I’ve never had this happen before. In fact, the monitor that died is the second oldest LCD (or “flat screen”) monitor I own. Er, owned.
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\nBack in 1999 or so, I bought my first LCD monitor. I still have it! It’s a 1024-by-720 resolution monitor, 11-inches (I think), very heavy, and it works. The resolution is why I don’t use it; the resolution is just too low for it to be practical any more. But it was cool to have that monitor back when all you would normally see are clunky old CRT (glass) monitors.<\/p>\n
The second LCD monitor I bought was a Mitsubishi 19-inch model. It’s the one that died.<\/p>\n
The Mitsubishi has been my writing computer’s monitor since 2000 or maybe even before. It’s been a workhorse.<\/p>\n
The other day, I noticed that the command prompt menu looked kind of fuzzy. Upon closer examination, I saw that the pixels had all grown shadows. The monitor was dying.<\/p>\n
I could continue to use the thing, of course, but my eyeballs would frazzle. So I did a monitor swap.<\/p>\n
My test computer, like my writing computer, had two monitors. So I got rid of the Mitsubishi and pulled one of the monitors from the testing computer. My writing computer is now square, set up as it was before with two monitors. (I keep the outline on one monitor and the chapter documents on another.)<\/p>\n
The test computer now has a new Acer 24-inch monitor, one of those widescreens that everyone else seems to have these days. It’s a nice monitor, very thin, and extremely bright.<\/p>\n
One of the reasons I chose the Acer is that it had multiple inputs: HDMI, DVI, and VGA.<\/p>\n
I was surprised at how many of the widescreen LCD monitors had VGA-only input. That’s shocking. Today almost all the video cards are DVI.<\/p>\n
The HDMI input also intrigued me as my mobile devices have HDMI output. So now I can hook up my phone to the monitor and watch a rented movie at glorious 1080 resolution.<\/p>\n
By the way, the third oldest LCD monitor I own is the original Apple Cinema Display. I think I paid over $2,000 for that way back in 2000 or so. (By contrast, the Acer I just bought was $190.) The Cinema Display still works, but it lacks a home.<\/p>\n
I’m amazed at how long-lived these LCD monitors are. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, it was routine to replace a CRT monitor every five years or so. They just burned out. That’s a much rarer occurrence with the LCD monitors today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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