Big Tube vs. LED Monitors

I have two "big tube" monitors that seem to have shorts in the cord that connects to the PC.

They are a DELL M991 and a Hewlett Packard M90.

I'm curious if any of you would find it worth it to repair these big tube monitors, or would you just discard and move onto a new monitor?

It seems to me that the big tube monitors were generally more reliable and I am curious as to what the common consensus was in that respect.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

wrote:
I have two "big tube" monitors that seem to have shorts in the cord
that connects to the PC.

How did you make that diagnosis?



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On Tue, 10 May 2016 16:33:25 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:


It seems to me that the big tube monitors were generally more reliable
and I am curious as to what the common consensus was in that respect.

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I'm running the oldest LCD flat-panel monitor (still) in existence on
the WEB. One of the first available at $1500, which I bought when it
dropped to $800US.

Syntax/Olevia 32" (includes an aerial demodulation board. Native
addressible pixels, vis a 15-pin VGA connector, should be in the
magnitude of 1368x768.)

Original backlite tubes and run 24/7 w/ a screenblanker capable of
turning off the tubes.

Here's to looking at your old 19" CRTs that weight 60lbs. ea., on my
old LCD (still pretty hefty for LCD, probably twice the weight of a
modern LED thin-form factoring, roughly @12lbs., to a 40" screen).

Still probably the sweet-spot, too, 32", so far as price averaging;-
even with a fair shake to available new units with a VGA plug,
considering how old VGA is.

On Tue, 10 May 2016, wrote:

I have two "big tube" monitors that seem to have shorts in the cord that
connects to the PC.

They are a DELL M991 and a Hewlett Packard M90.

I'm curious if any of you would find it worth it to repair these big
tube monitors, or would you just discard and move onto a new monitor?

It seems to me that the big tube monitors were generally more reliable
and I am curious as to what the common consensus was in that respect.

I've had my LCD monitor since at least 2009, me finding it lying on the
sidewalk when the students moved out. It seemed a bit small at the time,
but it works fine.

I was glad to discard my Dell 19" monitor, I don't really miss the larger
screen, but I'm really glad to get rid of that giant and heavy monitor.

I've found LCD monitors since, I just can't be bothered to swap in one of
the larger ones.

The second LCD monitor I found was a larger Acer, and it kept resetting
itself, ending up just displaying the Acer logo. A few electrolytics in
the power supply replaced and all is well.

I have instant on, no need for a CRT to warm up, yet lower current draw.

I'd never go back to a CRT monitor.

Michael

On Fri, 13 May 2016 12:33:24 -0400, Michael Black wrote:

| I'd never go back to a CRT monitor.

Do they even make them anymore?

Larc

Michael Black wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2016, wrote:

I have two "big tube" monitors that seem to have shorts in the cord
that connects to the PC.

They are a DELL M991 and a Hewlett Packard M90.

I'm curious if any of you would find it worth it to repair these big
tube monitors, or would you just discard and move onto a new monitor?

It seems to me that the big tube monitors were generally more reliable
and I am curious as to what the common consensus was in that respect.

I've had my LCD monitor since at least 2009, me finding it lying on the
sidewalk when the students moved out. It seemed a bit small at the
time, but it works fine.

I was glad to discard my Dell 19" monitor, I don't really miss the
larger screen, but I'm really glad to get rid of that giant and heavy
monitor.

I've found LCD monitors since, I just can't be bothered to swap in one
of the larger ones.

The second LCD monitor I found was a larger Acer, and it kept resetting
itself, ending up just displaying the Acer logo. A few electrolytics in
the power supply replaced and all is well.

I have instant on, no need for a CRT to warm up, yet lower current draw.

I'd never go back to a CRT monitor.

Michael

To be fair, if a person has been using CRT monitors,
their first LCD will feel like "a flashlight in the face".
I found my first LCD to be tiring in that respect - it
felt like it was washing out my vision or something.
Today, it's not an issue.

Paul

....
To be fair, if a person has been using CRT monitors,
their first LCD will feel like "a flashlight in the face".
I found my first LCD to be tiring in that respect - it
felt like it was washing out my vision or something.
Today, it's not an issue.

Ditto. I hated the early LCDs. They didn't show pure blackness and
stuff.
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On Fri, 13 May 2016 20:30:10 -0500, (Ant) wrote:

Ditto. I hated the early LCDs. They didn't show pure blackness and
stuff.

Microsoft Net3 coloring codes...
http://www.nbdtech.com/images/blog/2.../AllColors.png

Many of lower color codes, up and to about 150 (Tornado) might
struggle for distinction, but notice the scale of actual numbering
between black and discernible darker colors;- a wider (logarithmic)
spread and narrower units reacting to an upper assignment of perceived
lighter colors.

Quite a feat at balances between to avoid going off on skews of
adjustment that swallow, indistinctly, potentials at either extreme so
long as both are neither wholly encompassed.

Must be tough stuff for compensatory advertising, now within basically
achievable $200/US 40" displays, imaginably to spin ever intricate
webs of snake-skin oil in exacting that very last dollar.

There's another algorithm that might posit technology for a
provisional increase of popularly received good items within given
utility, such that their improved quality would, at some marginalized
residual, exceed former standards of reserved aesthetic judgment quite
naturally to inculcate specialized training in recess resources for
fewer then to compliment;- which is particularly interesting at that
same residual point, such that popularly as well should forgo most
sensibilities for taste at its adaptative convergence. A bombastic
theory otherwise of barbarity, as it were.

On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 8:10:47 AM UTC-4, Flasherly wrote:
On Fri, 13 May 2016 20:30:10 -0500, (Ant) wrote:

Ditto. I hated the early LCDs. They didn't show pure blackness and
stuff.

Microsoft Net3 coloring codes...
http://www.nbdtech.com/images/blog/2.../AllColors.png

Many of lower color codes, up and to about 150 (Tornado) might
struggle for distinction, but notice the scale of actual numbering
between black and discernible darker colors;- a wider (logarithmic)
spread and narrower units reacting to an upper assignment of perceived
lighter colors.

Quite a feat at balances between to avoid going off on skews of
adjustment that swallow, indistinctly, potentials at either extreme so
long as both are neither wholly encompassed.

Must be tough stuff for compensatory advertising, now within basically
achievable $200/US 40" displays, imaginably to spin ever intricate
webs of snake-skin oil in exacting that very last dollar.

There's another algorithm that might posit technology for a
provisional increase of popularly received good items within given
utility, such that their improved quality would, at some marginalized
residual, exceed former standards of reserved aesthetic judgment quite
naturally to inculcate specialized training in recess resources for
fewer then to compliment;- which is particularly interesting at that
same residual point, such that popularly as well should forgo most
sensibilities for taste at its adaptative convergence. A bombastic
theory otherwise of barbarity, as it were.

Thanks everyone. I know that an LED TV is just a type of LCD TV, so I'm assuming "LCD" is close enough.

I have a 27 inch TV with the big picture tube that I'd just hate to throw out since it works. Though it does take up space I can use.

The short in the cable of my DELL PC monitor cause intermittent loss of the color red of the picture entirely when the cable moves even slightly. I know it's know the PC motherboard because a small LED monitor I have works with it without that problem.

So I guess the old DELL and Hewlett Packard are headed for recycling.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

On Fri, 13 May 2016, Larc wrote:

On Fri, 13 May 2016 12:33:24 -0400, Michael Black wrote:

| I'd never go back to a CRT monitor.

Do they even make them anymore?

Larc

I don't know.

But since I never bought a new CRT monitor, I'd expect them to be
available the same way for some time, either someone offering me one for
free, or finding one on the sidewal.

Michael