First post, by carlostex
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Seriously i'm getting tired...
So i started using CRT's again. I'm using a Samtron 76E for my VGA machines and there's just no contest, i don't even want to deal with LCD's again.
So i also decided to get a 15" CRT for my RGBi machines, the Turbo XT, Tandy 1000 and my EGA 286. Using the FPGA converter the results with a CRT are spectacular. The picture quality is just amazing. So first i got a LG Studioworks 552v. Decent monitor for my needs. I got it uses of course, i can't get new CRTs anywhere. So this monitor lasted one month before increased flickering and ending up with capacitors blowing up. I just ended up throwing it away.
Next i got a Samtron 55E, it lasted 2 days before ending up with pops and symptoms that resembled high voltagem arcing.
So the lastest i got another Samtron 76E, which has a blue tint, the VGA cable seems alright and yesterday it seemed to fix itself and whites were whites again. Today blue tint is back, and when cable VGA cable is disconnected a very horrible extremely high pitched whine started to appear.
I know that the fact i'm probably getting worn out CRT monitors is the culprit, but there's no way to get them new and no seller is going to be honest about how much use a monitor got. Or maybe i should go back to LCD's, or maybe i should get rid of everything and just use DOSBox or maybe we need a brand new type of monitor that handles VGA perfectly.
I just feel increasingly frustrated with this, and i just had to let it out.