Digital BW, The Print

On 2 Nov 2004 at 4:13, Dennis W. Manasco wrote:

> 
> 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.

I have always thought the biggest problem with CRTs is the fact that for every inch 
of diagonal measurement you get an inch of depth.  The 19" CRT I am viewing this 
on, is at least 19" from front to back.  It takes over the desk and part of the room as 
well......

Not to mention the weight, and the fact you need a lot of air space around one, for 
cooling. The reason the cat likes to sit on top of the TV or the monitor is the fact it's 
usually the warmest place in the room.  Funny thing is, I have 4 cats, and none of 
them has ever sat on either the monitor or the TV......

W