Digital BW, The Print

At 3:56 pm +0100 11/1/04, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:

>  > Sony has stopped production of their Artisan monitor <sigh>. A sign
>>  of the times? It may be we won't have much of a choice soon.
>
>Since CRTs are still superior to flat panels, why did they stop?
>
>Is it like digital in place of film?


Anthony --

The consumer preference for LCDs goes a lot deeper than the 
digital/film question: Anyone who has ever humped a 25" television up 
two flights of stairs is going to be a very hard sell for a 21" CRT 
monitor over a 23" LCD.

The relative mobility of LCDs (and their reduced desktop footprint, 
and the elimination of the narrow-desk-at-a-wall problem) far 
outweighs dMax considerations for most customers. And LCDs are 
getting better every day.

I've loved working with most of the quality CRTs we've had, but their 
color and maximum brightness changed a lot over the first few years; 
three or four years was about the limit of their color-critical 
usability for our purposes. I have yet to have those problems with 
our LCDs (though none of them are three years old yet...).

YMMV, but I can shift an ACD 30" by myself; moving around 21" CRTs 
was always an...adventure.... I would never be able to move a 30" CRT 
alone.


Best wishes,

-=-Dennis


p.s.: We've gone to LCD monitors, but I still believe that digital 
has a long way to go before it eclipses film FWIW.