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I feel old; I came here for a guide to repair a "VGA monitor" and instead got a flat panel.
by zbuf 5y ago
I feel old; I came here for a guide to repair a "VGA monitor" and instead got a flat panel.
- sysadmindotfail 5y agoI am old. I did not even open the link until you mentioned it was an LCD. I was thinking: "Why would you repair a CRT?"
- tyingq 5y agoComes up fairly often as a nostalgia thing for old Macs, Kaypros, Compaqs, arcade games, and so on.
- ectopod 5y agoAlso, some home computer games from the 80s can be really hard to play with any extra latency so a CRT helps.
- bityard 5y agoFor most of the last 15 years, if you had an old CRT television or computer monitor, you had actually to pay someone just to get rid of it. Because of the lead shielding used in CRT tubes, they are considered hazardous waste. (Of course, most people were irresponsible or just didn't know any better and just chucked theirs into a dumpster.) But in the past few years, retro tech has become sufficiently popular due to certain YouTube channels that a CRT TV or monitor in good working condition can now command a worthwhile price.
- tailspin2019 5y ago> I was thinking: "Why would you repair a CRT?" Same here. And I didn't think I was that old...
- deelowe 5y agoLots of older equipment require a CRT to function properly.
- nspattak 5y agoOr maybe if you want to play arcade games ;)
- caymanjim 5y agoIt's a VGA monitor. You may have expected a CRT rather than LCD, but that's a different confusion.
- zbuf 5y agoDon't worry, I'm not confused...
- p1mrx 5y agoLCD monitors only used VGA because customers didn't know enough to demand DVI. A pixel array is inherently digital, so it makes no sense to put DAC/ADC in the path.
- zbuf 5y ago> customers didn't know enough to demand DVI Really, it was more that we didn't have DVI outputs. Its the smartest way to break the chicken-egg situation -- for many (I'd wager the majority) the advantage of a flat panel at first was more about space saving then picture quality.
- p1mrx 5y agoDVI output was easy; just buy a video card. The problem is, you can't add DVI to a VGA-only LCD monitor, and those things were everywhere.