Posted by Kinon O'Cann on 11/02/07 11:51

"Igor" <donotreply@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:30:10 -0500, Rita � Berkowitz <ritaberk2O04
> @aol.com> wrote:
>
>>Igor wrote:
>>
>>> I've been shopping for a CRT monitor and have been finding that they
>>> are thin on the ground. I suspect that within a year or two, it will
>>> be impossible to buy a brand-new CRT monitor.
>>
>>I haven't seen an LCD monitor under $3K that was any good. <snip>
>
> What are the LCD monitors that you consider to be good? I can't afford
> to spend $3K on a monitor, but it won't surprise me if today's $3000
> monitor becomes tommorow's $300 monitor, so I like to keep track of
> these things.

Rita is full of shit. The NEC 2490 is an excellent LCD more than suitable
for photo editing. Higher up are the Eizos, also very nice. There's no need
to stick with a CRT any more.

>
>> <snip> Stick with CRT while you can. I use a pair of
>>Sony flat screen CRT monitors. I have a spare pair new in the boxes in
>>the basement. You can pick 19" new in the box Sony Trinitron tube
>>monitors
>>on the surplus market for less than $25 each. 21-inchers is less than $40
>>new in the box.
>>
>
> Where do you shop for surplus monitors? The best prices I've seen so
> far are on refurbished stuff, but they're still nowhere near as low as
> the prices you mention.
> --
> "Those of us whose brains did not die in college are
> actually stunned by just how stupid academic ideas
> are." -- Robert W. Whitaker, http://readbob.com/

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