LCDs not lasting as long as CRTs and being less stable is news to me.
Since LCD displays were not available when I started my career in field
service for a major computer company in 1966 my experience is only the
last 12 years or so. We used LCD displays for consoles on the
mainframes and later on the Unix systems and I saw may on desks. I
don't remember replacing more than one or two.
CRTs, as any vacuum tube, age as time goes on so if you're buying a used
CRT display what kind of life and stability are you expecting or being
guaranteed?
BTW, the cheap caps are not limited to LCD displays. They're
everywhere, displays and motherboards alike.
Bob
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I am going through the same issue except in reverse. My gatewat @@" $700 LCD monitor died and needs repair. This is after 3 years. Gateway will not touch it!! It was made with cheap internal caps and the "50,000" is crap too!!
The LCD's do offer great features but do not last as long as the CRT nor are they as stable. My repair will cost up 200 and that is very close to what you can get a 20" for now. So I am seriously considering a rebuilt CRT now. Yes it is more power, less space heavy as hell. But there are good channces that it will last at least 5 more years over two LCD's...
Just something to consider from the other side... Oh with all the electronics retaillers going under is that extended warr. going to be worth the paper it is printed on?
Just my 000002.centavos worth
Les
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