For the CRT monitor freaks - highest resolution you ran on your tube?
Just what the title says. For me it's 1792x1344 on a 19" Nokia 920C. Not something i'd watch all day as it only does it at 70Hz and it's hard on the eyes, but the amount of screen space i have is so big it's stupid. 
Definitely helps with music production progs. I'm actually surprised it can maintain a sharp picture at this high of a res - this is a consumer grade monitor AND with a short neck tube and all its shortcomings. I did spend a good few hours calibrating it last year and they seem to have paid off, coz there's not a single objection to be made on the whole screen.
My friend who i work music with asked me why i reverted to this CRT (i had three 19" LCDs and sold them all). I opened up PowerStrip, cranked the resolution to 1792x1344 and fired up FL Studio. "That's why". And he was like "holy crap, on my monitor the mixer takes up like half the screen". He's going to be able to experience the same soon, as both me and mom are cleaning up the house, and i'll be giving him the 19" Eizo that has been lying in the living room doing nothing for over an year now. I remember i need to fix something on it tho, but i don't exactly remember what it had.
My usual desktop resolution is 1440x1080 coz that's the max it does at 85Hz. I usually game at 1600x1200 (75Hz). My Radeon HD3870 still manages most stuff at that res, but in case things get sluggish i can always drop to 1440x1080 or even 1280x960. And i can also play old games at their 800x600 or 640x480... With no quality loss. No pixelation. No scaling. That's why i still like tube monitors.
The 21" IBM P275 i have at my grandparents' place won't do over 1280x1024 readable due to focus and jitter issues (apart from the slightly soft focus it also has a ripple on the picture, probably bad caps somewhere). I hope to fix it this summer. If i focus it properly and get rid of the ripple, i'll probably be able to run 1600x1200 for daily use. And that's on XP there. Whole lotta screen space.
Definitely helps with music production progs. I'm actually surprised it can maintain a sharp picture at this high of a res - this is a consumer grade monitor AND with a short neck tube and all its shortcomings. I did spend a good few hours calibrating it last year and they seem to have paid off, coz there's not a single objection to be made on the whole screen. My friend who i work music with asked me why i reverted to this CRT (i had three 19" LCDs and sold them all). I opened up PowerStrip, cranked the resolution to 1792x1344 and fired up FL Studio. "That's why". And he was like "holy crap, on my monitor the mixer takes up like half the screen". He's going to be able to experience the same soon, as both me and mom are cleaning up the house, and i'll be giving him the 19" Eizo that has been lying in the living room doing nothing for over an year now. I remember i need to fix something on it tho, but i don't exactly remember what it had.
My usual desktop resolution is 1440x1080 coz that's the max it does at 85Hz. I usually game at 1600x1200 (75Hz). My Radeon HD3870 still manages most stuff at that res, but in case things get sluggish i can always drop to 1440x1080 or even 1280x960. And i can also play old games at their 800x600 or 640x480... With no quality loss. No pixelation. No scaling. That's why i still like tube monitors.
The 21" IBM P275 i have at my grandparents' place won't do over 1280x1024 readable due to focus and jitter issues (apart from the slightly soft focus it also has a ripple on the picture, probably bad caps somewhere). I hope to fix it this summer. If i focus it properly and get rid of the ripple, i'll probably be able to run 1600x1200 for daily use. And that's on XP there. Whole lotta screen space.
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