G-squared wrote:
> On Mar 16, 1:14 am, "Flea" <gt65ttg4ho9,9...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > "G-squared" <stratu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >
> > news:e878aa78-353d-4673-
> a021-9cba91ff2d10@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Mar 15, 1:29 pm, md <mardahl2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > You're signing to the choir.... They also last 20 years. But,
> > damn,
> > > they are heavy arn't they. :-)
> >
> > Signing to the choir? Like they can't hear? Must make a neat sound.
> >
> > Before you guys get all misty-eyed on CRTs, they really _do_ suck
> on
> > so many levels. Geometry is mediocre along with convergence, they
> > react to magnetic fields - and rearly in a good way. They drift
> like a
> > balloon in the wind. They have those wonderful high voltages inside
> to
> > attract dust. And heavy and bulky and --- good riddance.
> >
> > GG
> >
> > And CRT's still have the best image quality around. I have a
> widescreen flat
> > 32" Phillips HDTV and the geometry and convergence are perfect.
> When my
> > videophile friends want to see what reference HD and DVD should
> look like
> > they come to my place. Paid $1800 for it at the time and made damn
> sure was
> > worth it. Heavy as hell and small picture but it's good enough.
> > collect dust? Thay last for 20-30 years..all electronics collect
> dust there
> > is nothing you can do about it. Take the lid off every few years
> and blow it
> > out if your so worried about it.
>
> Good luck with that. At work I can't get replacement CRTs for the Sony
> monitors. Not made any more. For the little general puprose PVM-1354 I
> bought 6 P22 phosphor (consumer) which was half the stock in Kansas
> City. It makes the monitors into 1352 and they then look crappy like a
> consumer set. For the broadcast monitors, there is no option at all.
> Chuck it out - and those were $7000 when new
>
> I maintain that folks grew up with CRTs and all their myriad
> shortcomings and are so used to them the defects are considered
> 'correct'. Perfect geometry on a CRT? When they run a text crawl at
> the bottom of the screen there is no stretch/squeeze anywhere? When
> the credits roll there is no stretch/squeeze anywhere? The sidelines
> of the football field are dead straight regardless of the camera
> angle? Convergence is 'perfect'? I'm using a 17" CRT on this computer
> and the convergence is as good as any CRT I've worked on including
> those big bucks broadcast units but it's not perfect. Zoom in for
> aspect changes and there is light level change - brighter when
> smaller. The picture size changes with light level - gets a little
> bigger as it fades up from black. And they they get dimmer with age -
> so slowly you can deny it's happening - until you replace it. And the
> color balance varies across the face of the screen and there is
> nothing you can do about it. None of those things are part of the
> signal.
>
> If CRTs are so great, why aren't they being built? Some of you clearly
> prefer them and would buy them.
>
> GG
"From my cold dead hands...."
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