Who here still uses CRT monitors?

[Hyperblaze]

I've been using the same 2 CRT monitors (19 inches) on my computer since 2005.

I'm waiting for one of them to die before I buy LCD screens...

Curious to know who else still uses CRTs?

 

[AlienCraft]

I'm still using the NEC Multi-Sync FE 950+ I bought new in 2002.

 

[QueBert]

I do, and until something better comes out I'll continue to use CRT's.

 

[BoomerD]

We get these threads a couple of times every year...and yes, I'm still using the Sony Trinitron Multiscan 420GS monitor that I bought in 1997 or 98. I still prefer it to any LCD screen I've seen.
(although they're definitely getting better)

 

[Krazy4Real]

I stopped using CRTs quite a while ago.

 

[theflyingpig]

It's foolish to use CRTs in this day and age. There are no advantages at all. None. LCDs are superior in every conceivable way. Everyone knows this.

 

[Crono]

Use a Dell P1130 (Trinitron), but I am looking to replace it now. It's been having trouble starting up as of late (screen burst flashes when starting up, kinda creepy), but it was an excellent monitor before that.

 

[BreastInspector]

I don't. I use the additional space on my desk for actual work stuff.

 

[nageov3t]

I switched to LCD's in 2003 after my second desk bowed in.

 

[Matthiasa]

I don't, my parents do, my university still has a handful around.
Pretty much all the professors(for the major I'm in) use tablets in the classroom now since writing on chalkboards or whiteboards is a pain and then they can upload everything online. Some also have all the lectures recorded and placed online.

 

[Pardus]

It's foolish to use CRTs in this day and age. There are no advantages at all. None. LCDs are superior in every conceivable way. Everyone knows this.

Couldn't have said it better. :biggrin:

 

[Mo0o]

I'm surprised you guys have been using CRTs for so long. The CRTs I've owned always got progressively darker until they were pretty much unusable for gaming.

 

[sandorski]

Retired my Mitsubishi Diamondtron just over a month ago.

 

[Zebo]

It's foolish to use CRTs in this day and age. There are no advantages at all. None. LCDs are superior in every conceivable way. Everyone knows this.

Not really. Motion blur unavoidable on LCD which really sucks if you can see. Everyone knows this but the blind.

 

[Zebo]

Couldn't have said it better. :biggrin:

Fail.
Take a window, drag it around desktop & BLURRRRRR I don't give a hoot if you got best LCD there is like I have. No so on CRT. Text remains crystal clear always, no matter how fast you drag, no matter what RTS or FPS you are in.

Input lag is another fail of LCD. Course most of you are mentally retarded and don't know 30ms delay.

 

[Murloc]

CRTs suck compared to LCD.
You have a huge box in your face, the image isn't completely still, it tires faster, the resolution is low etc.
I can see the motion blur on LCD, yes, but I'm used to it and I don't care about it.
It's been so long since I used a CRT that I don't remember if they had less. It didn't make a difference to me during the transition.

I don't care if I can't read a text when I'm moving a window around. I move (1 second), then read.
In gaming I don't notice this effect.

 

[novasatori]

Fail.
Take a window, drag it around desktop & BLURRRRRR I don't give a hoot if you got best LCD there is like I have. No so on CRT. Text remains crystal clear always, no matter how fast you drag, no matter what RTS or FPS you are in.

Input lag is another fail of LCD. Course most of you are mentally retarded and don't know 30ms delay.

I read your post while dragging my browser window around my screen on an LCD.

 

[novasatori]

LCD from 2003 at that.

 

[Zebo]

Most of you have cheap TN's and VA's anyway because well they're cheap and you are not discerning....they are accompanied with color shifting, screwed up viewing angles anyway.. When you have an S-IPS then I may listen to you.

Yes I prefer a $1000-$1500 NEC 90 "i" series to a high end trinitron for static images.

 

[Zebo]

I read your post while dragging my browser window around my screen on an LCD.

And? Did it start blurring when moving relative to static? Yes, of course it did. On a CRT it won't do that.

FYI I have retired my Trinitrons and diamondtrons since about 2005 but that does not mean they are inferior. LCDs are cheap those costed $900. And still have some advantages. However people like thin and light and cheap is why we have LCDs not absolute IQ.

 

[JimmiG]

I still have a 19" Eizo CRT at my parents place that I use with my laptop sometimes when I visit them. At home, I've been using LCD's since 2003, first a 19" Samsung, then a 22" BenQ.

With the first LCD, blur was a problem. The newer 22" display still has it, but it's not really an issue. You get used to it, just as you got used to the constant flickering of CRTs when used below 120Hz. Other annoyances were the blurry text and the two visible damping wires appearing as horizontal lines across the display.

I mean, some games even add motion blur as a post-processing effect, but you already get it for free with your LCD It might help hide low framerates and aliasing.

 

[Zebo]

CRTs suck compared to LCD.
You have a huge box in your face, the image isn't completely still, it tires faster, the resolution is low etc.
I can see the motion blur on LCD, yes, but I'm used to it and I don't care about it.
It's been so long since I used a CRT that I don't remember if they had less. It didn't make a difference to me during the transition.

I don't care if I can't read a text when I'm moving a window around. I move (1 second), then read.
In gaming I don't notice this effect.

Most people don't. This is why transition was smooth. Plus LCDs were commoditized for $100-$150 now, very cheap. And crappy CRTs were shit which most were low end. However in print shops and tournament gaming you'll still find people who won't use anything else but Trons. I still notice blur in RTS/FPS. Bugs me but static image quality is so superior on LCD I acquiesced.

 

[Zebo]

CRT + no blur - 90us GTG, adjustable resolution w/o algorithm, almost 0 input lag, superior viewing angles (IPS same tho)

LCD + Superior text/static images, low mass, low power consumption, color if you have an IPS or looking at VA straight on, no refresh rate in standard sense, sexy.

 

[BUTCH1]

It's foolish to use CRTs in this day and age. There are no advantages at all. None. LCDs are superior in every conceivable way. Everyone knows this.

It might be foolish to waste $150 to replace my "19 Samsung CRT which still works perfectly, I love my "47 LCD Phillips TV but the monitor I use has relatively low hours and no tube degradation at all so why throw it away?.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

When ViewSonic gave up on their Professional Series CRT I was truly disappointed. The black level wasunmatached to any other CRT product by them. I even broke down on my last CRT purchase and bought a Graphics Series online (22") and its black level was way above that of the recently departed Professional Series.

And no LCD has come anywhere close to the level of black reproduction. But then again, what would one expect from a technology that is based on a backlight that is always on and the technology attempts to block it? And I think it will be another 10 years or more before we see OLED able to enter the >20" computer market and be affordable.