[filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability

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I used Moniserv in Hayward Ca to get the CRT going again. Most of their
business is (don't laugh) CCFT replacement in LCD displays. I've never
seen so many Apple Cinema displays in one place.

Sony displayed a LCD TV using white leds at the 2004 CES. Samsung
displayed a DLP TV using RGB leds at the 2005 CES. This is a real break
through as it will eliminate the color wheel. DLP is good technology.
I'd be plenty happy with HDTV on the desktop.

Getting back to CCFTs, they really should last a long time if driven
with care. The with care part separates the men from the boys.

Arthur Entlich wrote:
> There are a good half a dozen new technologies waiting in the wings to
> supersede LCD panels.  It is one of the reasons LCD panels are dropping
> rapidly, and CRT are literally not being made anymore (as I understand
> it the manufacturers, which are all in Asia, are pretty much working on
> leftover stock and warehouses of parts with nothing new being made in
> the high end at all).
>
> The few complaints people have about LCD screens, will be overcome with
> these new technologies which bring LCD to shame.
>
> There will continue to be a market for scanner for paper documents and a
> slim one for specialized film scanners.  I'm expecting one more
> generation of film scanners, incorporating full frame sensors of some
> sort (maybe three chip) which will be very fast, and probably be
> available to commercial establishments.
>
> I have nothing against fixing monitors, since they are such
> environmental disasters to make, power more than anything, discard. They
> flicker, release radiation, are large and heavy, and they wear out, in
> general more rapidly that newer technologies.  I do wonder what will
> happen to the many millions of TV's test equipment and monitors which
> employ CRT once they are considered obsolete.
>
> Art
>
> lists wrote:
>
>>I had a hell of a time finding a decent non-trinitron CRT monitor to
>>buy. I ended up getting my Nokia 445x pro repaired, after spending hours
>>finding a real monitor repair shop versus stores that just front for the
>>repair shop.
>>
>>Arthur Entlich wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>The days of demand crunches causing price increases on basically
>>>obsolete products is over.  It almost never occurs anymore, because
>>>people recognize the next generation or product is usually cheaper and
>>>offers more options.  If you honestly believe, for instance, CRT
>>>monitors are going to become pricey as they stop manufacture, I've got
>>>some to sell you ;-)
>>>
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