Originally posted by: QueBert
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: QueBert
I recently bought 3 21" CRT's for $20 bucks each, so hopefully I'll never have to touch another LCD again
HA! I love hearing about short sighted stupidity. Your CRTs have a
"quality" lifetime of 3-4 years depending on use. You may want to spend some time reading about the future of display technologies.
huh? my 15" CRT I had when I was a teen lasted me 6 years. I had a 17" that lasted close to 8. These 21"'s I bought were new in the box, so even if I only get 4 years out of them, that's 12 years. The future stuff sounds great, OLED comes to mind, but until I can get something that displays accurate colors (LCD's dont) has good blacks, and I can run in any resolution I please with no side effects. I see no reason to downgrade from CRT to LCD. The space saving thing means nothing to me
as for the energy you save, I figured since my LCD was close to $700 out the door and my CRT's were $20 each, I could never possibly save any money on energy.
I will upgrade when there's a new monitor technology out that bests CRT's in the fields I'm concerned with.