IBM (Sony) 6091 19 monitor

Me neither, in theory. But even the cheapest of CRTs could usually autosync to a video signal without putting half a character - or sometimes more - off the edge of the visible display, something I regularly find "modern" flatscreens doing. And this is when connected to peecees, too. And I have a CRT that's willing to sync to a much-too-wide video signal, just squashing it down. It doesn't look good, but it mostly works; text is legible, for example. Modern flatscreens usually display nothing, or at most an "I can't display this" box, instead of doing something sensible with such input. And CRTs could sync to a signal within a frame or two. In my experience, LCDs generally take more like a second, which makes a substantial difference when I'm trying to catch sight of something that come and goes quickly. And a CRT switching from a given signal to the same signal but with a phase glitch because the video hardware got reset typically just jumps for a few tens of milliseconds. LCDs typically do a full "resync to the signal" operation, displaying nothing for several hundred milliseconds. And don't get me started on the way LCDs insist on damaging perfectly good video signals by scaling, rather than letterboxing. I have one - ONE - flatscreen that can be told to letterbox rather than scale. (CRTs generally scaled, but the result wasn't as damaging to the result as it is on LCDs.) And even when scaling - when displaying an 1152x900 signal on a 1920x1080 CRT, it just stretched; when I tried it on an LCD, I typically wound up with something like 1/4 of the display completely off-screen, with no way to manually adjust it back on. Yes, it was a crappy LCD, but crappy CRTs got it righter than that. Or how hard a time I had getting a 1920x1080 LCD to sync to a 1920x1080 signal from my SS20. This sort of thing Just Worked on CRTs. In short, find me flatscreens with the functionality of my CRTs and then we can talk about trashing the CRTs. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B