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Re: LCD's suck

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From: goPostal
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:38
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"ยงฤร—darts" <sixdartsREMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On  8-Jun-2009, "goPostal" <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I'd love
>> to find a stash of good crt monitors cause I swear I'd buy them all.
>
> Well, any time you find yourself in my neck of the woods, there are maybe
> ten or a dozen in my storage shed.  I'm too cheap to give the dump the $6
> fee they get for TVs and monitors.
>
> I will admit it is difficult to calibrate an LCD (especially TN panels) to
> give accurate color representation, but I'd never want to give up this 22"
> widescreen I'm sitting at now.

I'm with you on the real estate issue. Mapping with a 1440X900 is so nice, I 
have room for all the viewports. For just pure fragging though, I do like 
the CRT's. They are not as "cartoony" as LCD.

You ever clean out your shed, I'm bringing a truck :) 
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