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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

My old monitor literally blew up, loudly as I was using it the other day. The gamma had gone so I set the colour warmths to a rediculously high level.

Anyway, I figured it was probably better to ask other artists about the better monitors than the sharky hardware forums.

Anyone have any recommendations? I like to work at high res (above 1024x768) so a TFT is pretty much out of the question. Also, something that's not too pricey. I know that CRTs are going down in price because the new TFTs are getting all the development money at the moment.

dr . bang · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:09 am

Samsung are quite cheap and nice i heard!

Sony is expensive as FUCK but you can use it for 10 years!

soogarrush · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:15 am

Gort · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:19 am

NEC, Samsung and Viewsonic (my preference) CRTs are insanely inexpensive these days. Any one of those brands are easily within reach and reputable.
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dr . bang · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:56 am

one more thing, samsumg crt will look shitty after 2-3 years.

egerie · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 9:17 am

really ?

why ?

lel · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 10:55 am

Periadam · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:24 pm

I've always really loved my 19" Samsung 995DF. It has some gorgeous curves...
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Hase · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 5:21 pm

I recently bought a Philips 21�� crt, they�re rather cheap now that the TFTs are taking over... and 21 inches do mean pure comfort... I�d rather work on an old 486 than give away my monitor.

gezstar · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 11:03 am

iiyama flat screen crt's are really good, as are mitsubishi diamondtrons. I'm on a sony 200sx at the moment, but it's losing its convergence a little, which means there's a slight red ghosting to the left of the pixels.
I heard lcd's aren't good enough colour-wise for digital art yet. is that true?

Sukhoi · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 2:26 pm

Most of them can't display nearly as many colours as crt's but I doubt you'd notice it in most cases..

Mitsubishi has good colour reproduction, I hear, and Sony's are usually sharp, but rather cool in the colours. That's my experience, anyways.

I have no experience with others than Sony og Mitsubishi tubes. (I am currently on a mistubishi tube (LaCie electron 21/108))

By the way, Wasn't Sony fisrt with the "flat" technology, FD trinitron?? (they aren't REALLY flat, it's just the glass infront of the tube wich "distorts" the image to be flat.

Five cents.

Sukhoi

dr . bang · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 3:35 pm

"usually sharp, but rather cool in the colours."

Ive used Sony and the color are really true and their monitor arent as sharp as others one.

To choose a monitor with good color, find a small picture and put it in the middle of a black background. Adjust the brightness to about average, then observe.

If the black bg is still stays BLACK and the picture is still pretty and saturated then the monitor gots good color. But if the bg is GREY and the picture color is desatured, then the monitor have bad colors.
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