<story><title>John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-inch-169-1080p-monitor-in-1995-20110920/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>Sony FW900, last, best CRT ever made (that was affordable).&lt;p&gt;23 inch 16:10 CRT, 1920x1200 - weighs nearly 100 pounds and draws 150 watts if I remember correctly.&lt;p&gt;Originally like $2000, down to $300 at the end (refurbished).&lt;p&gt;Had variable phosphorus pitch, denser at the corners and an internal cpu adjusted the corners to correct for (earth?) magnetic field.&lt;p&gt;Only went to LCD when mine finally died and there was no one who could repair it and getting another was out of the question because shipping prices have gone through the roof.&lt;p&gt;There is a huge fan thread on them in [H]ardForum with lots of photos.&lt;p&gt;The colors on them are unbelievable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>watmough</author><text>Absolutely my favorite resolution, and is what&apos;s currently setup on my HP ZR24w, as well as deliberately defocussed a couple of notches to fuzz the text up a bit.&lt;p&gt;In comparison to the $2000 and $10000 crts, this is a great monitor with an ips panel, a standard sRGB color-gamut, and a cheap for an ips panel price of about $380 right now.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I&apos;m happy to be programming now, though 6 years ago was a great time for &apos;if you can haul it, you can have it&apos; deals on crts.</text></comment>
<story><title>John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-inch-169-1080p-monitor-in-1995-20110920/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>Sony FW900, last, best CRT ever made (that was affordable).&lt;p&gt;23 inch 16:10 CRT, 1920x1200 - weighs nearly 100 pounds and draws 150 watts if I remember correctly.&lt;p&gt;Originally like $2000, down to $300 at the end (refurbished).&lt;p&gt;Had variable phosphorus pitch, denser at the corners and an internal cpu adjusted the corners to correct for (earth?) magnetic field.&lt;p&gt;Only went to LCD when mine finally died and there was no one who could repair it and getting another was out of the question because shipping prices have gone through the roof.&lt;p&gt;There is a huge fan thread on them in [H]ardForum with lots of photos.&lt;p&gt;The colors on them are unbelievable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>The high end from Sony is now and OLED &lt;a href=&quot;http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/resource.solutions.bbsccms-assets-cat-mondisp-solutions-oledmonitors.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/resource.solutions...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(these are mostly used for color grading)</text></comment>