Non-CL ripoff of the day

[the_poochies]

I was walking past a rundown strip mall connected to a rundown supermarket in my town over the weekend when my eye caught this used monitor for sale:


I had to walk around the back of the monitor to make sure it wasn't an LCD.

IIRC, I bought the same giant CRT monitor for $500 in 2002.

[chopper]

Now they charge you $40 to recycle them.

[mikebw]

$100 for a brand new monitor like that would still not be a good deal.

[Doc]

mikebw wrote:
$100 for a brand new monitor like that would still not be a good deal.

...Unless you do print or broadcast work.

[mikebw]

Doc wrote:
[quote=mikebw]
$100 for a brand new monitor like that would still not be a good deal.

...Unless you do print or broadcast work.
Well, I actually DO broadcast work, and there haven't been CRT's here in many years now, at least not in the design and editing process.

But, I suppose (after looking up the model- http://www.beststuff.com/computers/views...nitor.html) it's not half bad.

[Doc]

mikebw wrote:
[quote=Doc]
[quote=mikebw]
$100 for a brand new monitor like that would still not be a good deal.

...Unless you do print or broadcast work.
Well, I actually DO broadcast work, and there haven't been CRT's here in many years now, at least not in the design and editing process.
Ask a broadcast engineer what he thinks of that.

[mikebw]

Doc wrote:
[quote=mikebw]
[quote=Doc]
[quote=mikebw]
$100 for a brand new monitor like that would still not be a good deal.

...Unless you do print or broadcast work.
Well, I actually DO broadcast work, and there haven't been CRT's here in many years now, at least not in the design and editing process.
Ask a broadcast engineer what he thinks of that.
Well the "real" engineers still use the multi-thousand dollar CRT's to monitor incoming feeds, but once video gets here it doesn't get much attention. Of course things are supposed to get another look on their way out the door too. I'm certainly not discounting that CRT's are better for precision monitoring of colors.

[Octave Doctor]

I have the same thing in a 22" model, but I only paid $5.00 at the Salvation Army--looks pretty good until you put an LCD next to it and step back a few feet.

[RAMd®d]

...until you put an LCD next to it and step back a few feet.

If that's one's normal viewing distance, that would make a difference.

If one wanted to change the resolution on both monitors, the difference probably wouldn't be apparent from a few feet, but the CRT would look better at a working distance.

Still, even if that Viewsonic were new or like new, $100 does seem a little pricey. I'd offer $50.