Size Does Matter

She left out the part of her moaning and crying. You know, like she always does over size.

Size does matter, but bigger isn't always better. After all, at some point the monitor isn't going to fit into the room, and what do you do then, kick down the wall? Put it in the lawn? Move to a new house?

Move to a new house?

Sounds good to me!

I'd rather have a 17" LCD then a 19" CRT.

I got a 19" lcd a few weeks ago and it's so nice and clear that I have no idea why I didn't spend the money sooner.

I can't justify spending cash on an LCD when you can acquire a better CRT for 1/2 the price. Response time, color and other criteria on LCD's are still a little behind CRTS. But they are nice to look at in the home.

I have to disagree with that.  The LCDs that I have been using blow away any CRT that I have owned or used at work.

My home PC is used for my photography business.  I bought the CRT that I was using after having two others that weren't clear enough.  I ended up buying a specialized one that was supposed to be extremely clear and easy to color calibrate (which is important for knowing what a print will look like).  None of them can compare to the clarity of the LCD that I have.  I see slight details in the LCD that I never saw on any of the CRTs that I owned or used.  The LCD is also easier to color profile and doesn't oversaturate like most of the CRTs do out there. 

I got a nice 19" crt for $189 about a year ago, i have been thrilled with it and had no problems with it. What does a 17" lcd go for these days? 4 times that?

I'll stick with my crt thank you very much!

Although I would love to have the LCD if someone wanted to give one to me!!!

So youre saying that a ViewSonic G220FB for $470 will be outperformed by 19" ViewSonic VG900 for $530? Just curious!?

Actually, 17" LCD's go for about double that to be fair $250-$350), prices have dropped alot the past 9 months.

I got a nice 19" crt for $189 about a year ago, i have been thrilled with it and had no problems with it. What does a 17" lcd go for these days? 4 times that?

Oh, Geez, no!  My 19" LCD was less than $400 (had a $100 rebate...but I've never bought a monitor when not on sale).  My last monitor was a very high end crt and cost almost that much.

For $756 (4 times the cost of your 1 year old monitor) you could get a very high end 19" or low end 20-21".  A 17" is about $300 to $350 (not on sale).

The LCD monitor does have several significant advantages, mainly: Naturally flat screen (no curvature), much smaller footprint, less moving parts to wear out, and no problems with focus or blurriness (each pixel is independently owned and operated; no electron gun to go out of whack). The CRT still has the advantage in cost (though LCDs are gaining as the technology matures), response time (LCD pixels generally take at least 20milliseconds to change states, which limits your effective frame rate on movies and games to 50FPS or less), and overall picture quality--as in, you don't get burned-out pixels on a CRT. With an LCD, you may have to accept as many as a dozen dead pixels before the manufacturer will agree that it is defective.

My philosophy on buying a monitor is, get the best monitor you can afford. Skimp on the CPU or RAM if you have to, an extra second or three won't kill you, but a bad monitor will contribute to decaying eyesight.

LCD would be outstanding, but considering we are only looking to spend $100-$150 on a "gaming" monitor for my hobbies, I think the LCD is out.

But the size of my CRT matters greatly, my vision prescription is worsening exponentially the longer I stare at this old 17".

BoooHoooHooo!

I have a 23" Iiyama Vision Pro510. I find even using a 19" monitor is small.

Yep, I'm a size queen.

-- B

mine is pretty big but i guess i gotta defer to mr frog (this was gonna be lots more amusing when i originally began it about 6 hours ago...but then the power went out for like 40 seconds and ...) radius printview21sr.  ya cant just plug it in anywhere

I have a 23" Iiyama Vision Pro510. I find even using a 19" monitor is small. Yep, I'm a size queen.

I am green with envy!

I have a 19" Viewsonic G90fb and it works just fine, though if I need a bigger screen I can just flip to my Samsung 30" Widescreen HDTV and enjoy a bigger screen.

Though my 19" has a flat screen but is not an LCD, no curvature what so ever on the screen just like my HDTV from Samsung, though I think I will eventually trade up for a DLP TV from Samsung when I have the money to do so, plus space for the 40-50" widescreen TV.

Keep on rocking in a PC world with Plinko games!!

Viewsonic Ultrabrite e70f+ It works wonders for me as a gaming monitor. It's very bright, which is great since some games is really dark.

My monitor took pretty bad hit ( enough to crack and partially remove the front trim ) and it keep ticking. It's bit more sensitive to noises or vibration but for a monitor that got hard that hard it's working very well. Basically it shows darker strips when it get hit with loud ( or maybe not loud? Can't tell, but when I shout, it does that strips thingy. ) noise or vibration.