Sony phasing out CRT monitors

Submitted by Brain on
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[url]http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,841366,00.asp[/url]

In brief, they're dissolving their 17" and 19" CRT monitors and focussing on LCDs, though they'll still be making 21" and 24" CRTs. By the sounds of things, a fair portion of monitor manufacturers are heading the same way.

Thing is, I've always preferred the CRT's colour reproduction, and have chosen that over space everytime. Unless current LCDs are doing a much better job of it since I last looked around...

Thoughts?

Chris Bowden
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Submitted by Daemin on Sun, 26/01/03 - 12:27 AMPermalink

The main benefit of the CRT's is that they are much better for gaming, since they can switch between colours really quickly, and LCD's get ghosted images usually, like when playing quake3 and moving in one of the space levels you can see the bright areas ghost over the dark black space areas. Although it would be nice having a few LCD's as secondary monitors / for working with, since you can fir them more easily on a desk.

I guess if they're only manufacturing 21" + CRT's then gamers will eventually upgrade to them.

Submitted by bradb on Sun, 26/01/03 - 7:34 AMPermalink

Thats almost as bad as my desk
Seriously though for dual monitor a LCD would be perfect for my 2nd and third screen options.

You would not believe the amount of heat my current two CRT's (19" Pri - 17" Sec) generate in my small room - i would have a third as well but i just fit it in *grin*

Submitted by inglis on Sun, 26/01/03 - 8:00 AMPermalink

hopefully it will kick in a lot more lcd competition and make them cheap :)
my 19" crt is around 4 years old. in human years thats about 250?

lachlan inglis
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Submitted by Maitrek on Tue, 28/01/03 - 3:44 AMPermalink

I think LCDs are getting better all the time. Alot of the early ones had that kind of laptop look to them, where everything had a shadowed when there was alot of movement.
I would imagine Sony would be phasing out CRTs because the market for them is getting smaller and smaller and less profitable. Plus, one way or another, LCDs are going to be the technology of tomorrow, and investing in their development now is probably a good thing anyway so that we don't have to deal with crap LCD monitors forever.

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Posted by Brain on
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[url]http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,841366,00.asp[/url]

In brief, they're dissolving their 17" and 19" CRT monitors and focussing on LCDs, though they'll still be making 21" and 24" CRTs. By the sounds of things, a fair portion of monitor manufacturers are heading the same way.

Thing is, I've always preferred the CRT's colour reproduction, and have chosen that over space everytime. Unless current LCDs are doing a much better job of it since I last looked around...

Thoughts?

Chris Bowden
http://brain.gamekey.com/

Submitted by Daemin on Sun, 26/01/03 - 12:27 AMPermalink

The main benefit of the CRT's is that they are much better for gaming, since they can switch between colours really quickly, and LCD's get ghosted images usually, like when playing quake3 and moving in one of the space levels you can see the bright areas ghost over the dark black space areas. Although it would be nice having a few LCD's as secondary monitors / for working with, since you can fir them more easily on a desk.

I guess if they're only manufacturing 21" + CRT's then gamers will eventually upgrade to them.

Submitted by bradb on Sun, 26/01/03 - 7:34 AMPermalink

Thats almost as bad as my desk
Seriously though for dual monitor a LCD would be perfect for my 2nd and third screen options.

You would not believe the amount of heat my current two CRT's (19" Pri - 17" Sec) generate in my small room - i would have a third as well but i just fit it in *grin*

Submitted by inglis on Sun, 26/01/03 - 8:00 AMPermalink

hopefully it will kick in a lot more lcd competition and make them cheap :)
my 19" crt is around 4 years old. in human years thats about 250?

lachlan inglis
Showreel WIP: http://effectism.com/sample/

Submitted by Maitrek on Tue, 28/01/03 - 3:44 AMPermalink

I think LCDs are getting better all the time. Alot of the early ones had that kind of laptop look to them, where everything had a shadowed when there was alot of movement.
I would imagine Sony would be phasing out CRTs because the market for them is getting smaller and smaller and less profitable. Plus, one way or another, LCDs are going to be the technology of tomorrow, and investing in their development now is probably a good thing anyway so that we don't have to deal with crap LCD monitors forever.

Snootchie bootchies!
Any off-topic issues send to maitrek@austarmetro.com.au