Posted by Igor on 11/03/07 15:12

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:54:41 -0700, John McWilliams
<jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:

>Igor wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:08:51 -0500, Ron Hunter <rphunter@charter.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> It won't be impossible, just more expensive. The market for low cost,
>>> good quality CRT monitors is just about dried up. I am sure that when
>>> this CRT dies, I will replace it with a good LCD monitor. Mainly
>>> because of space and cost as the CRT monitors available by then will be
>>> the 'studio quality' ones, the low cost market having been taken over by
>>> the LCD.
>>
>> Maybe I haven't been looking in the right places, but I haven't seen
>> even the high-end, "studio quality" ones for sale anywhere. The market
>> seems to be dried up all across the spectrum.
>>
>> From what I've seen, the only CRT monitors that can still reliably be
>> purchased new are a few middle-of-the-road models from NEC and
>> Viewsonic, and some cheaper, off-brand ones.
>>
>> Some online catalogs still have listings for CRTs by Philips and
>> Samsung, but I'd be surprised if those were actually still available
>> if you tried placing an order for them.
>
>The high end is very much alive. Check out LaCie and Eizo. LaCie also
>makes some excellent mid-line priced CRTs.

I was on LaCie's website yesterday. There's not a single CRT monitor
on their site.

http://www.lacie.com/

Here's LaCie's listing of their CRT monitors:

http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10041

As you can see, the section is blank. There are no monitors listed
there.

I haven't checked out Eizo's site, but the situation is likely the
same, since I haven't seen any Eizo CRT monitors for sale anywhere.

Check out the online catalog of Vistek, a mailorder photo/AV supply
place:

http://www.vistek.ca/

The only CRT monitors they have are a couple of LaCie and Apple ones
which they're selling on clearence. The LaCie ones are used demos.

It's the same with all the photo/AV supply catalogs I've looked at.

It seems to me that CRT is deader at the high end than it is at the
low.
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