[Princess Garnet]

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Originally Posted by Epitope;14177018
I'd still use a CRT if they weren't so freaking big... I kep mine until about 1.5 years ago when it finally bit the dust. It just kept getting darker and darker until finally max brightness just didn't cut it anymore. I noticed how bad it was when I was having to max the gamma settings in games just to see in dark places. That's how much I liked my CRT. I kept it till the bitter end...

Like a true fan!

I am guessing (and hoping!) mine is far from that point since I have it at 45 brightness (and 85 contrast) and it's plenty fine.

Mine, however, seems to be possibly giving out electrically, and it's also a bit blurry.

 

[Misfire]

OK, heres the 411 on the CRT moniter,it's older than what I thought.
SONY,Nov,98 Trinitron Multiscan GDM 500PS. I just hooked it back up and was wrong, It weigh's bout 200lbs, he,he

 

[ChocoboLIVE]

TC, do you know about the TN different are? A example they can't never produce pure red color. Try to match that with pure red paper.

 

[De-Zant]

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Originally Posted by Misfire OK, heres the 411 on the CRT moniter,it's older than what I thought. SONY,Nov,98 Trinitron Multiscan GDM 500PS. I just hooked it back up and was wrong, It weigh's bout 200lbs, he,he

Actually, it does not weight 200lbs

200lbs is 90kg or so.

All 21" CRTs weight from 28kg to 40kg. Somewhere between those two numbers.

The 24" FW900 weights 50kg. Even that doesn't come close to 90kg, which is 200lbs

Was too lazy to convert all numbers to lbs

 

[mrwalker]

You need to install the proper drivers for the monitor. Otherwise it might not work as it should with the default windows drivers (i.e. you might not be able to access the higher refresh rates of the monitor, etc.)

 

[De-Zant]

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Originally Posted by mrwalker You need to install the proper drivers for the monitor. Otherwise it might not work as it should with the default windows drivers (i.e. you might not be able to access the higher refresh rates of the monitor, etc.)

Drivers for monitors? Huh

You install the normal drivers for the GPU, and you can access every conceivable option from there. Refresh rates with an accuracy of 5hz and such. Disabling EDID hhelps if your monitor doesn't allow max res / hz instantly

 

[Misfire]

OK, I jacked with that thing for 2hrs last nite, the latest driver is of 2006, can't even find the product on SONY's website, The best resolution I found was a 32bit col,1600x1200 @85Hz, the color is driveing me crazy! De-Zant- I see what you mean as far as some real nice deep pictures, (just did'nt spend enough time before) but when i get it looking good, (lets say your home page) when you go browsing differant places, the color changes, I think its just too old, the calibration was right on time as far as windows and the dot's and the gray's, whent from extream to extream on moniter in windows and Invidia and in game color, played for about half hour, with it the best you could get, Ugghh, and still could'nt hit nothing, but i could still evade better than ever? he,he. I'm sure the newer CRT's are just better and would love to check them out (IF) I could find a place that display's them.

 

[Misfire]

OK, I did find the manule for it, but what are the color OSD's, I will hook it back up on my secondary test comp and do some homework, still not giveing up yet!

 

[De-Zant]

From what I know, the last high end CRT tubes were manufactured in 2006, and the last low end tubes in 2008 (china, lol)

If you'd like a good CRT, you're gonna have to look for them used. Online auctions are a good way to find some near you. That's how I found my pair.

If you live in a place with not too many people, they are harder to find but also ridiculously cheap. My CRTs cost me 37.5€ combined and the picture quality of my F520 in games... well... nicer than any sub 1000 dollar LCD. I have slight black crushing but that is slight, and tolerable. I have been too lazy to fix such a minor issue. All in all, these CRTs were very worth it for me. Now I'm on the lookout for either a cheap 30" LCD or the 24" CRT FW900. 4:3 is really not optimal, and thus I'm looking at upgrading to widescreen either CRT or LCD. Just that I can't afford a 30" LCD new, or even used most of the time, and nobody is selling FW900s here.

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As for the color issues with your current one, I have no idea. Pics of the issue might make me understand, but I'm really not the guy that would know what each issue with CRTs is caused by. I was nowhere near knowledgeable about computers when CRTs were mainstream.

 

[Misfire]

OH, wow. nevermore huh, so if I want to use a crt, gonna have to work with what I got, gotcha, let me ask you this, would it be better to use the G,R,B on back instead of the VGA, for inputs?

 

[De-Zant]

VGA preferred here. Use it.

 

[Manyak]

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Originally Posted by Misfire OH, wow. nevermore huh, so if I want to use a crt, gonna have to work with what I got, gotcha, let me ask you this, would it be better to use the G,R,B on back instead of the VGA, for inputs?

I'm not quite sure why your colors would be changing depending on what's open, but it could very well just be a signal problem (interference between the R,G,B signals in the cable). Try using a different cable and see what happens.

The BNC connectors on the back of the monitors are only there to allow the use of higher quality, shielded BNC cables. If you split the VGA connection right at your PC and then run the BNC cables separately then yes you might benefit, but unless you can get them really easily and cheaply it's not worth the trouble.

 

[fl0w3n]

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Originally Posted by Misfire OK, I jacked with that thing for 2hrs last nite, the latest driver is of 2006, can't even find the product on SONY's website, The best resolution I found was a 32bit col,1600x1200 @85Hz, the color is driveing me crazy! De-Zant- I see what you mean as far as some real nice deep pictures, (just did'nt spend enough time before) but when i get it looking good, (lets say your home page) when you go browsing differant places, the color changes, I think its just too old, the calibration was right on time as far as windows and the dot's and the gray's, whent from extream to extream on moniter in windows and Invidia and in game color, played for about half hour, with it the best you could get, Ugghh, and still could'nt hit nothing, but i could still evade better than ever? he,he. I'm sure the newer CRT's are just better and would love to check them out (IF) I could find a place that display's them.

This might be the biggest sentence I've ever attempted to read.

 

[djk11]

I have more LCDs than CRTs, but that said...

CRT master race

 

[De-Zant]

Ehh. How I'd want that FW900. :/

It's really a tease to have something so close, yet be unable to have it all.

 

[Manyak]

You know what I could never understand about the FW900....why the hell do they have the USB input right next to the outputs? Wouldn't it be so much nicer if it was on the opposite side of the base? lol

 

[Spooony]

CRT can spit out a lot of frames per second. Unfortunately LCDs are having to abide by the limitations of a CRT to be compatible with your hardware.

 

[De-Zant]

Spoony, would it be possible to create custom firmware/drivers/something for (insertmonitorofyourselectionhere) to make it refresh at higher than it usually could? I mean, I don't know so much about the internal workings of LCDs. What is there to prevent someone from doing this?

 

[Spooony]

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Originally Posted by De-Zant Spoony, would it be possible to create custom firmware/drivers/something for (insertmonitorofyourselectionhere) to make it refresh at higher than it usually could? I mean, I don't know so much about the internal workings of LCDs. What is there to prevent someone from doing this?

for a LCD? LCDs don't have refresh rates only response times. They don't have to blank the screen every x amount odds time. Yet we see the refresh rate in windows. You can do it nothing will happen unlike with a CRT you will get a black out of range screen

 

[De-Zant]

How would one go about enabling (for example) 100hz on a random IPS display? Since, disabling EDID and enabling the setting isn't enough. I assume the monitor is hardwired to prevent such settings or has some sort of on board software making sure specified settings aren't exceeded.