Hi

As I mentioned in my last deviation, my old monitor is dead. It was a good over 10 years old philips 107B (or E?, hell knows after 12 years. It was the shortened smaller 17" version). It was working perfectly over the years. Some wear was noticeable on the colors, but it could be corrected with some video driver setup. 2 weaks ago I switched it on, it came to life alright, but when I went out for some drink while waiting for the booting it went cold black.
Now I'm using a philips 170S lcd-tft monitor, wich I borrowed from my father's office. It has some strange color presets. There is the "normal brightness with yellow instead of white", or there is "blue laser mode" wich burns out your eyes and has a color like an rgb picture with R and G disabled. SO its very very over-blue. There is a "custom color scheme" option where the user can set the RGB channels , so in theory it is possible to set it tocolor correct mode. Too bad it will never ever be done on a tft due to the way it works. Another bad thing about tfts for me is that it burns my eyes out, no matter how I set brightness and contrast. My eyes are just too sensitive for such brutal lighting.
This is also caused by the way tft-s project the image. The easiest way to imagine it, is to think of all the pixels as flaslight with different colors and brightness. If a pixel is a bright color, the flaslight is turned on and set to high brightness, if the color is dark or black, then it is turned to low brighness or even off. A tft cannot project dark colors, because dark to a tft means no light, and no light means we cant see it. old big CRT monitors allways project every color with the same "brightness", because the color of the pixel is only affected by the wavelenght of the light emitted. of course blue will always be brighter on any monitor then a dark-red, but you will only see it correctly displayed on a good old crt.

So, the conclusion, I need a good crt, 17-19". Any suggestions?