Friday, September 28, 2012
On the CRT monitor
Viewing on an old crt monitor with terrible contrast but otherwise quite clear. My three year old LCD started going blank screen after one second. I'd push the monitor on button, screen would show for one second. Also, the monitor menu wasn't showing when I hit that button. With no monitor, obviously I couldn't even check the monitor. I figured if the PC had somehow set the monitor to go to sleep after one second, it would do it to any monitor, The old PC's crt works fine.
The malfunctioning LCD's screen was a little smaller than I should have ordered, & the HDMI input was pointless. Cost comes to about $45 per year of use, or $3.75 per month. That's why I didn't purchase an extended warranty. If the thing fritzes three years down the road (which it did), I'm not wasting weeks sending it to an "authorized" repair location; I'll just buy another one. So I ordered a new slightly larger monitor. Didn't even give it much thought. Went to CompUSA, quickly narrowed down choices by price, size & consumer reviews, crossed my fingers & picked one. Meanwhile, use the indestructible crt.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
The malfunctioning LCD's screen was a little smaller than I should have ordered, & the HDMI input was pointless. Cost comes to about $45 per year of use, or $3.75 per month. That's why I didn't purchase an extended warranty. If the thing fritzes three years down the road (which it did), I'm not wasting weeks sending it to an "authorized" repair location; I'll just buy another one. So I ordered a new slightly larger monitor. Didn't even give it much thought. Went to CompUSA, quickly narrowed down choices by price, size & consumer reviews, crossed my fingers & picked one. Meanwhile, use the indestructible crt.
