Originally posted by irwincur
What a bunch of crap. They are all made by Sony,
Um actually not they are not. Sony leases their Trinitron tube technology to multiple companies. Namely NEC/Mitsubshi.... Their "Diamondtron" is a Trinitron... Its not made by sony though.... It just uses the exact same technology that Sony's do, hence why NEC has to pay Sony royalties for all their CRTs sold. So dont give me bs about Sony makes everyones monitors???? [sarcasm]Yeah Im sure Sony makes NEC's flat CRTs for them and even boxes them up in NEC boxes.[/sarcasm] No Dell nor IBM make their own CRTs. Neither do they make their own Mobos. But Intel doesnt make all the Intel chipset mobos that Dell and IBM sell.... Its all done by OEM manufacturers....

And you obviously havent had a Dell trinitron side by side next to a G500 or a G400....
Lets say we were in magic land and Sony felt like being nice and made everyones monitors... Then the tube that sony puts in the P1110 would be something of less quality than a CPD-E500, not even a CPD-G500.

Direct from Dells spec page:
"Highest addressable resolution* 1800 x 1440 at 75 Hz
* Addressable means the monitor will sync up to this mode. However, Dell does not guarantee the image will be sized and centered correctly."
http://support.ap.dell.com/docs/moni...0/En/specs.htm


Direct from Sonys PDF spec page for the CPD-E500:
"Maximum Resolution:
2048x1536@65hz."
http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/support/...cs/cpde500.pdf

And thats not "Highest addressable resolution." I've run a E500 at 2048x1536@65hz for days on end without any problems, perfectly clear text. Course any refresh rate below 75hz kills my eyes but thats not really the point...

But hey I could be totally wrong. I just got my info from Sony tech reps who could have been talking out of their ***. If so I appologize and I'd eat my words, only if you gave me some kind of proof though. Proof that Sony has some huge plant in China that distributes every flat CRT in the world...