Cathode Ray Tubes are the Devil’s Work
17th October 2005 by
Seriously, they’re completely awful. I’m sitting here trying to code a relatively trivial application and having to use a CRT for the first time in months, because it’s either that or have the code window open on the laptop screen and only be able to see the left half of about four lines, and it’s an utterly miserable experience even compared with the last four days of coughing and stinking headaches with a cold.
How I ever learnt to program looking at screens like, no, significantly worse than this, I don’t know. The colour’s crap, it’s fuzzy and the whole thing bulges out at me like a fish–eye lens. Plus, I had to move my desk like a foot away from the wall just to accommodate the bastard.
Three cheers for George Heilmeier and his team of LCD inventors, I say.
Really? Maybe you should get a better CRT. I love my CRT and can’t stand lcd et al. Of course the major benefit with CRT’s now is I can pick up a huge one for cheap - but this 17″ is fine for me.
I can’t bear to use my laptop’s screen and am disgusted by my friends 42″ LCD tv. Plus every other LCD I’ve ever come across.
Either both of us are looking at the worst of what are (again both) fantastic technologies or its just personal pref.
I’m with you on the size aspect mind. I wish my CRT was less… erm… deep.
19th December 2005 at 11:10 pm by brob
oh btw I appear to be the only commentor, I found you as your the top fan of Envelopes on Last.fm and I love Envelopes ever since I saw them supporting Clor.
19th December 2005 at 11:11 pm by brob