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   On Sat, 07 May 2005 01:59:00 GMT, ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben   
   Myers) wrote:   
      
   >Honestly, I would not buy any computer or monitor with the HP brand name on   
   it.   
      
   Me neither but it was the best CRT I could find in a store. There's very   
   little selection.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >Dell seems to have good monitors produced for them.  I recently bought over 30   
   >of them from a company that got acquired.  I tested them first, and rejected a   
   >lemon or two.  I had no trouble selling them either direct or thru another   
   >reseller, and everyone who bought one direct from me is very happy with their   
   >monitor.  These are 4-year old Dells, and the newer ones are just as good.    
   Now   
   >I have two left to sell.   
   >   
   >Other decent brands are Sun (newer SVGAs only), NEC, Sony and the IBM P-series   
   >monitors.  I've also dealt with some good quality Compaq-branded monitors.  HP   
   >seems to have preserved the Compaq brand name for the better stuff, the HP   
   name   
   >for junk.  Finally, Viewsonic monitors are OK by me.   
      
   Some of them may be decent. The Compaq I looked at in the store was worse   
   looking than the   
   HP I picked. It had big pixels. The Viewsonic they are selling in my area has   
   blurry text.   
   I saw a new NEC where I used to work that had blurry text right out of the box   
   and it   
   couldn't be fixed by adjusting it. I haven't seen the other 3 brands for sale   
   in my area.   
   It may be that I'm not going to the right place but finding the right place is   
   no easy   
   task. The small computer stores are not very common anymore. I dont' know   
   where you can go   
   to get a good selection, decent price and know you are going to a reliable   
   place.   
      
   >   
   >There is no sense buying a monitor for short money in a mass market store like   
   >Best Buy or Circuit City.  Mass market equates to cheaply made these days.   
   >Spend a few more bucks and get something with good quality, easy on the eyes.   
   >You only get one pair of eyes in this life... Ben Myers   
      
   I've given up on CRTs. No magazines or well known web sites are even reviewing   
   them   
   anymore from what I can see. No manufacturers are making aperture grille   
   monitors unless   
   you get something bigger than 19". Now all that is left is shadow mask which   
   isn't very   
   good based on what I've looked at and without reviews there is no way to know   
   which of the   
   not very good monitors are not lousy. ;-) I tried using my own judgement and   
   that was a   
   disaster. :-) The colors looked fine in the store but the one I brought home   
   with me seems   
   to be different.   
      
   >   
   >On Fri, 06 May 2005 23:37:34 GMT, DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Fri, 06 May 2005 16:46:43 -0600, Notan  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On Fri, 06 May 2005 06:15:49 -0700, Curious  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> >On Fri, 06 May 2005 10:03:37 GMT, DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote:   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> >>I'm using Windows 95b. There is a way to make the color more red or   
   whatever you want.  I   
   >>>> >>remember there is a way to save more than one setting. There is no   
   adjusment on the   
   >>>> >>monitor itself to do this. The monitor is an HP mx705. It's a Dell PC.   
   I forgot how to   
   >>>> >>make these adjustments and had no luck with Google.   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> >What are the control buttons on the front of the monitor for?  How   
   >>>> >about looking into Control Panel, Display, and the graphics card   
   >>>> >controls?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I don't see anything in the Display Properties. The controls on the front   
   of the monitor   
   >>>> are for brightness, contrast,  moire, degauss and adjusting the shape of   
   the picture like   
   >>>> pincushion, trapezoid, etc. There's also something called color   
   temperature. I changed it   
   >>>> from 9300 to 6500 and it makes a big difference but the color still   
   doesn't look right.   
   >>>> It's still washed out. The colors are very dull. Not rich at all. I might   
   return this   
   >>>> monitor and get an LCD since all CRTs that I can find are crap. It will   
   be worth the 15%   
   >>>> restocking charge. Have you ever used software that is supposed to   
   calibrate your monitor?   
   >>>> I don't know anything about them or even what they do. I'll have to read   
   about it. Thanks.   
   >>>   
   >>>"...all CRTs that I can find are crap."   
   >>>   
   >>>You're looking in the wrong place(s). While LCD technology is newer,   
   >>>there are still some great CRT monitors on the market.   
   >>   
   >>Can you list a few that are for sale and tell me where they are selling   
   them? I'll return   
   >>the hunk o' crap I have now and get a good one if I can find one.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>Notan   
   >>   
      
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