Unboxing a New Old Stock 17- CRT Monitor from NEC
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Wobble2007
A brand spanking new NEC eh, very nice indeed, that screen looks so vibrant with incredible colours and blacks that even a 10 thousand pounds pro LCD or OLED BVM can't get remotely close to, not to mention CRTs incredible motion clarity and image depth, zero response times and so on, it's as if they were made to spec for gaming tbh. I've got a new in the box Sony 21- E530 which as you can imagine is rare as rocking horse s---, it's incredible, even my Dad's 4K 120Hz OLED can't match its incredible image quality, Control - 1920x1440p 100Hz with everything maxed out and RTX on is just completely jaw dropping and so satisfying to play, it's just a feast for the eyes that can only be experienced in person. If I could buy every gamer out there a decent CRT monitor I would, sadly they are becoming more rare by the day and soon will be a very expensive luxury only the wealthiest can enjoy, so I urge anyone out there to get the CRT mon (as well as a good backup) they are after asap. It's been 15-20 years now since CRT was mass-produced, and we still don't have a successor for CRT display tech, and it's looking like another 10-15 years until we have something that can either match it or surpass it finally, that is if LPD (Laser Phosphor Display) is mainstream and wilt available by then, we will finally have 32- plus CRT tier displays.
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A brand spanking new NEC eh, very nice indeed, that screen looks so vibrant with incredible colours and blacks that even a 10 thousand pounds pro LCD or OLED BVM can't get remotely close to, not to mention CRTs incredible motion clarity and image depth, zero response times and so on, it's as if they were made to spec for gaming tbh. I've got a new in the box Sony 21- E530 which as you can imagine is rare as rocking horse s---, it's incredible, even my Dad's 4K 120Hz OLED can't match its incredible image quality, Control - 1920x1440p 100Hz with everything maxed out and RTX on is just completely jaw dropping and so satisfying to play, it's just a feast for the eyes that can only be experienced in person. If I could buy every gamer out there a decent CRT monitor I would, sadly they are becoming more rare by the day and soon will be a very expensive luxury only the wealthiest can enjoy, so I urge anyone out there to get the CRT mon (as well as a good backup) they are after asap. It's been 15-20 years now since CRT was mass-produced, and we still don't have a successor for CRT display tech, and it's looking like another 10-15 years until we have something that can either match it or surpass it finally, that is if LPD (Laser Phosphor Display) is mainstream and wilt available by then, we will finally have 32- plus CRT tier displays.
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dane961
I bought a similar monitor back in the 90s. It was my first step up from a 15-. It showed up, I unboxed it and hooked it up excitedly! As soon as I turned it on, I had a black vertical line on the screen. I was SO pissed! I called NEC and asked them how I was going to send this behemoth back. They told me to turn the brightness up all the way and then smack the side of the monitor! I asked myself, are they for real? I went ahead and smacked the side of the monitor and the black line went away! Worked great until the day I donated it to the Salvation Army.
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I bought a similar monitor back in the 90s. It was my first step up from a 15-. It showed up, I unboxed it and hooked it up excitedly! As soon as I turned it on, I had a black vertical line on the screen. I was SO pissed! I called NEC and asked them how I was going to send this behemoth back. They told me to turn the brightness up all the way and then smack the side of the monitor! I asked myself, are they for real? I went ahead and smacked the side of the monitor and the black line went away! Worked great until the day I donated it to the Salvation Army.
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Nathaniel
I can't remember if I've actually used a CRT since I got rid of my last one in 2009 before a move across the country. I used to have a pair of 20- 1600x1200 CRTs, can't remember the brand. The thing I miss about them is that variable resolution content looked great. Running LCDs at anything but their native resolution or an integer fraction of their resolution looks horrendous. I could run my desktop at 1600x1200, but my GPU was not in any way capable of playing games at that resolution. Usually I'd be playing at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 or something.
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I can't remember if I've actually used a CRT since I got rid of my last one in 2009 before a move across the country. I used to have a pair of 20- 1600x1200 CRTs, can't remember the brand. The thing I miss about them is that variable resolution content looked great. Running LCDs at anything but their native resolution or an integer fraction of their resolution looks horrendous. I could run my desktop at 1600x1200, but my GPU was not in any way capable of playing games at that resolution. Usually I'd be playing at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 or something.
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Erik
My uncle had the 21- version of this display, it was the biggest computer monitor I had ever seen and retained that crown for ages. I think it took until the 22- widescreen LCD era for something with a larger usable picture area to show up.
That CRT still had a higher usable resolution too if you were willing to put up with 60 Hz flickering, but I abandoned CRTs ASAP and picked up a display model NEC MultiSync LCD1760V in 2003 for $750. Haven't looked back, the flickering still drives me insane.
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My uncle had the 21- version of this display, it was the biggest computer monitor I had ever seen and retained that crown for ages. I think it took until the 22- widescreen LCD era for something with a larger usable picture area to show up.
That CRT still had a higher usable resolution too if you were willing to put up with 60 Hz flickering, but I abandoned CRTs ASAP and picked up a display model NEC MultiSync LCD1760V in 2003 for $750. Haven't looked back, the flickering still drives me insane.
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GoblinPhreak
When I was young we used to have this computer fair here at our local racetrack (maryland state fair) and I remember my dad taking my brother and I, waiting in line, and seeing all the new technology that we had no clue about. I remember 3d headsets like today's VR and they had star wars pod racing (was a new game then so 1999) and I tried it out. And this was WAY BACK when. And when VR made its resurgence in recent years i was like -WE HAD THIS SHIT A LONG TIME AGO ITS NOT NEW- rofl
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When I was young we used to have this computer fair here at our local racetrack (maryland state fair) and I remember my dad taking my brother and I, waiting in line, and seeing all the new technology that we had no clue about. I remember 3d headsets like today's VR and they had star wars pod racing (was a new game then so 1999) and I tried it out. And this was WAY BACK when. And when VR made its resurgence in recent years i was like -WE HAD THIS SHIT A LONG TIME AGO ITS NOT NEW- rofl
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Chad
That's very cool that you go to vintage computer festivals. Its important people remember what computers were like 20 years ago, for those who are late teenagers now they grew up with iphones. Its amazing how far things have come along over the last 20 years, just think iphones are now coming up on 15 years now, kids have no idea what it was like back then so that's pretty awesome. Its our youth that remembers these time so thank you for bringing back all these memories.
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That's very cool that you go to vintage computer festivals. Its important people remember what computers were like 20 years ago, for those who are late teenagers now they grew up with iphones. Its amazing how far things have come along over the last 20 years, just think iphones are now coming up on 15 years now, kids have no idea what it was like back then so that's pretty awesome. Its our youth that remembers these time so thank you for bringing back all these memories.
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December
it's so weird how things just phase in and out of reality. Like the fact that that thing was produced into 2004 is impressive. But now no one will ever manufacture those again. The manufacturer just clinged to the model as long as it was profitable, then converted the factory over to more modern tech and they could never manage to mass produce those again unless the whole world regressed, which it won't.
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it's so weird how things just phase in and out of reality. Like the fact that that thing was produced into 2004 is impressive. But now no one will ever manufacture those again. The manufacturer just clinged to the model as long as it was profitable, then converted the factory over to more modern tech and they could never manage to mass produce those again unless the whole world regressed, which it won't.
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Kameron
I recently got a 1440p crt on ebay (samsung syncmaster 957mb. The seller didn't box the crt correctly so some of its case ended up bulging out of it somewhat. Luckily it was an easy fix and outside of that it worked perfectly fine, but at the same time something like that should never happen. People really don't know how to ship these things correctly nowadays which is such a damn shame.
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I recently got a 1440p crt on ebay (samsung syncmaster 957mb. The seller didn't box the crt correctly so some of its case ended up bulging out of it somewhat. Luckily it was an easy fix and outside of that it worked perfectly fine, but at the same time something like that should never happen. People really don't know how to ship these things correctly nowadays which is such a damn shame.
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Muse
I've had a crt monitor far into the 2000's in that regard, they arn't that old, in the television world it is quite different, ive had a flatscreen hd ready since 2001 or so. The pc world really took of when rgb got introduces, i mean for the broad audience. The pc modding community was always a thing even before the 2010's
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I've had a crt monitor far into the 2000's in that regard, they arn't that old, in the television world it is quite different, ive had a flatscreen hd ready since 2001 or so. The pc world really took of when rgb got introduces, i mean for the broad audience. The pc modding community was always a thing even before the 2010's
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BlackIce504
back when they had CRT's I was running a Hitachi 21-. it supported 160hz at 800x600 and 1024x768-140hz i got two of them at a clean up we did for an office wow how clear plus for the time it was FLAT i am sure they paid a huge price for them and here is me lucky enough to get two of them. -yes i still have them-
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back when they had CRT's I was running a Hitachi 21-. it supported 160hz at 800x600 and 1024x768-140hz i got two of them at a clean up we did for an office wow how clear plus for the time it was FLAT i am sure they paid a huge price for them and here is me lucky enough to get two of them. -yes i still have them-
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