Regrets....

[Rezet]

Originally posted by manitoubalck
Then your a fool, CRT's are better than LCD's for almost everything except saving a small amout of power and space.

You should probably stop smoking that stuff dude.
Take a regular CRT and Dell Ultra Sharp and see the difference.

 

[lbodnar]

TFT screens have colour/saturation shifts if you are not looking at them straight at 90 degrees. By the way the early flat panel iMac is the worst I have seen. Add to that that it is SO easy to adjust...

I found that when doing critical colour work I tend to unconciuosly adjust my viewing position to compensate for subtle image quality problems. This is quite frustrating because nobody sits in front of the monitor as a statue. This negates the whole system calibration troubles. CRTs do not have this problem at all.

We have 20" Apples, 21" Viewsonics and Philips' CRTs. I use Mitsubishi 22" CRT for general programming work but have 19" Samsung 191T at home. That was the best 19" TFT I could find. It is actually quite easy - in any local shop where they have dosens of them turned on sitting next to each other on one shelf just stand back, watch carefully and duck - you will notice the change in image quality. At the time this Samsung was the best in that respect.

I have to admit though that TFT is probably the best overall choice for typical user but the margin is not big at all especially if you compare within the same price range.

 

[edesignuk]

I regret the 2 Epson printers I have owned, Stylus colour 540, & 740, complete p.o.s! My HP 970Cxi has been a million time better.

 

[Squire]

Originally posted by Rezet
You should probably stop smoking that stuff dude.
Take a regular CRT and Dell Ultra Sharp and see the difference.

Most experts disagree. Check out this article:

http://forbes.com/newswire/2003/11/18/rtr1152084.html

Here's the intro.

Squire

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By Lucas van Grinsven

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - They are flat, thin, light and the envy of the neighbors. Why then do TV buffs still prefer bulky tube televisions over those fancy flat models?

The main reason is that the picture quality of an old-fashioned cathode ray tube (CRT) television is still unbeatable...

 

[AppleMatt]

Originally posted by the future
Hello?? Of course LCDs show a *much* sharper image (well, quality LCDs do) than CRTs!

No....
Imagine investing the money spend on that "quality" LCD on a quality CRT.

Also, for gaming, they're rubbish, even the good ones. Smmmmmmmear anyone?

AppleMatt

 

[evil]

yeah. i have to say one of the main reasons i bought an emac over the imac is that i wanted a crt rather than an lcd.

 

[fartheststar]

I bought a great Diamondtron 930SB for $430 CDN 19". It's not a shadowmask (the cheaper CRT's are), built with the diamondtron (trinitron equivalent) technology.

If I were to get a good LCD at the same size, I'd be in the $1500 - 2000 range.

I've got the extra foot of space to save myself over $1000. This monitor rocks.

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

Emac is such a better machine then imac in so many ways, its even made in America still. Ibodnars mod really shows how apple has dumb down the emac> its pretty sad when you have to take things into your own hands because Apple is so stingy on giving us good hardware( cpu's ) i did the same thing to my quicksilver though my bumping it up wasnt as drastic as what ibodnar did to his Emac. Just goes to show how Apple really does cripple lines and holds things back rather then giving the consumer the best machine they could. They just keep scratching their heads wondering why they dont sell more computers. Emac is a good machine and Crt's are still better then Lcds and you dont have to bother with that dead pixel crap.