17" v. 19" monitors
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- muidlatif0
19" should be it... after all, I would not mind calling up my friends to watch a movie if my tv ever goes down. I mean you get a bigger visual experience. But not too big, it reminds me of 'The Ring' though..
juskidn'.
merry christmas..
- tralphaz0
thanks to all you who responded. looks like i'll be shopping for a 19 incher. perhaps the NEC FE990 19" CRT. does anybody have this?
- murmer0
YEs i have that exact monitor. I bought it 1 month ago.
Here is what i noticed.
Apature Grille - 2 thin wires go horozontialy across your screen, sorta dividing it into 3. Very minimal and infact you get used to it, but at first i almost returned it because i thought it was a manufacturing defect.The FE990 has Brightnes settings 3 to be exact. Now thats a cool idea but i noticed that if i push the "Super Bright" button for maximum brightness i get blurry text on the corners of my monitor. Blurry as in the title text of windows become blurry.
It has a very high resolution and sync rate but it rely tops out for me at 1280 x 1024, @85 Hz. anything over that an i notce distracting flicker.
All that aside, i definaly think it was worth the money, every monitor is different even the exact same make model and year.
- tralphaz0
murmur,
thanks for the detailed review. from reading these posts on what others have said about Sony monitors do you think all monitors have to deal with these aperature grill lines in one way or another?
- jevad0
iiyama - best monitors on teh market right now.
- murmer0
No, not all monitors do, only monitors that use certan tubes.
Of course most companies hide information like that in there detailed specs somwhere.
Monitor companies do not nessicarily prouce there own tubes. The tube used in my monitor is popular for midrange Flat CRTs and i would imagine is going to show up in quite a few popular brands in that price range. On the other hand i have been usin that monitor for a month now and have compley forgotten they even exist. You just dont notice them unless your looking at them insted of whats being deisplayed.
- jevad0
You really don't notice them after a week or so....
- Carty0
i got a sony trinitron 17" flatscreen... with letterbox lines...
one day a 19" lcd
- tralphaz0
Carty,
nice site. one of the best photo portfolios i've seen. you probably hate getting asked this but what is you favorite camera to use? do you do digital or do you mainly still w/ old skool film processes?
seeing your work really made me realize how arbituary something like the size of your monitor is when measured against pure creative talent & skill...
- fate0
ViewSonic 19" UltraBrite CRT Monitor with PerfectFlat Screen
Displays a maximum resolution of 1792 x 1344 --- 1280 x 1024 optimal resolution at 80Hz flicker-free refresh rate for easy-on-the-eyes viewing
PC and Mac compatible
- vwsung18t0
i got a lacie 19" electron blue for $100 at a computer show. It came with a three year warranty and everything. I'm gonna get another one because my other monitor is a 17" and they don't work right together. But defintely look around your local computer show, 19's are not expensive.
- prince0
now i use 14". i want to 19". ;)
- Jnr_Madison0
19" of course.