Monitor dying
 

My 21" Trinitron monitor is finally on it's way out, the picture keeps flickering as if the power is fluctuating, so, being as it's not pay day and I have to type this on my laptop, I'm looking for a cheap 19-21" flat screen CRT, I saw a 19" Hyundai for £165 on Overclockers, anyone else have any suggestions?

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Ebuyer?

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Hi Bifta,
Is this any good, this is a cracking price! Monitor is pretty good as well, my mate has brought one. £111!!!
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Product...58&GroupID=439

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I've recently been looking at 21" monitors on ebay where they are very cheap (from about £20) but expect to pay £25 for carriage (maybe more to norn iron) unless you're lucky and can collect.

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Thanks for your help.

I spoke to Sony just now, apparently if I set the color balance to white, open something with a pure white screen, leave it on (power saving/screen saver disabled) then slap the bottom of the monitor a few times it might fix it, if not I'll search ebay, if I don't get any joy there I'll try microdirect.

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I have the 19" Hyundai and it looks a lot better in real life than on some webpage:
http://www.richardm.co.uk/images/pho...%20(Small).JPG

http://www.richardm.co.uk/images/pho...%20(Small).JPG

It's quite nice but you get what you pay for and it gets slightly out of focus towards the top and bottom of the screen where your web browser URLs would be.
The dot pitch is crap too.

If you can afford it then go for the Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 19", I wish I had now.

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Bit of a relief, the info. Sony gave me seems to have done the trick, it's stopped flickering completely now :D Thanks again for all your help

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I'm going to add that trick to my list of possible monitor fixes :)

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Apparently it's only a fix for trinitrons/other aperture grill monitors, it starts flickering if one of the wires is touching another.

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As it happens I DO have an old 19inch aperture grill monitor (on the left here - it's an old Hewlett packard/sony one) - but apart from letting out a massive crack noise about once a month it seems to keep going :) still if i ever have the same symptoms as you have - i'll be able to try something else.

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Is that thing in the bottom right corner of the tft screen what I think it is? ;)

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Depends what you think it is :)

Do you mean :-

a) the recycle bin
b) asia carrera's leg

;)

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I meant a fine looking Lady's leg :)

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That would be a 'b' then...

I can't - unfortunately - link to - or post a copy of the picture as she has nothing at all on ;)

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I had a quick google, but I think I will not try any of those links while at work :erm: :D