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LAN Party Forums => The Swap Meet => Started by: sully! on September 14, 2008, 11:05:36 PM

Title: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: sully! on September 14, 2008, 11:05:36 PM

It's a Viewsonic 19" P95f Professional Series.

http://www.viewsonic.com/support/desktopdisplays/crtmonitors/proseries/p95f/

Looking for $50 OBO. I'd use it as a secondary display myself, but I just don't have the space on my desk. I can bring to the LAN this weekend if you'd like to partake in some CRT goodness as a secondary monitor or otherwise. I think I paid $450 back in the day when it was new. It's been all color calibrated and everything with the color calibration software that Viewsonic provides, but I lost that ages ago, so I won't be able to include that.

If no one here wants it, I guess I'll put it up for sale elsewhere. Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: decepticon on September 15, 2008, 10:06:07 AM

Out of curiosity, why is it so expensive new?  Aren't CRT's getting kind of phased out?

Title: Re: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: sully! on September 15, 2008, 10:57:00 AM

Like I said, "Back in the day...". I think I got this in 2001 or 2002 when CRT's were still prevalent and LCD's sucked for gaming and graphics work. It is also, as reflected in the model name, a professional series monitor because of its high resolution support (Up to 1920x1440@77Hz, so no flicker even at high res) and high level of color accuracy. This thing actually has BNC inputs for red green and blue (as well as standard VGA of course)! I don't know why I ever thought I was going to use them because I never did and only ever used the VGA connection.

Title: Re: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: decepticon on September 15, 2008, 02:23:44 PM

I saw it being sold currently for around $300.  I am guessing it is in high(er) demand for video editing or whatnot.

Title: Re: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: sully! on September 15, 2008, 05:48:31 PM

Quote from: decepticon on September 15, 2008, 02:23:44 PM

I saw it being sold currently for around $300.

Ahhh. I didn't realize it was going for that much new (still).

Title: Re: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: -Sp()()ge- on September 15, 2008, 08:19:38 PM

Sully,

Think it would work well for the display panel in Flight Simulator X? 

Title: Re: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: -Sp()()ge- on September 15, 2008, 08:25:52 PM

and just to be stupid, what is the width of the monitor?  I'm measuring out the size on my desk right now.

Title: Re: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: sully! on September 17, 2008, 09:46:47 PM

My handy dandy tape measure says just under 18" wide, though the dimensions mentioned in the link of my first post say 18.5".

Title: Re: For Sale: 19" CRT Monitor
Post by: sully! on September 19, 2008, 02:00:10 PM

Any takers? I'll be packing up in about an hour.