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Originally Posted by Tom9589
mr_fixer, I agree with you about lcd screens. However, I had one CRT monitor which I wish I still had. It was a Sun Microsystems 21" monitor with a Sony Trinitron CRT. I was on my third lcd display before I found one that out performed the Sun monitor. The Sun was very heavy and warmed up the room, but it had an unbelievable picture. At one time, I toyed with the idea of getting a TV board for my computer, but I doubted the performance of the board would be a match to a modern TV.
BTW, my folks had a Zenith color for years and it was always a great performer requiring little maintenance.
Years later, we bought our older son some Zenith and Home Depot stock at the same time as an entry into the stock market. We all know what happen to Zenith. Home Depot fared much better.
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You can have a better CRT monitor...Sony made Super fine pitch HD CRT TV/monitors. Some had a DVI computer monitor port, others had a HDMI port (which DVI and DisplayPort can connect to with an adapter cable), Some have ATSC tuners too...Catch is most are 30"+ and weigh 100Lbs plus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FD_Trinitron/WEGA
I paid $50 for a used KD-34XS955 with ATSC tuner and HDMI...It is my main TV and PC/video monitor. Excellent picture. If I have room in the future I may buy another as a backup/spare parts.
Modern TV tuner cards are quite decent and have been going back a ways...Whether or not one would have been good for you back then would have depended on how far back and how good of specs your PC had then.