What a difference 2 inches makes...

[Doramius]

CRTs are still pretty cheap. The biggest downfall is that it's bulky. Then there's the magnetic working and the need to deguass at times............ blah blah blah.

Newer CRTs run great though. If & when the cost of plasma drops to within $10-$15 of an equivilent working CRT, I'll probably buy more. But until then, unly 1 screen in my house is plasma, and that's because my wife wanted it.

Yeah, I'm cheap. But while you have your fancy monitor, mine does the same thing AND I got a mini fridge together for the same price. :P

[SingSing]

CRT can't do Portrait too. The color get messed up if you put it sideway.

[Doramius]

I don't know too many people that run their monitor portrait. Most people I know are buying 2 monitors and setting them side by side.

[SingSing]

Office always hands me many large monitors, like two to four of these 32in CRT, 35in CRT, 20in LCD, and 24 in LCD. so I use portriat mode or stack them to save space.

[Doramius]

Can you sell any of them?

[SingSing]

These are office stuff. The LCDs are from Dell. Each CRT has multiple trinitron beams that need special display electronics. The big ones are 45in, that I think will irradiate us.

[Doramius]

So you're telling me the LCDs aren't for sale? :P

[whitejremiah]

right now, im running an LG flatron L1920P 17" LCD, bought it a year ago, but i went to best buy recently where i bought it originally, and man im kicking myself for not waiting a year or so...the prices have significantly dropped on my model......even so, it's better than any other CRT monitor i've dealt with....i was actually looking for a 21" one at that point, but they were sold out....either way, i will never personally own anything lower than a 17" again......

[valvehead]

I'm currently using two Samsung 913V 19" LCD monitors. I previously used a pair of late 90's Viewsonic G810 21" CRTs. Even though I lost a little color accuracy and contrast, I feel it was still an overall improvement. They are much easier on my eyes, they take up less space and they don't interefere with all the audio circuitry nearby. There's nothing like having a faint backround of buzzing and high pitched whines in all of your recordings. Ugh.

The G810's were nice but they couldn't touch my ten year old Sony 15" CRT. The colors were perfect on that monitor. Black was really black.

[impmon2]

I currently use a 17" LCD but I am in need of replacement. This monitor is a bit over 2 years old and I've already had to dismantle it to fix persistient loose connection issue. It seems KDS just glued on the cable connecting the main board to LCD module, no clip or anything and after a while the gflue failed. Right now the display also flickers a lot when it's first tuned on after it's colled down so I suspect the bulb's about to go out.

I do have a spare 17" CRT around if the LCD goes out before I scrape up the money for a new LCD display. I prefer to keep LCD because of the tiny footprint area plus it's easier to carry the LCD than the CRT due to weight and size difference. Plus I frequently have small fan nearby and it messes up the CRT a lot but not LCD.