On 4/28/2018 14:50, P. J. Alling wrote:
This morning I turned on my desktop computer and discovered that my DELL 24"
cinematic display had become non compos mentis. I assume that there's a fault
in it's poor little logic board since everything seems to work but nothing seems
to work together. I'm now forced to fall back on my current backup which is a
19" LCD in 4:3 aspect ratio that was old when I acquired it a couple of years
ago. It's only saving grace is that it seems to be made out of titanium
compared to the now probably defunct 24" unit, it's beyond rational repair,
which hurts my Yankee soul, I could probably buy a nice upgrade for the cost of
repair parts, if they were available, let alone having a competent tech actually
install said parts.
I suppose I could use this as an excuse to try to get the NEC repaired, even
today nothing could beat it's color depth, but the guy I know who still repairs
CRT's gave me this thing because he didn't have time to work on it when it's
power circuits flaked out, said to remind him to look at it, the NEC, in a
couple of years when he might have more time.
At least you know someone who still works on CRT monitors ... or at least
someone who worked on them 2 years ago.
I did once get the LCD on a laptop repaired, but it was only something like the
starter on a fluorescent tube that had burned out. I doubt I could get it
repaired today. LED monitors appear to be a throw-away item. It's a shame.
OTOH, it looks like 4K monitors have come down in price a whole lot, which might
ease the pain a little bit.
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