Monitors

[George Schill]

I'm ready to put my old six year old CRT monitor in the grave, and was
looking to buy an LCD.
I guess.
I've been looking at a 20.5 inch Viewsonic pro model---which runs
around $ 430 bucks online.
A few illustrators are telling me to just grab one from Sam's club for
$ 250-that basically they're all the same and will be a vast
improvement over my dying CRT, as far as clarity and contrast.
Others have told me to go much better than the Viewsonic spending in
the $ 800 range to have all the features that I'll need.
Something about less of a chance of having ' dead pixels' on the
screen and the ability to arrive at better color calibration.
Until now, I just calibrated my monitor with the built in calibration
wizard---pretty primitive--and it seems fine for my needs.
My theory is that once a file is sent, the final results are pretty
much out of my control anyway.

Anyone happy with their LCD monitors that they would recommend?
Thanks
george

[Craig Jennion]

Hey George, I'm not sure about how much money you need to spend but I
recently bought a 19" Samsung that I am very happy with. One thing I
have heard is to stay away from the Viewsonic because they have
tendency to not last very long. I know of one person who bought one
and it only outlasted the 1 year warranty by about a month.

Craig

[George Schill]

Thanks Craig!
I've heard of other people having problems with Viewsionic as
well....great picture, but they don't last long.
Those are out.
I was actually considering a Samsung as well that I saw online.

I was wondering if you could do me a favor ...measure your image area
across the top and down ...I want to at least match what I have now,
and a 19 '' may do it.
Some online specs don't include that, and some are more horizontal
than others, losing the depth.
( My 19"' CRT has an actual viewing area of 14 1/2 " across, 11"
down...)

Thanks
george

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[Craig Jennion]

Hi George, for some reason I didn't recieve this until now but you
will be happy to know that my monitor is 15x12.

Craig

On Apr 18, 9:45 am, George Schill <llih...@aol.com> wrote:
> Thanks Craig!
> I've heard of other people having problems with Viewsionic as
> well....great picture, but they don't last long.
> Those are out.
> I was actually considering a Samsung as well that I saw online.
>
> I was wondering if you could do me a favor ...measure your image area
> across the top and down ...I want to at least match what I have now,
> and a 19 '' may do it.
> Some online specs don't include that, and some are more horizontal
> than others, losing the depth.
> ( My 19"' CRT has an actual viewing area of 14 1/2 " across, 11"
> down...)
>
> Thanks
> george
>

> for meOn Apr 14, 12:06?pm, "Craig Jennion" <cjenn...@yahoo.com>

> wrote:
>
> > Hey George, I'm not sure about how much money you need to spend but I
> > recently bought a 19" Samsung that I am very happy with. One thing I
> > have heard is to stay away from the Viewsonic because they have
> > tendency to not last very long. I know of one person who bought one
> > and it only outlasted the 1 year warranty by about a month.
>
> > Craig
>
> > On Apr 12, 10:02 am, "George Schill" <llih...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'm ready to put my old six year old CRT monitor in the grave, and was
> > > looking to buy an LCD.
> > > I guess.
> > > I've been looking at a 20.5 inch Viewsonic pro model---which runs
> > > around $ 430 bucks online.
> > > A few illustrators are telling me to just grab one from Sam's club for
> > > $ 250-that basically they're all the same and will be a vast

> > > improvement over my dying ?CRT, as far as clarity and contrast.