Advice Request Please - Regarding Monitors

[SPSUguy]

Hey,

I have an ADi 6P (19"). It is the best looking monitor I have ever seen and it has a USB hub in the back.

And I got it for like $370. :-)

Check pricewatch.com

Later

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[rob_at_intruos]

gentlemen (and ladies if you're out there),

in my humble opinion, i think that good ole' sony trinitrons are #1. i have two of them on my g400 max dual. one is the newest tube that sony just put out(fairly recently anyway)...a trinitron FD. the FD means the thing is FLAT. i'm not kidding either, you could roll biscuits on it. the 15" is only $170 US bucks. the 17" and 21" won't break the bank either, and it's got the trademark trinitron lines running through it. CTX(ctxintl.com) is the company that put the pretty packaging and bows on it.

i highly recommend them. check them out, i wouldn't kid you guys.

[Taz]

Personally I would go for something with a Trinitron tube, they are generally a lot clearer than standard CRT's.

If you are on a budget and are in the UK, (I guessed that from your use of £'s), try these people www.commonside.co.uk, i've bought quite a lot from them and have been very happy. They sell either new, end of line or second user at very good prices.

They currently have a 20" Eizo monitor with a Trinitron tube, max res. 1600x1200 for £ 250.00!

[glarec]

man.. you guys stop 'bragging' about your monitors already. the poor(no pun intened) guy just want a decent monitor at around 300 pounds (british money :P) and wants advice on getting one. as of today.. one british pound = $1.59 US dollars. which translates to 300 pounds = $477 dollars. which i have to say can buy a very decent monitor if you are in the US. but i don't know how much monitors cost at his country..

my advice is. get some good brand with a trinitron tube and highest refresh rate as possible. you might want to get a 19". big difference between that and a 17".

just my $0.02 (US dollar) cents *grin*



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[Jorden]

By the time he reads all this advice, he's looking at his dual 19 to 22" monitors with a big smile anyway.

Have any of you posting after Rob looked at the dates the original post and answers were posted?

I'm just glad we have a mini-Murcer reading old threads (And daring to bring them back on top!!)

Jorden.

[glarec]

jorden: all i can say is DUH!!!!!!

*whap self*

bad rob, bad bad rob!!! :P

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[SunDriedGrapes]

Regarding 75Hz - It gives me a headache! I use 85+, even if it means having to run in less-than-optimal 1024x768.

I realise some people may have more tolerance for lower refreshes, but it's something t bear in mind if one's buying a new monitor...

[IceStorm]

My twin 19" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u's are over here.

They work fine side-by-side.

However, I've heard really good things about the new 900NF from Samsung over here.

BMF used to swear by the Samsung 700 and 900IFT line. He's got both (he's bought many 900IFTs), they're both truly flat, and he likes both, it seems.

The FD tube from Sony is not perfectly flat. It's as close as they say is possible to get. The 15" one looks flat (got one for someone recently). The 19" and 21" have a very, very, very slight curve in the horizontal plane - I'm talking maybe a millimeter or less. However, it must be pointed out, as Sony swears that a perfectly flat CRT face is not possible (this is their statement when I asked them about it at PC Expo last June), and Mitsubishi turned around and did it with the Diamondtron NF tube. To my knowledge, the only non-apeture grill tube that is totally flat (and doesn't look distorted) is Samsung's IFT offerings.

Apeture grill tubes (cut from a large cylinder) traditionally have better color at the expense of slightly fuzzy text at high resolutions. They use a wire grill to separate out the beams and paint the phosphors. That grill is sensitive to excessive movement, and will loosen over time. It also uses one, two, or three guide wires running horizontally across the grill to keep the wires in place. This causes one to see a thin, grey line in the display, if one looks for it. Finally, they have to warm up for about 30 minutes before the image stabalizes - don't bother adjusting the image until the monitor's warmed up, as you'll just have to do it again. :-)

Flat-square tubes (cut from a large sphere) typically have sharper text, but suffer from grainy color and the "fishbowl" effect if the sphere they're cut from doesn't have a large enough radius. They use a plate with holes punched in it to break up the beam, and this is more durable than the wire grill, with no lines visable on the display.

For flat-squares, a Samsung or Hitachi-made tube would be best, from what I've seen. I think ViewSonic gets their flat-square tubes from Hitachi.

When it comes down to it, try to see the monitors up close. No two monitors are identical, but at least you can get a feel for the overal looks of a monitor on display.

If you're looking to mail-order, Onvia.com has reasonable shipping on their gear now (used to be free, now it's per-item). Think it's $15 or so to ship a monitor, as opposed to the $100 I paid Buy.com for my Mitsubishi's in January, 1999.

Just my $0.02

[Taz]

As you can tell I don't look at the dates of posts, I just assume peoples replies are recent and not from 5 months ago!!!!!

Maybe I should be more observant in future

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