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[ankitunlimited]

i bought a Samsung Syncmaster 17" LCD monitor a few days ago its awesome and feels much bigger than my old 15" CRT and looks a lot cooler. Now i can afford to put large resolutions. And the colours and brightness is crystal clear.

Which monitor do you have, reply.

edit::

for those who have big monitors 17" and above, you need high resolution wallpapers, i found one such site
http://interfacelift.com/

Edited by ankitunlimited, 31 March 2006 - 07:20 AM.

[sm00nie]

I may have the exact same monitor as yourself . Mine's also the Samsung Syncmaster, model 750s and it's pretty chunky I must say, but show me one crt that isnt . I have a second monitor that's a LG 19" flat screen.

[Blacklaser]

Well on my laptop I got an Alienware 15.4" widescreen and as desktop monitor I use a 19" iiyamaha SynchMaster 450 pro. Both of these are absoluetly amazing monitors.

[ankitunlimited]

enough discussion about what kind of monitor, what advantages and disadvantages do you see between a LCD monitor and a CRT one. For one i have trouble adjusting to the color difference. but a good thing is that it occupies much less space, so lots more space to put other things.

[Dragonfly]

As a laptop user mine I should say the monitor is very satisfying. Precisely mine is compaq presario one.... When I was using desktop a couple of years ago my eyes got strained easily if I spend more than 5 hours in front of the screen. Now, all those problems have gone. I can stay in front of my screen as long as I have the will and strength to stay.

LCD flat monitors are definitely 'in' even for desktop because they are so comfortable with naked eyes.

[Cool_Freaker]

Yeah I'm using a 17" BenQ LCD 4ms screen. Boy, everything is much crisper than on my old 17" CRT - not to mention brighter. The viewing angles can be a bit of a pain sometimes though, as well as some things being too dark/too bright. I guess the best thing going for LCD's is the fact that you can look at them for so much longer, as Dragonfly said.

[Vikrant]

hi friend. i am using lg fat monitor 15 inches. but now i want to change my monitor. i wanna change it with LCD monitor. so can you please suggess me which monitor should i buy. i want 17 inches monitor. monitor which u are using is that good. what about its graphics. please tell me all the details. and if u have any website on which i can know about the monitors then tell me.

[grnjd]

I have a sucky crt aoc monitor. The display and resolution is terrible, sometimes its too bright and sometimes its too darks, and it hurts my eyes. The thing that really annoys me is that you can't completely shut of the monitor, you can only do it if you reach behind it big bulky monitor itself and shut it off manually. I guess thats what you get for buying it for 50 bucks off of ebay.

[adriantc]

Well I am 19" Philips 190S5 bought an year ago. I remember when I first installed it that compared to my old 17" CRT it seemed so huge. It looked like it took a hundred years just to cross the screen with the pointer . It doesn't have any great stuff, it is quite balanced. The weak point I think is the fact that colors seem to fade it you don't look at it exactly right (yeah I know thta is the weak point of every LCD). Even if is has a 10ms response time that is no problem o me. I played games with enought frames per second to exced the response time and I didn't have any quality problems with it. And above all I like the design...

[spy_charly]

i have an oldie one, a 17" mv73oi compaq, it has now like siyears with me and some months ago it broke, so i had to take it with some one who were able to repair it, i think it is ok now, but it has some troubles in some times like if it were about to broke again....

i was thinking about buying a new one a flat 19" monitor maybe from any generic company, it is the same for me, it just has to show the screen lol

see ya guys!

[PanZero]

im sitting on 17'' CTX crt monitor with 120 hertzs

[ankitunlimited]

Vikrant, on Apr 2 2006, 11:09 AM, said:

hi friend. i am using lg fat monitor 15 inches. but now i want to change my monitor. i wanna change it with LCD monitor. so can you please suggess me which monitor should i buy. i want 17 inches monitor. monitor which u are using is that good. what about its graphics. please tell me all the details. and if u have any website on which i can know about the monitors then tell me.

As you live in delhi, i reccomend you go to Nehru Place, check out the LCD monitors at the big shops, there is one Benq showroom which has all their monitors running at display. Check out the ones from LG, Samsung , Sony and Benq. The one which suits your budget and the one which you feel has good functionality is the one you need to buy.

[antwill]

Unfortunatly i am using a very, very old monitor. So it is not a LCD and is a very bad CRT monitor, it is not flat screen either so it really hurts my eyes, as much as i would love an LCD monitor i feel they cost way too much money and i have a little sister who will most probably draw on it. So my question is when i am going to buy my new computer (most probably around May or June) should i get a Flat screen CRT or just keep my current one, oh and if it matters to the question i will be buying the parts not a built PC. So the parts will be cheaper. But the LCD's are still pretty expensive at $319-440 depending on the brand and the screen size.

[tonyused]

I have a 17" Phillips flat screen LCD. good for space saving, better for eyes & brightness, easier to adjust with adjustment software

[tuddy]

I have a 17" LG Studioworks Monitor, and all i can say is that, if you can view content on it, then its a good monitor. Then again, with most people these days complaining abouteye strain while playing games, monitors will only improve and with that, get more expensive.

[wansuen]

I'm using an iiyama prolite 3431s which is a 17" LCD monitor. At the time when I first bought the monitor I really wanted to have one that of course would be able to played games reasonably so I wanted it to at least to have a 16ms responce time or less and also I wanted it to be able to take DVI input because of the improved clarity.

I think LCDs at the time were quite a bit more expensive than now, maybe by about 100 dollars and I didn't have that much money so this was the cheapest one I could find that fit the bill and also has some good reviews. What really made this monitor a sweet deal was because of the problems this monitor ended up having, which i know sounds weird. But eventually, maybe about 6months to a year after I bought the monitor it was starting to have issues with weird vertical lines showing on the monitor and then eventually it just totally just gave out and it wouldn't display anything on it anymore. So i called the iiyama tech support and they honestly didn't seem to ask nearly as many questions about the problems as I thought that the would and they told me where I should ship the monitor to (their repair center). I made sure I got the deliver confirmation and even after 2 weeks after the USPS said they got it, the customer service at iiyama said that it has not been reported as being received, so basically for a little over a month I was out of a monitor for the only computer that I had so it was getting really annoying and I would email the customer service people close to twice a week trying to get an update and after a little over a month later I got it back and it worked except for when I played video files there were some lines that looked like kind of like interlacing problems, but they were there with all videos, and because I wasn't really thinking and just automatically thought it must be that the monitor wasnt fixed that I emailed them back and told them that the monitor was still bad and I expected them to send me a new one soon. I guess I just got them so frustrated that they did exactly that and I now have two of the monitors because they never told me to send the other one back. By the time i got the second one, i realized that it was just a drivers/codec issue that I had haha and the monitor in fact did work just fine.

So I had a dual 17in setup for a while and it totally rocked! Awesome being able to watch videos when surfing the net and the desktop backgrounds that stretched across both screens were always impressive, but I eventually just gave one of them to my parents because they were still using a 17in CRT.

Now I want to get a widescreen monitor at least 20in, price vs performance I think the dell 2005fps still seems like the best deal, so I just need to save up some more to get another awesome monitor setup!

[lairz]

I have a Samsung 715N LCD 17" (i think thats the right model, dont really remember lol)

Well, it seems to be larger than my other Samsung 753DF 17" CRT and the resolution on my LCD can be set to much higher. This is mainly because they measure CRTs not by the screen size but by the frame size unlike the LCD which are measured by the size of their actual screen. The only drawback of LCDs is their response time, if it is anything higher than 18ms you will see the "ghosting" effect when playing games so it is preffered to have a bigger CRT monitor with a high refresh rate for games.

Edited by lairz, 09 April 2006 - 03:54 PM.

[farsiscript]

i have asus notebook and my notebook monitor is 15" tftp
its really bad monitor becuase i can not view a monitor in all side
its really bad monitor becuase its has very bad quality for play movie
its really bad monitor becuase its shake screen
its really bad monitor becuase its i can not choise higher resolution 1024 *767
Its really bad
oh my good some one plz help me
do you think how can i fix this problem ?
Buy monitor ? change my notebook ?
if i want monitor what monitor you recommend it ?
thanks all

[Aurex]

I have an old Dell Tinitron, 21". It is huge and starting to show its age. It makes a very loud noise when I turn it on, as if to remind me I have disturbed its sleep. Picking thsi *BLEEP* up is a pain too. Very soon it will be time to switch to a flat screen.....too bad my cat will have to find another sleeping spot.

[DogEater008]

i got a 15 inches LCD MAG analog display... It isn't that great.. the max resolution is 1028 by 768 (don't know the exact ratio). After using my brother's 20 inches LCD viewsonice widescreen monitor for a week.. it makes my 15 inches monitor looks really SMALL..I feel like getting stuck in a really small box. .

[DeveloperX]

I have Samtron 73v 17" TFT monitor.
It have very low cost...
And very high features.

[kawasu]

i'm using an old ViewSonic E70f which is the monitor equivilent to a mobile brick. even so, the image quality is amazing. ViewSonic have the best monitors imho, the image always appears crisper to me. all the old monitors i had were great but the sonics have that lil something extra. cant really make of it, they're just finer monitors. :T

[PyramidHead777]

Mine is a 17" FLATRON 1280x1024, it's very cool compared to my old 19" LG CRT monitor.

Edited by PyramidHead777, 11 June 2008 - 08:02 AM.

[fffanatics]

Yeah i am a laptop user and i currently run a dual montor display system using the 15.4 widescreen laptop monitor at resolution 1920x1200 and i also use a Mag Innovision 14'' LCD Monitor at resolution of 1024x768. My laptop monitor is super clear but the one by Mag is a 5 year old lcd monitor which does not have the greatest contrast but still is very good and takes very little space which is why i like it.

[harad]

PyramidHead777, on Apr 11 2006, 02:27 PM, said:

Well, the sunday I bought my LCD monitor, it's a 17" Silver FLATRON L1717S with a resolution of 1280x1024, it's very clear & i bought it at only $30, now I can put my webcam int he monitor hehe, it's very cool compared to my old 19" LG CRT monitor.

omg, that's friggin cheap!

i have a 22" Compaq P1220 <crt>, not a bad one but i'm going for a new lcd >19" next year.