Goodbye good friend

Post by **bio** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:08 pm

Today is a dark day indeed.

The lease expired on my Trinitron 21" monitor here at work and they're not gonna get me another one. In the name of cost cutting, the biggest CRT they have is 18". I opted for the 17" IBM Thinkvision L170P lcd monitor (it has a larger viewable area than the 18" CRT).

The new one just showed up and my trinitron took that long walk down to asset management.

A moment of silence please.

The new one takes up only the smallest footprint on my desk (as compared to the mamoth trinitron). That, of course, is it's only redeeming value.

It's got blurry columns. I've adjusted the clock and phase settings but that just seems to shift the areas of blur around on the monotor. The higher the clock, the more to the right the columns move. Lower the clock and they move to the left. I played with the phase but it doesn't seem to do much of anything.

*sigh*

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:18 pm

pity you could not buy that back....

>sighs for bio<

Post by **bio** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:23 pm

Well... I could have, but it was starting to get a little funky.

On a more positive note... after beating the new one with a stick (viciously and repeatedly), I have removed the offending blur (or at least most of it).

Post by **bio** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:18 pm

Heh... one last thing...

Apparently, while my laptop doesn't have a DVI output... my docking station does! So... following rocketdork's lead, I went down to facilities and got a DVI cable.

OMG... what a difference!!!!

Everything is perfectly sharp now... and the colors are way better (the red doesn't bleed any more).

<insert my happy dance here>

Rocketdork · Post by **Rocketdork** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:08 pm

bio wrote:<insert my happy dance here>

I hope you didn't perform the airplane dance at work, if that is what your happy dance is!

Isn't it amazing what can happen when you get rid of that damn digital to analog and then analog to digital conversion? I have never really understood why they did that in the first place. Market conditions I suppose.

Pigman · Post by **Pigman** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:37 am

I just snuck down to A.M. and confirmed your old monitor was indeed a lease return... I was hoping that they could just return ANY old monitor and allow you to keep your old one. ... No way ...

Going digital was the way to go.. sounds like you are ok...

Post by **bio** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:06 pm

One of the other people in my group, Jeff, had the same monitor and his lease ended today.

There's not a damn thing wrong with his, so I did the buy out on it... $189 (it's $800 new).

Oh yeah... that's going home with me tonight, and I will love it and hug it and squeeze it and love it and hug it and.....

Post by **miftah** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:42 pm

...watch it go tits-up the second you get it home.

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 7:14 pm

ROFL for timing, but I hope that sucker lasts a tidy few years!

Shucks, Bio's gonna build a sweet gaming rig, piece by piece.

Post by **bio** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:23 pm

miftah wrote:...watch it go tits-up the second you get it home.

That would pretty much suck ass... and be right on par for the course.

Post by **bio** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:42 am

double post! w00t!!

Heh... I just spit a huge mouth full of lattÃ© all over my shiny new LCD.

Special thanks to rocketdork for providing the kemwipes and cleaner