Are CRT monitors 100% dead ?

I have a 22" CRT. I do some graphic work as part of my job and LCD's viewing angle issues, makes working with graphics a real problem as color changes if you change your viewing angles.

I'm still hoping some better technology comes along, maybe SED or OLED as they don't suffer from the viewing angle/ghosting/dithering issues you see with some LCD technology.
 
wahrheit said:
You can do that with a mouse click on a Mac. Additionally, there's a contrast slider and a button to reverse to white font on black background. And a neat zoom feature. Since this is in the operation system, it works with everything, not just web pages.
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But that button made the OS go a funny foreign language too! Turn it back quick!
 
wahrheit said:
You can do that with a mouse click on a Mac. Additionally, there's a contrast slider and a button to reverse to white font on black background. And a neat zoom feature. Since this is in the operation system, it works with everything, not just web pages.
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I can't believe people promote Macs as easy to use, when this picture shows that the controls are pure jibberish.
 
roger said:
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I can't believe people promote Macs as easy to use, when this picture shows that the controls are pure jibberish.
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That's the only control screen which looks so crowded, because they use large fonts for visually impaired people, write the keyboard shortcuts right next to each word et cetera.

A normal control on the same machine looks like this:

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wahrheit said:
That's the only control screen which looks so crowded, because they use large fonts for visually impaired people, write the keyboard shortcuts right next to each word et cetera.

A normal control on the same machine looks like this:
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well, this just goes to prove Roger's point! How are we supposed to know whether we want to bildschirmschoner zufallig auswahlen?


We're just teasing! At least, I was...;)


Still, that's very handy, I never knew I could do that. It might be handy for viewing woo websites with horrible colour schemes.
 
Shame, I'm such a humor impaired idiot. :redface1

Okay, now I got it. Next time I'll try to find a screenshot in Cyrillic. :mgbanghead
 
MRC_Hans said:
No, they just smell that way ;).

OK, seriously: Apart from some marginal advantages in certain graphic appliations, the only advantage that CRT monitors still hold (but are rapidly loosing) is that of price. Oh, and viewing angle.
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You haven't played Quake 3 at 125 frames per second on an LCD screen then. Pixel change speed is a huge factor. It's harder to aim on LCDs since the picture doesn't update fast enough.
 
As a former employee of a TV manufacturer i can let you in on a secret. The problem is going to solve itself in a couple of years. There are really not that many manufacturers of picture tubes and they are stopping. We had to cancel several products way before the estimated time simply because we coudn't get tubes for them and the message was the same. 2-3 years and that's that. Perhaps as someone suggested one or two manufacturers will continue making some for enthusiasts/nerds - ;) but the big factories are shutting down and producing LCD and Plasma instead. I saw a prospect from Samsung. They are building a factory, the size of a town with 50000 citizens only to make LCD and Plasma Screens. Thoose guys mean business folks...
 
It's interesting.. I wonder what the common term will be 10 or even 20 years from now, when 'Television' and 'Monitor' are the same thing.

I already use a projector which runs in 1024x768, and displays my home theatre PC. I use this to watch TV, movies, view digital pictures, etc.. I control everything by remote, and have a wireless keyboard and gyroscope mouse while surfing the net, etc.

Right now, when referring to it, I just call it 'the projector', because more than just a TV, but I don't really think of it as a monitor.

Maybe the more generic term 'display' will be the most widely accepted term?
 
Ripley Twenty-Nine said:
It's interesting.. I wonder what the common term will be 10 or even 20 years from now, when 'Television' and 'Monitor' are the same thing.

I already use a projector which runs in 1024x768, and displays my home theatre PC. I use this to watch TV, movies, view digital pictures, etc.. I control everything by remote, and have a wireless keyboard and gyroscope mouse while surfing the net, etc.

Right now, when referring to it, I just call it 'the projector', because more than just a TV, but I don't really think of it as a monitor.

Maybe the more generic term 'display' will be the most widely accepted term?
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I guess that's why youTube was quickly sold to Google recently, before the brand name becomes unrecognisable (and thus worthless) for the younger kids. ;)
 
For my own part, I'll hang on to at least one CRT - my 3d goggles only work with CRT monitors... at least, so far.
 
El Greco #1

I have just noticed this subject and have read your first post.
For not-totally-blind people a CRT screen is, I was told, much better than a flat screen because it enables the user to have better access to what's on the screen; so I hope that, for the sake of blind users, the CRT screens will not be phased out completely. For myself, now that I have been using a computer for about six years, I would be quite comfortable with a flat screen, but it must be at eye level. (This one sits on top of an old desk top case!) It seems to be impossible to buy a flat screen as a private customer which has an extending stand to raise it to eye level, although I believe they are available to commercial customers because, sensibly, of health and safety rules.
My new CCTV (Optelec ClearView+) is now made with a flat screen, but after trying this out, I bought the new CRT version because it does not blur the print so much when moving the words quickly across.
For totally blind people of course a screen is not necessary!
 
I've read the whole thread now - all very interesting. I see that impaired vision has been mentioned a few times and about the Bezel on the screen.

Having bought a nice new computer table (with pull-out shelf for the keyboard), I thought a flat screen would look tidier, but that aim would be defeated by having to put a flat screen on another block of something! However, I think I'll forget the whole idea for a while.
 
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