[FreeQuark]

I like the 22" Cinema Display for its size and brightness, as well as the fact that it has ADC/USB connectors. OTOH, it responds too slowly for animation or games and most of the ones I've seen have had dead pixels. (I don't know if I want to pay $3000 for a monitor with dead pixels.) Unfortunately, Apple currently doesn't produce a large-screen 19" or 21" CRT, which means that any CRT I get wouldn't match my G4 minitower and wouldn't have an ADC connector. I can't figure out what to do. Should I wait for Apple to come out with another large-screen CRT? Should I wait for improvements in LCD technology? Or should I just buy a Sony or Mitusbishi CRT? I currently have a 17" clear Studio Display, but it is simply too small for my work. I am leaning towards getting a 3rd party monitor, but I would hate to pluck down $1000 or more only to have Apple come out with a 21" display in July.

[AirSluf]

I just got a cinema display, just a single dead pixel, that I only notice on a completely black screen, better than my walstreet that has 2 andfewer than half as many pixels to start out with . The response time has been fine for the gaming I do, although not Quake/Unreal, Oni is Gorgeous and Fast. Haven't seen any DVD artifacts either, the fast paced opening of Toy Story 2 is a great check for that.

I don't think it likely Apple will put a 21" monitor on ADC. It only carries the 28vDC needed for LCD displays, CRT's are large scale power hogs.

Unless you go for the widescreen Sony, you won't have as much screen real estate horizontally either. I find that to be a huge +.

[schalliol]

Get two GDM-F500 Trinitrons from Sony. Why is everyone crazy about LCDs, they're super expensive and are not capable of displaying the same color spectrum that CRTs can (take a look at the colorsync calibrator if you don't believe me). You'll have plenty left over and more room too.

Has anyone looked at sgi's 1600SW? < www.sgi.com/flatpanel/superwide_savvy.html>. Same on screen pixel count with tighter pixel pitch. With the multilink adapter, none of the analog inputs are lost as they are on the Cinema Display. Oh, and currently for about 1/2 the price.

I looked at this thing so that I could still input analog to the screen.

So, my question is, if using the Cube with a Cinema Display, how can one input external analog signals (S-Video, composite, component) and get them displayed on the screen?

Originally posted by schalliol:
Get two GDM-F500 Trinitrons from Sony. Why is everyone crazy about LCDs, they're super expensive and are not capable of displaying the same color spectrum that CRTs can (take a look at the colorsync calibrator if you don't believe me). You'll have plenty left over and more room too.

LCD's:
1) take up alot less space
2) put a baby mouse in front of 2 crt's for 1 year 8hours/day and put another one front of a LCD for the same time. you can have my medical degree if your CRT mouse grows up to be normal and lives as long as my LCD one..
3) if you can afford it then why not?
4) most *normal* users will trade-off the decrease in color quality for the benefits listed above. those that *need* color reproduction paychecks probably depend on it and they probably don't need to ask.
5) through the life of the LCD and CRT, the LCD will probably pay for the difference in electricity.

If the objective reasons don't make you think then a subjective one will:

1) it just looks cool!
2) chicks dig it (this is verifiable)

-(dr.) raman