertised or marked as a 21" LCD. LCD's are measured more accurately than CRT's. When an LCD monitor is marked as a 20", it's viewing area is 20" diagonally. When a CRT is marked 21", it's viewing area is 20" diagonally. So the poll is flawed.

 

[Burnout]

If you wanted to get technical, yes.

Having fun, as in what you're supposed to do on a forum, then technicality isn't required.

 

[rjensen11]

If you wanted to get technical, yes.

Having fun, as in what you're supposed to do on a forum, then technicality isn't required.

What if I have fun making fun of people who are wrong because they're not technical?

 

[Burnout]

Visually, LCD's are only really better for when you have to be in front of a screen for a long time and when you're doing stuff like text documents, where it's not graphically intensive. Their pixles just don't have quick enough response times for fast-moving objects in games and movies, like gunfire, and the brightness range just isn't as broad. The blacks aren't dark enough, and the screen doesn't produce as many lumens. Of course, I still wouldn't mind getting Apple's 30" http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...VND2xpmDZa9/0.0.7.1.0.6.7.1.2.19.3.1.1.0?32,9

You know, I don't think you guys are giving LCD technology enough recognition. They've come a very long way.

Granted, their color reproduction isn't quite as good as CRTs, and then the response time isn't as good either, or even stuff like the blacks being black. However, they aren't that bad either. Right now I'm using a 17" LCD, and the blacks are dang black, the response time is virtually instant, and it's refresh rate is 75 @ 1280x1024, which if more than enough for games, since you'll be lucky to even be getting that many FPS with the visual goodies cranked up on games. I play UT2k4, NFSU, and a few FPS games on here. I don't notice any bluring, except on very rare occasions when it goes from a bright object to black. However, I actually like this little bit of bluring, here's why. It almost acts as a type of anti aliasing. 👍

LCDs are too bad these days, and dang do I love their size.

 

[Burnout]

What if I have fun making fun of people who are wrong because they're not technical?

If that's your thing, go ahead.

Here's what we can do!

21" CRT is really the eqiuvalent of a 20" LCD, so on so fourth!.

 

[sUn]

You know, I don't think you guys are giving LCD technology enough recognition. They've come a very long way.

Granted, their color reproduction isn't quite as good as CRTs, and then the response time isn't as good either, or even stuff like the blacks being black. However, they aren't that bad either. Right now I'm using a 17" LCD, and the blacks are dang black, the response time is virtually instant, and it's refresh rate is 75 @ 1280x1024, which if more than enough for games, since you'll be lucky to even be getting that many FPS with the visual goodies cranked up on games. I play UT2k4, NFSU, and a few FPS games on here. I don't notice any bluring, except on very rare occasions when it goes from a bright object to black. However, I actually like this little bit of bluring, here's why. It almost acts as a type of anti aliasing. 👍

LCDs are too bad these days, and dang do I love their size.

They're dang expensive too. My 17" CRT came free with my PC, where a brand spankin new 17" LCD is around $600-700.

 

[rjensen11]

They're dang expensive too. My 17" CRT came free with my PC, where a brand spankin new 17" LCD is around $600-700.

You can get a very nice LCD (As long as it's non-apple, if it's Apple, it's around $700) for $400 US.

 

[xAkirax2004]

Hell, That's if you want a expensive, well known company monitor. On newegg.com you can get em as low as $350.00

 

[Burnout]

You can get a very nice LCD (As long as it's non-apple, if it's Apple, it's around $700) for $400 US.

👍

This one was $350, I believe. Of course, it was after rebates.

It's a pretty nice one.

 

[rjensen11]

My brother's is a Samsung, and I don't think the price has dropped in the year since he's gotten it. If it has, it hasn't dropped much($400.)

 

[OmicroN]

At the moment I mainly use a 19" LCD screen. But with my video card, I can run a digital and an analog through it, so I have dual monitors. The 2ndary is a 19" CRT, I run it at 800x600 @ 144hz. (just for gaming)

 

[sUn]

You can get a very nice LCD (As long as it's non-apple, if it's Apple, it's around $700) for $400 US.

Well here in Canada, the cheapest are $599.99 for a 17" LCD.

 

[rjensen11]

Well here in Canada, the cheapest are $599.99 for a 17" LCD.

Maybe I wasn't clear:

$400US, not $400CA. That's too bad though, $400US is $527.48CA as of closing time at 12 July 2004. That's without fees, though, but still, I don't think there would be fees that would add up to $70, unless you got ripped off. Can't you order from Newegg?