I remember when we had lan parties back in the day and one of my friends who was an intern in a it firm could take one of their super nice monitors home. It was just as deep as a normal monitor and 19 inches i think, but it was somehow special or better because the screen itself wasn’t curved, it was straight. That thing was so heavy it almost broke my desk that i offered him. It was a two man operation to move that thing. i mean more of a two boy operation, it was still heavy as fuck.
Sounds like a Sony Trinitron to me. I had a 17" one for about a decade and it was equally magnificent and heavy. The largest one was 24" 16:10 widescreen.
I wanted one so badly, but while these were finally somewhat affordable in 2010 (and still vastly superior to any flat-screen monitor), the shipping costs would have been ruinous.
God, I hated Trinitrons. We had them at work and while they had noticeably sharper images, my brain never could filter out the two horizontal wires that stabilized the grill.
So in what way were they better? Back in the day, even he didn’t know, the only answer i got from him was that tge screen was flat. I didn’t really bother anymore because that was also the year people started showing up with flatscreens.
Sharper and brighter images for a while. The aperture grille design allowed more light through than the shadow masks for a while until shadow mask manufacturing quality caught up in the late '80s. The flat screen offered a simpler geometry that allowed for sharper images until the old school CRT manufacturing caught up in the mid '90s. By the early '00s, there were really no advantages and they were riding on name recognition as a superior brand until the late 00’s when LCDs finally overcame their size and price hurdles.
I worked in tech since about 2000. I was super evangelical about lcd’s. Wanted to get rid of our crts asap. Unfortunately the ones we kept the longest were huge ones that had geat specs.
I was doing an intern term as IT support for a school in 2006 and I had to change all the screens they use, as they upgraded gear while the students had a holiday.
I had to lug these 21" or were they even 23" CRT’s.
MASSIVE.
Still hurts my back to think about it. Dozens and dozens off those things ufffff. I too gave a few to some friends who wanted them as they got donated somewhere so
Luckily the replacements were TFT’s. Even though they weighed like 5x what similar flat screens weigh nowaday.
LANs were an entirely different business when monitors took so much space
My wife had a flat screen TV that was like 40" across when I met her. When we moved in together it took 3 people almost an hour to get that thing down the stairs. It must have weighed 400 pounds. We used nylon webbing straps on our forearms to loop under the TV and provide some support, and it left deep, red marks on our arms for over a week. Those fucking things must have been filled with lead.
Not just big and heavy. Old monitors were deep. Corners were a great place to dump all that wasted depth.
I remember when we had lan parties back in the day and one of my friends who was an intern in a it firm could take one of their super nice monitors home. It was just as deep as a normal monitor and 19 inches i think, but it was somehow special or better because the screen itself wasn’t curved, it was straight. That thing was so heavy it almost broke my desk that i offered him. It was a two man operation to move that thing. i mean more of a two boy operation, it was still heavy as fuck.
Sounds like a Sony Trinitron to me. I had a 17" one for about a decade and it was equally magnificent and heavy. The largest one was 24" 16:10 widescreen.
https://aperturegrille.fandom.com/wiki/SONY_GDM-FW900
I wanted one so badly, but while these were finally somewhat affordable in 2010 (and still vastly superior to any flat-screen monitor), the shipping costs would have been ruinous.
I had a 21” trinitron at uni in the 00s— it was beautiful, ran 2048x1536, and weighed a ton.
God, I hated Trinitrons. We had them at work and while they had noticeably sharper images, my brain never could filter out the two horizontal wires that stabilized the grill.
But degauss made everything wobble for a few moments.
i would still want one of those monitors, but the few i’ve seen are ridiculously priced.
So in what way were they better? Back in the day, even he didn’t know, the only answer i got from him was that tge screen was flat. I didn’t really bother anymore because that was also the year people started showing up with flatscreens.
Sharper and brighter images for a while. The aperture grille design allowed more light through than the shadow masks for a while until shadow mask manufacturing quality caught up in the late '80s. The flat screen offered a simpler geometry that allowed for sharper images until the old school CRT manufacturing caught up in the mid '90s. By the early '00s, there were really no advantages and they were riding on name recognition as a superior brand until the late 00’s when LCDs finally overcame their size and price hurdles.
… But as soon as someone showed you The Line, you could no longer NOT see it, which meant you had to sell it.
I worked in tech since about 2000. I was super evangelical about lcd’s. Wanted to get rid of our crts asap. Unfortunately the ones we kept the longest were huge ones that had geat specs.
I was doing an intern term as IT support for a school in 2006 and I had to change all the screens they use, as they upgraded gear while the students had a holiday.
I had to lug these 21" or were they even 23" CRT’s.
MASSIVE.
Still hurts my back to think about it. Dozens and dozens off those things ufffff. I too gave a few to some friends who wanted them as they got donated somewhere so
Luckily the replacements were TFT’s. Even though they weighed like 5x what similar flat screens weigh nowaday.
LANs were an entirely different business when monitors took so much space
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My wife had a flat screen TV that was like 40" across when I met her. When we moved in together it took 3 people almost an hour to get that thing down the stairs. It must have weighed 400 pounds. We used nylon webbing straps on our forearms to loop under the TV and provide some support, and it left deep, red marks on our arms for over a week. Those fucking things must have been filled with lead.
Now they’re shallow and wide. Exactly the opposite of what this provides.
Except for those who keep using postage stamp laptop screen like in the picture, I suppose.