pg wrote:
On Jan 31, 12:11 am, "James Sweet" wrote:
With 10 to 20 dead LCD monitors a week, of different brand / model,
there is just no way we can pry open all of them, get the darn
fluorescent tube out, look up a supplier online (seems that only the
online suppliers sell the tubes), go buy from the supplier, and try
putting the damn skinny tube back into that little space.
No way. It's just no f*cking way !
And the darnest thing is that the LCD monitors all use DIFFERENT &
INCOMPATIBLE TYPES of the fluorescent tube ! Why can't they just unify
the design into one-single-type-of-fluorescent-tube so that people at
least can buy the thing anywhere, and replace them when necessary?
That's a LOT of monitors for sure.

Sell them on ebay, LCDs with dead backlights do/did fetch a surprising amount.

Thanks for the info !

It's all about cost, for consumer use they will usually last until they're
obsolete, are you using low end consumer grade monitors or good professional grade?

Dunno. We got them from the suppliers. Mostly Taiwanese and Korean
brands, such as Acer or BenQ or Samsung or LG.

We get them by the specs - bow many inches 17", 19", 21" - wide-screen
or regular, and the specs are determined by the department heads.

We have some at work that are much older than 2 years which still work fine.

We do have some that still working. It's the dead ones piling up here
- they are two years old or less. What a waste ! !

EVERY wrist watch I've owned has failed. There's a little wheel inside
that goes back and forth. It's always stopped going back and forth.
Why don't they make it so I can take it apart with my gas pliers and 10"
screwdriver. Why can't I go to Ace hardware and buy a new little wheel?
Can't cost more than 10-cents. But they want $40 to fix my watch.
Or better yet, why can't they just make a more reliable little wheel?
I'm sick of throwing away perfectly good wrist watches.

And don't get me started on all those parts in my automobile...

Corporations do the best job they know how given their available
technology to maximize THIER profit. Somtimes, that's consistent
with maximizing YOUR return on your investment. But $#|^ happens...
Doesn't matter how reliable it is if it costs a dollar more, because
MOST of us won't buy it. The reason you don't GET better stuff is
because not enough people are willing to PAY for better stuff.


I mean, why should people throw the whole thing away when it's the
fault of a tiny fluorescent tube ? Why they have to make it such a way
that the tube is next-to-impossible to be replaced ?

Is power saving enabled to turn them off when not in use?

Dunno. There are just too many of them, and most of the users are just
users - tell them about "power saving" and their eyeballs fall out.

Some people swear by these things, they do save a lot of space and energy,
but we've got a few high end LCDs and even those don't look nearly as good
to my eyes as a good and properly adjusted CRT. Sure you automatically get
perfect geometry and convergence, but there's still an "LCD look" to it, I
have no better words to describe it, but the image looks unnatural, and yes,
I always run them at the native resolution for the panel.

Personally I still use CRT. Perhaps I'm old fashion.

Company replacing the CRT with LCD because it'd be counted as expenses
- and that is good for the company in a sense - don't need to pay so
much taxes.


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