Windows XP Gaming Monitor Doesn't Disappoint 

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Wholesome

aw thats wholesome

Back when I was in computer sales, we sold tons of Viewsonic monitors. Because of that, we had a Viewsonic sales rep, and at some point the rep gave us a teddy bear of the Viewsonic birds. One day, a guy came into the store wanting to buy like 5 or 6 monitors, and I'm pretty sure it was this exact monitor that I convinced him to buy. But as I was closing the sale, the guy was adamant that the only way I was gonna close the sale was if he could get one of those teddy bear Viewsonic birds. So I called up our rep, to see if he could help me out to close this sale. He just chuckled, saying that was the first time someone had requested that to close the sale (usually it was always cheaper pricing he'd get called about). A short time later, our rep came in with the birds, and the sale was closed. People really did just seem to love those birds. People would buy a Viewsonic monitor over a Samsung or BenQ just so they could look at those birds on their monitor.

@@rustybobdotca Look man, those birds have a certian charm to them. I don't blame people for wanting the b i r d s.

So not sure about this one, but my copy is black and silver....

You'd be hard pressed to find a modern monitor worse than the ones from 2004.

@@Agret Maybe a projector, or a mobile device (that is also old)

I have a ThinkPad R52 with a yellowed backlight on its internal display, and when it began yellowing, it started from the outer edges and worked its way in over time. That could provide a clue as to what might have happened.

small tip you can convert the background lighting from CCFL to LED, kits are available cheap. on ebay. For monitors a bit complicated to convert, for laptops there are more expensive and special kits but there the exchange is much easier. I did this on my X200t with AFFS display and it was worth it, after that the display took on an X230t IPS panel and beat it in some points. The yellowing comes from aging CCFL fluorescent tubes.

Might be - CCFLs do fade to yellow. But - it might also be that you're used to LED backlighting which often has a very high color temperature for efficiency reasons. Your eyes get used to this - so a nominal 5500K CCFL backlight will look extremely yellow compared to a native, uncalibrated LED backlight that may be around 7500K colour temperature or even more.

@@laurens4359 You're right of course, but the CFFL were at their end, it was also noticed in the temperature development and visually also when removing clear signs of the CCFL itself. LEDs have the problem that they usually have a high blue component

its phosphor uv degradation, shifts warm

That reminds me of when I had a HP F1503 monitor that had a broken power button, I couldn't fix it at the time, so I instead just used Monoff (I was using Windows XP at the time) to stop the GPU from outputting through the VGA port until I moved the mouse.

Easy repair!

Yeah mine has something weird with the menu button iirc.

I had the VX724 or another one with the same chassis but the caps on mine called quits. I had to lower the brightness at least at medium setting and avoid at all costs any white screens or it would shut off. As long as those pixels didn't demand too much energy it would work fine.

The backlight failed on mine after 4 years.

"Yes I game on a Microsoft comfort keyboard how could you tell? 🗿"

The day that someone manages to make a mech version of a comfort 4000, I'll buy it instantly

Same! I have two!

don't IPS panels have really bad response times?

@@slimeprivilege In general, TN and VA panels go FAST. IPS panels look GOOD. There is a relatively new tech called "fast IPS" which claws back some of the speed loss to TN/VA. But if you want the fastest monitor its going to be TN/VA. VA differs from TN in a similar vein as fast IPS. Where fast IPS makes IPS faster, VA makes TN more color accurate by reorienting the pixels in a vertical, rather than horizontal, arrangement. This gives a MUCH improved color and viewing angle profile while retaining the speed. The Acer Predator X35 is an excellent example of VA tech in use. Excellent color accurate, fast, and good viewing angles. The X34 (its baby brother) is fast IPS. same color accuacy, better viewing angles, slightly slower. I have both and prefer the X35 (not just for the HDR additions either). If you are buying an LCD display in 2022, Fast IPS or VA are the way to go.

@@slimeprivilege IPS did get much better in response time in the last 5 years

@@RedHealerMatt I have a VA panel now. Came from cheap TN panels over the past 2 decades. This is the first time I've noticed terrible smearing on something that isn't a laptop. Hey it's fantastic if the contrast is an intense change due to overdrive, but dark to a little less dark is so damn smeary. I tolerate it because contrast ratio is more important to me, and OLED isn't cheap enough.

I have viewsonic xg2401 and 2402 TN panel for gaming and I love them

I thought overclocking was a common term for that function on monitors? Or is that only for refresh rate

I could have worded that part a bit better, I more meant making a gaming focused LCD monitor by trying to get the response time down as much as possible. That wasn't worth pursuing until the technology got better like you mentioned.

Do not fall for the CRT meme lol, cant wait to flip my 2070sbs to some retard who's willing to overpay. Late 2000s pro grade LCDs will eternally be superior to any CRT.

Holy nostalgia! I had the VX922 as well. It was a banger of an LCD back in the day.

Yeah DVI has not enough bandwitch for high refresh/high resolution ...these days it's HDMI 2.0 (2.1) or Displayport 2.1

This is a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k. The real thing about it is that it shoots in log RAW which allows me a tremendous amount of flexibility when color grading the video. I wouldn't be surprised if I spent as much time on the color for this video as I did the actual editing.

Also I don't think CRTs needed any "gaming" label to be good, they inherently have ultra-low response times, no motion blur etc. Basically by buying a CRT you were getting the best gaming monitor for all games, unlike LCDs which are crap unless you buy a modern gaming one.

EIZO CG210, and newer models S2100 and S2133. I have the first, and it's great. These models do pixel-perfect scaling from 800x600 to 1600x1200. For lower resolutions, 1600x1200 is so hi-res that they look sharp anyway. The S2100 has a TN panel, while the other two are IPS, and they have true 8-bpc color depth ("10-bit internal"). Just great monitors really.

@@djdjukic That's really helpful, thanks!! What does the CG210 do if you send it a signal above 60hz refresh rate? Can it overclock at all, or does it take the signal but stick to 60hz, or does it go blank and refuse to produce any picture?

​@@angieandretti So I did a bunch of tests and, long story short, it's not good for 70Hz. It syncs to just about everything but it frameskips or undersamples. Long version: Over DVI, it properly syncs up to 1600x1200@62, maybe even a bit higher, but definitely frameskips at 1600x1200@70Hz. In that same mode, over VGA, it does a funny kind of frame sampling, motion looks interlaced but with vertical lines instead of horizontal. It seemed to behave the same at other resolutions so I thought, let's try 640x400@70Hz, maybe that's a special case. I wasn't able to test that mode properly in Windows so I tried Pinball Dreams in DOS. Already on the credits scroll you can see a judder, especially compared to the silky smooth motion of a CRT. I wouldn't nearly call it unusable, but definitely not a perfect experience. So yeah, this monitor is good for late 90s 800x600 Windows 98 gaming, and some early 2000s titles at 1600x1200, but not so much for DOS games.