[Gllug] OT: recommend place to buy 17" tft monitor

[Nix]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Chris Bell spake:
> On Sun 12 Dec, Nix wrote:
>> It arrived with probable delivery damage (the shadow mask was bent in
>> one corner) which totalled it in nine months. Iiyama's warranty people
>> replaced it instantly (in under a day), and they *didn't* smash up the
>> replacement in transit.
>> 
>    I have never heard of anything like that happening through mechanical
> damage, although I have seen an effect which looks like that but was really
> caused by a speaker or telephone parked nearby. It usually takes a few
> degauss cycles to cure.

Yes: that was the initial symptom; the lower-left corner shaded green
and red. A degauss fixed it.

But nine months after purchasing I turned it on and the *entire screen*
looked like that, green and red at the bottom, red and blue at the top,
blue and green in the middle (I think), with bands of greyish no-colour-
in-particular between them.

My best guess (knowing almost nothing about monitor internals and based
on half an hour of web-wanderings and FAQ reading) is that the shadow
mask is stress-mounted somehow, so that it's really strong when properly
attached, but when part of it isn't properly attached it can perhaps pop
entirely free.

But it was only a guess --- and anyway, it got replaced with no
difficulty.

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