Your thoughts of THE best CRT available?

Just wanting to know your ultimate, in production, monitor, and why it is so good.

I have owned my Compaq P900 for six months now, and I have yet to find a flaw. It's a Sony tube inside (19", flat trinitron), but it is better than the Sony equivalent model because of changes Compaq have put into the packaging.

It has a fairly short neck, and that is helped by the two inputs being vertically mounted.

It copes with any resolution I want to do (I work in 1600x1200x85 and play in 1280x1024x100), is crisp, very bright and stable.

The menus are clear and easy to use, with every picture adjustment you could want. Even the price was great (360 UKP 6 months ago)!

I have a Viewsonic PF 790, purchased it for about 500 and the image quality is awesome plus games seem to have a real increase in color and lighting. I would reccomend it but it is on the pricey side of 19 inchers.

We have ViewSonic CRTs at work (models GS773 and E771), but they are so bad that almost the entire webteam is complaining about headaches. I now have the same monitor I use at home, which is an excellent 17" CRT: AcerView 79g. The 79g is part of Acer's Professional Series.

The 79g came out on top in this test:
http://www.maven.com/Maven/Monitors/RateList.htm

Flat Trinitron tube, high resolutions (1600*1200), great refresh rates (160Hz) and great sharpness.

-Apollo

I've got an NEC MultiSync FE 1250, 22" (20" viewable)
It's a Trinitron "Totally Flat Aperture Grille" tube
that's capable of 1920 x 1440 @ 73 Hz (32bit color) with
a .25 apeture grille. 'Nuff said.

$1300 bucks Canadian (seen it for $1200 right after I
bought it--Doh!)

ViewSonic is good but your paying for the name. NEC
monitors are about the best there is. Period.

Btw, if someone is selling you a "Trinitron" monitor
BEWARE! ALL, (and I really mean ALL!) Trinitron monitors
have two faint grey lines running across the screen which
are barely noticeable. They're called "aperture grille wires" and are SUPPOSED to be there. If they are not there
then it is NOT a real Trinitron monitor and the person pitching his product is totally full of it. Sorry to anyone
who just recently bought a "Trinitron" monitor and aren't noticing these line right now...

I believe Sony makes a 24" that's totally flat, downside is cost (>$2000) and depth. Phillips makes a great totaly flat 0.24 AG stripe pitch trinitron 21" model 2048 x 1536 Max res. 1600 x 1200 at 97Hz in enlightenment is truly a sight to behold. In addition to all the user settings, auto calibration, USB, blah, blah, the depth is only 18.3 inches! That's less than many 17" monitors! And guess what, U should be able to find one online for under $900!

More info is <A HREF="http://fwca4.pcstuff.philips.com/cgi-bin/bvempst/PCP/prod_detail.jsp?BV_SessionID=1764504049.974264114&BV_EngineID=galjgegflfdbemicngcgiecjh.0&oid=84392" target="_new">Here</A>

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I use a Philips Brilliance 201P at work and have to say it is the best I've uses so far. I use it with a Matrox g450 running at 2048x1536 @ 73Hz. This is at the monitors max 320MHz pixel clock. The display is very crisp and the controls for the monitor are easy to use. IBM is pushing 200 dpi on it's displays so I think standard CRT displays will go away soon. 16.3" @ 2560 x 2048 is what they are saying here .. http://www.research.ibm.com/roentgen/

Sony Trinitron monitors are very good. The CRTs that Apple sells are probably some of the best monitors for graphics, the 21" one is awesome, but alot of $$$.

Sony sells a 24" Trinitron Monitor. Can't quote the model, but I know it is a 24" CRT with aperture grille and an insanely low dot pitch.

Estimated Retail: $2499.00 US :0

Amish

Be careful among the English, you hear?

I bought a MAG 15 inch trinitron monitor, (1024 @ 100hz) and most of my friends couldn't tell the difference (size-wise) between it and many 17 inch monitors. MAG makes excellent Trinitron tubes, for fairly cheap: MAG's 810fd model is a 19inch, 19x14 @ 75 or 85hz (can't remember) and a Trinitron tube for only ~400$. And yes they are real trinitrons (I often wondered what the little grey lines were for). The only thing I don't understand is why no on ever publicizes MAG, which is a top-notch company, in my opinion.

KDS has really nice monitors, too, and a seemingly great warranty deal.

~Chris

While it's true that there are only a very few manufacturers of trinitron tubes, don't underestimate the importance of the so-called "packaging." The brand-name company (Compaq, NEC, etc.) provides all the electronics that drive the tube, and these componants are at least as important to picture quality as the tube itself.

About cheap monitors: The budget brands produce SOME really good monitors, but the quality tends to vary more than with the expensive brands. For some reason, monitors are famous for having variation. Two monitors of the exact same brand and model can have very different visual quality, and the the budget monitors seem to have lower standards on what makes it to market.

This leads to my main point... I would HIGHLY recomend that you view the exact monitor you are going to buy and insist that they sell you that very one, not just the same model--especially with budget brands. This of course means buying locally, but I've found that with the shipping charges on bigger monitors, the price difference between online and local retailer is little or nothing.

Just my 2 cents worth

I like the Compaq MV940 19". Very nice looking monitor with excelent picture quality and the depth of a 17" monitor. A bit pricey though.....

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I have a viewsonic PF790 and i'm pretty happy with mine hehe

the best manufacture, I'd have to say SONY. They're the absolute best in my opinion

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what about this? the resolution might be a bit poor, 800x600@100Hz, not at all bad for watching DVDs, 32 inch widescreen sony tv hooked just for watching DVDs, the only reason i ever use it, for everything else i just use my lacie electron 22 blue, the sweetest screen ive ever seen

Does your desktop stretch to fill the width of the wide screen television when you are not watching DVDs.

yes it does, unfortunately only at 800x600@100Hz, but still, it aint that bad is it?