Posted by Igor on 11/04/07 05:06

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:45:06 -0500, Rita Ä Berkowitz <ritaberk2O04
@aol.com> wrote:

>Richard Crowley wrote:
>
>>> Not true. As I said earlier, look for surplus monitors that use the
>>> Sony Trinitron flat CRT. The LCD vs CRT argument is akin to VHS vs
>>> Batamax. Betamax was always the best format, but VHS won out do to a
>>> stiff marketing campaign and propaganda.
>>
>> Sony (Betamax) practically guaranteed failure by
>> refusing to licence the format to other manufacturers,
>> and by waiting way too long before admiting that a
>> 60-minute running time probably wasn't enough. By
>> then there were thousands of Hollywood movie titles
>> availble on VHS because they wouldn't fit on Betamax.
>
>It's kinda like how LCD is being forced on the masses.

I don't think LCDs are being forced on the masses. I think they became
more popular than CRTs largely for reasons of convenience and
ergonomics.

>Ah, what the hell, once all the CRTs are gone nobody will
>remember what a good monitor looks like.

That's true, unfortunately. I need a new monitor, and when I started
shopping for one, I had taken it for granted that I would be getting
another LCD. When I was looking at monitors in a big box store, I
noticed a lone CRT sitting in a corner and went up to examine it. I
was blown away by the image quality, compared to all the latest and
greatest LCD monitors I had been looking at (and this was a cheap,
off-brand CRT). I had gotten accustomed to the "grainy" appearence of
LCD monitors and had completely forgotten how good photos look on a
CRT.

So now I'm determined to get a CRT monitor, no matter how far out of
my way I have to go to get one, but I don't think most people care
enough about image quality that they would do the same. Within a few
years, CRTs will be a technological artifact and everyone will have
come to accept the "look" of CRTs as normal.
--
"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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