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Gironika
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 Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:35 pm |
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A bit sad to see analogue broadcasts on their way out, but what can you do. It was a way more satisfying experience to use a control dial to find a programme than just pressing "ok" and waiting what the box will find.
Obviously the machine can do it better and will be able to find more than a human could, but I still have this feeling "maybe there is still one out there that I can get by using that dial" ....
didn't stop me from buying a hyper-techy new monitor-tv-hybrid though.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:08 pm |
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two Sony-built SGI-branded (SGI of Donkey Kong-fame, yes) 20" CRTs from March 1996 and April 1997 (and an undated third one that I won't list due to no date-tag) plus a February 2002 Eizo 20" CRT want to have a word with you (Heck, I even can run a 1080p-signal on the SGIs, not sure about the Eizo that my brother was using up till he bought a 24" LCD one).
If it wasn't for a 23" LCD 1080p-monitor I'm using now, I still would rock my SGI-CRT like I used to up till two months ago. I should add that I got these after them being thrown away at several workplaces that wanted to get rid of them, the Eizos from my fathers company, the SGIs from a architect-bureau, so they already had quite some mileage before I got my hands on these.
And I frankly can't believe that those companies would go to the length of sending them in for repair just to give them away for free.
Cheap ones might break, mind you, but proper ones will work till the end of time until you'll switch to a newer model just because newer PCs or consoles support it.
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Gironika
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:27 pm |
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| BenoitRen wrote: |
| LCD: It all depends on how often you use it, but what I said is true. If you think it's bollocks, why don't you go research LCD technology and prove that what I say is wrong. |
Mind you, I'll have to see how long this LCD works, but I hope it'll be around long enough to become a part of the devices I remember fondly like my CRTs.
See, since I got second-hand-models that always were top-notch-products when they were bought and lasted long enough till the previous owner wanted to get rid of it just because he had new hardware, I always got models that were good enough to keep up with office-work that puts lots of mileage on them.
So I don't know what was "better" back then, since I'm used to CRTs running for x-thousand hours before being passed on to me where they are rocked on maximum brightness/contrast/color-settings until new ones come around. Up till now this was always in intervals short enough (three or four years) to get me some "new" CRTs before the old ones failed. My brother reminded me earlier on that one CRT failed me once (supposedly the flyback transformer stopped working), but since I had two backup ones my dad didn't bother to start looking why it did so.
Since I've started having a PC back in 1996, the household I'm living in has used a monochrome 14", two or three color 15" ones, three 17" Siemens ones (one even as a Ikaruga-DC-TATE-monitor that worked fine), three SGI and aforementioned two Eizo (20" each) ones - and one of them stopped working. Shared the spare ones with my siblings and currently two Eizos and one SGI (all 20") are in use by two of them and my dad, whereas three LG LCDs are in use by the more tech-savy of us. If they fail big time, I'll be sure to check back and call you out on that occasion.
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