I'm still using a big black box of a crt, a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB to be exact. It's a hell of a monitor; crisp image, excellent color range, instant refresh rate... Still don't see the point of buying an LCD.
I'm still using a big black box of a crt, a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB to be exact. It's a hell of a monitor; crisp image, excellent color range, instant refresh rate... Still don't see the point of buying an LCD.
There's not much point until you either have to move the CRT or it develops problems. I used a massive 21" CRT until mid-2009 or so. Only when its problems got bad enough did I replace it, and with an LCD. By that time, most of the drawbacks of LCDs (ex. ghosting and poor viewing angle) had been eliminated. You'll no doubt replace yours with an LCD eventually, too, but as long as it works for you now and moving it isn't an issue, all power to you for getting as much out of it as possible.
I used to have a setup like that, circa 2006. It was pretty sweet at the time.
However, I current have a 23" Asus and 20" Acer. They're brighter, consume less power, and have a smaller footprint than any CRT I had. I don't miss CRT's one bit.
I used to until about 2.5 years ago. My brother still does but he doesn't game nearly as much as he used to.
The reason I prefer LCD now is the smaller size. Do they even make widescreen CRT monitors? That's a huge reason for me to go with LCD too.
Another reason is I cheap out on furniture. My old desk actually collapsed from the weight of my huge CRT monitor. Fortunately I was sitting there so nothing broke after it landed on my lap. But after that desk broke, I bought another cheap desk that cost me ~$80. The less weight on it the better.
Heck no. I used to have dual CRTs back in like 2001, but since then it's been LCDs because of ease of moving/size. And not to mention widescreen aspect ratio.
I'm still using a big black box of a crt, a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB to be exact. It's a hell of a monitor; crisp image, excellent color range, instant refresh rate... Still don't see the point of buying an LCD.
I used to have that exact one, I think. Used it with my old PowerMac G5 tower.
Unless you're building an arcade cabinet there's no earthly reason to be using a CRT.
Amen, Sandwich.
Thinking of finding an old nice 27" CRT television for the classic consoles. Need it for the light gun games. No retro gaming room is complete without an arcade unit and a CRT TV.
