Motoko. Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I mainly miss CRTs for the accuracy of colors they projected, oh how I miss my Sony FD Trinitron monitor. Tha Bloo Monkee 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 No, no, no, no, oh hell no. dead.cell and +M2Ys4U 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterC Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 No, no, no, no, oh hell no. QFT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceminess Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 In a word. Hell-NO!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motoko. Posted April 24, 2010 Author Share Posted April 24, 2010 Why is everyone yelling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Why is everyone yelling? thats just what CRT's make people do :p no just emphasising the point I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motoko. Posted April 24, 2010 Author Share Posted April 24, 2010 thats just what CRT's make people do :p no just emphasising the point I guess lol we've been on CRTs for over 30 years I don't remember anyone complaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeboyrocketshoulders Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I miss the accuracy in colors, the contrast, the viewing angles, and I miss them because you couldnt really hurt the screen. Some ******* put gum on my screen once, so I just took a wire brush and ground it off. Cant exactly do that with most lcds nowadays. But the tradeoff for a huge reduction in weight, less power consumption, no noise, and more desk space makes up for it. While I may miss parts of them, I wouldnt trade my lcd for a crt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Star Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 No. [/thread] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.M.K Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Um, no. I love my Dell 24" LCD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redvamp128 Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I still use them at work- but other than my LCD now seems to collect more dust on it than the CRT. I do love the fact that I now have more desktop space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 No. They take up so much more space. Once I got used to LCDs, using a CRT (like at school or a friend's place) would hurt my eyes after a while. One thing I give CRTs props for is they last freakin forever! lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pharos Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I miss the smooth refresh rate. I've owned about 5 LCD monitors and all of them had a refresh rate of 60Hz. Most people don't notice the difference, but I certainly do. However, 120Hz monitors are becoming more popular and cheaper to make, so I'll probably upgrade to one early next year or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Do while studying atom structure :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunsprek Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I miss the refresh rate and the deep blacks. Don't miss the size, weight, heat and geometry (never could get that perfect. endlessly messing with "trapezoid" or "pincushion" etc. With LCD's, especially over DVI, it's perfect). Re: the refresh rate; I recently used a PC that had a CRT (and a ball mouse of all things) and marveled at how smooth the mouse cursor tracked across the display. I tried to remember if that's how it always was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDStriker Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I miss the accuracy in colors, the contrast, the viewing angles, and I miss them because you couldnt really hurt the screen. Some ******* put gum on my screen once, so I just took a wire brush and ground it off. Cant exactly do that with most lcds nowadays. +1 I miss the fluid looking display and greater control over brightness among not to mention overall quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceBox Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Certainly a big no. More power consumption, heat, and space occupation made me hate CRTs a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno_Funky Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 All I miss is "Degauss" :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inklin Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I can't stand CRT's after years using an LCD. for some reason CRT's really mucks my eyes up, I see even the slightest flicker and uggh it's aweful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melted98 Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Not a hope in hell of me missing crt's, i got too much desk space back!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
random_n Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I've voted "sorta" due to the fact that it's hard to miss what I'm still using. I've got an old Phillips CRT that I was able to get into the debug menu and perfect the geometry on. With the right polarity settings and refresh rate, there's zero flicker. Text is sharp even with ClearType, colours are great, blacks are beautiful. As for space, heat, and power; my desk is large, my room is spacious, and my electricity is cheap. The only regret I have is not getting the bigger one, since they're all but impossible to find now (well, black ones in good shape anyways). Re: the refresh rate; I recently used a PC that had a CRT (and a ball mouse of all things) and marveled at how smooth the mouse cursor tracked across the display. I tried to remember if that's how it always was. I put in a modified USB driver that runs at 250Hz which halves the normal latency (the mouse couldn't go faster than that, else I'd put it even higher). While I do use a 90Hz display refresh rate, the monitor has less to do with this than you may think. In the past, old serial mice were very difficult to use with a higher sensitivity since they had such poor refresh rates. Not a big deal in 640*480, but it was pretty obvious once you got out of Windows 3.1 and tossed a few more pixels on the display. Windows NT 5.x introduced an option to crank the PS/2 port up to 200Hz which I'll bet was in use on the trackball system you were using. Other things that can influence this on a modern system are the acceleration rate in the Windows control panel (turning this above the halfway point can make the cursor skip pixels), mouse drivers, and of course the mouse itself. Touchpads on laptops vary quite widely in how often and accurately they update. Alps are particularly bad, and for some reason most of them will work more smoothly with the in-box Microsoft drivers than the manufacturer's. If you don't have an overpriced mouse that already supports polling rate adjustments, a program called HIDUSBF will turn up the rate of USB mice without changing the polling rate for other USB equipment. A program called mouserate.exe will show your current polling rate. If mouserate shows you never surpassing 100Hz, then there's something wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craybox Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 yes, for the fluidity of the picture . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardwaremonk Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I would like to vote yes, but I can't miss what I haven't lost yet. I'm near to finishing the second of two dual monitor workstations, using 4 black 21" Dell crt monitors. They have good specs, and I was able to get them new in the box (at an excellent price). They do look mighty good, especially with some carefully chosen dual-monitor wallpaper. The main thing for me is being able to size my desktop up or down for different jobs, without giving up image quality. LCD's generally aren't so flexible. Oh sure, some day I'd love to have an HP 25" LCD in the mix. Heck, I'd even settle for a 24". They do make some things look good. Also, some spaces do call for a shallow display unit for convenience. My back really can't take lifting the the 19"+ crt's anymore, but, lemme tell ya', when I sit down in front of a good one, I can forget about the screen. I've sat in front of too many LCD's that remind me of the bad old days of 15" crt's with a .60 dot pitch... Yes, there are some nice clear high resolution LCD's, but when you're stuck viewing everything at that max resolution, everything looking smaller, it seems to defeat the purpose. I find that I like to run 21" crt's at 1280x960, or even 1024x768. Its rather easy on the eyes. From what I've seen, a comparable LCD will not function, or at least not look good doing it, at those desktop sizes. Speaking of desktop size, my solution to the issue of crt bulk was to get bigger desks. The latest one is an old oak office desk at least as old as I am, but alot more solid... To each their own, but that's my two cents, anyway. Edit note: Nothing is worse than a crt that's running at 60hz - why does no one ever seem to notice? Or fix it? Pet peeve #357... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted April 24, 2010 Veteran Share Posted April 24, 2010 No, I don't miss them at all. Yesterday I upgraded from a 20" LCD to 24", and that gives me another reason not to miss CRTs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted April 24, 2010 Veteran Share Posted April 24, 2010 no. I still have one :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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