Hello Zhopudey!!
i just assembled my pc after herculean efforts from TE techies to put sense into this dummy!!
Correct me if i am wrong but i think the problem with Lcd is that brightness, clour saturation, colour depth etc are best only from proper viewing angle!!
U move left/right/fwd/back to maybe relax or somethig and it appears hazy or dull!! At least that is applicable to my frnd's Ferrari4000 screen, to some extent.
With crt, you can be anywhere and the screen stays the same(unless U go behind the monitor- he he he...):bleh:
Had checked with Priya group for Viewsonic E90fsb as i wanted a 19" crt with silver/black look, costs 12000/- or maybe lesser now( chk with priya group), but a nice dude there confirmed it doesn't do 1600x1200@75. End of story!!
a 17" flat crt costs around 6500/- and 19" starting at 12000/- plus, it doesn't make any sense to put in 5K extra for 17" performance as the Viewsonic 17" E70fsb or E71fsb are excellent in build and looks, retail at 6750/- and offer 1024x768@87hz!!
The Viewsonic P97 (available in India) does 1600x1200 at 85-87 but costs 18000+. Waste fo money coz some 12K+ monitors offer 1600x1200@75.
Also heard Viewsonic has restarted recently and Warranty by HCL is something not very great to look fwd to!!
Philips has a model @ 12000/- approx that does 1600x1200@76hz, consumes 70W typical as against 100W+ for other brands and available in black too.
but heard Philips aftersales not very good and parts expensivetoo????
Was trying to avoid samsung in my config, but all out here said 997DF very good!! most own it too!!
Darky has philips 21" and he's happy withit but u can't generalise with size diffs!! plus models change with time and you never know if the newer one is as good!!
Checked 997DF specs and they were too good!!
0.23 dot pitch while others r at 0.25- lowest is best!!
does 1600x1200@75!!
Monitor review in Chip2004 rated it highly with impressive High voltage stability!! Featured in Digit A-list too!!
Was for 16000/- in OCT2004, dropped to 13999/- sometime this year, got it for 12500/- finally!!
was out of stock with most dealers and distributor too. stocks not expected for at least a week. Samsung sales rep gave me few nos and called all of them. couldn't believe my ears when last guy in town said yes!!:clap:
Went to his place personally on crutches at 4pm, waited till 8pm and gotit back home in a cab.
hyeah:
and i must say- thanks to switch especially and others too, its well worth all the pain edured by TE due to my incessant Qs and me!!:hap2:
My pal who mocked me on acquiring samsung after my expressed hatred for samsung stuff was left with his lower jaw resting on the floor!!:rofl:
he is always boasting about his philips 17" flat and was downright insulting abt my choice of monitor but when he saw it run, he wanted to die of shame.
Personally i don't know if its the best out there in its price range but i couldn't hav asked for anything better.
the only major hurdle is that it comes in a light brown/ off white shade only.
so my rig is MULTICOLOUR but i plan to paint my cabby in the same shade!!
I have PAKAOed enough and i think i should exit before my GURUS here bash the daylights out of me.
hope you get the thing you want!! All the best!!
BIKEY.