New Monitor advice / CTX or Iiyama ?

[nick heppinstall]

Hi all. I intend to buy a new 19" monitor in the next couple of days. Anyone had experience of either the CTX 960F or the Iiyama Pro454 ?

Cheers

Nick

[CleG]

Had the Iiyama .. very nice monitor for the price.
I then sold that monkee and got the sony F520, due to all the time spent staring at the thing I needed a higher res.

Had no experience of the CTX one

[SGirl]

Personally I prefer Iiyamas. IMHO.

Edited to say why!

Their customer service was brilliant when I used it (vertical hold went on my monitor). First of all they were amazed there'd been a fault at all, then they replaced the monitor without question with a new one. The bloke bringing the new one dropped it (!) and they replaced that straight away. Then when I called to ask when my old one would be repaired, they said they had no intention of giving me back a repaired monitor and I could keep the new one.

Good stuff.

>> Edited by SGirl on Thursday 17th October 10:35

[pdv6]

Bought a 19" CTX for work last year (couldn't justify the price of the Iiyama). Died just after the warranty ran out and wasn't that nice to use when it was working.

2p kerchiiing!

[CarZee]

CTX are of very variable quality and definitely fall into the cheap and cheerless category. I've had one for undemanding use (server heads) but wouldn't want it on my desktop - eyes much more valuable than that!

Don't have any experience of this Dalai Lama monitor, but I expect it has Zen on it's side

[thrust]

Those are both extremely good quality monitors (for those who doubt the CTX, there's a review here) In fact I think I'd go for the CTX myself, it's got a marginally better tube (0.24mm dot pitch Sony Trinitron vs. the 0.25mm DiamondTron of the Iiyama). I doubt you'd be disappointed with either though.

[steve-p]

Iiyama every time. I'm on my third in a row.

[pdv6]

thrust said: Those are both extremely good quality monitors (for those who doubt the CTX, there's a review here)

Treat the review with caution, as its 2 years out of date. Current model of the same name might not be so nice.


>> Edited by pdv6 on Thursday 17th October 12:43

[IPAddis]

We've had both Iiyama and CTX at work. If the power cable falls out the back of a CTX, we replace it with an Iiyama. Cheap cr*p.

Taxan also do some good stuff and their customer service is excellent.

Ian A.

[MGv8]

Hi
I worked for ViewSoinc for 3 years as a PR eng. so I had £10,000 worth of kit to test monitors. I would not even bother with the CTX.
Go to VNU labs or ZDNet as thay both know how to test monitors, and look at there reports.
Most mags with give you a good wright up if you put a add with them, but VNU and ZDNet would not.

[danger mouse]

thrust said: (0.24mm dot pitch Sony Trinitron vs. the 0.25mm DiamondTron of the Iiyama). I doubt you'd be disappointed with either though.

Hang on a minute, ]

I thought you said my Monitor (Iiyama VisionPro)had a Trinitron tube, or was that just Trinitron style? That's why it's got those funny lines across it. mmm... probably remebered wrong, wouldn't be the first time.

[thrust]

danger mouse said:

Hang on a minute, ]

I thought you said my Monitor (Iiyama VisionPro)had a Trinitron tube, or was that just Trinitron style? That's why it's got those funny lines across it. mmm... probably remebered wrong, wouldn't be the first time.

Well, DiamondTron is the Mitsubishi version of Sony Trinitron - they both have the damping wires. I think Iiyama used to use Sony tubes anyway.

[danger mouse]

that was it, so my screen shares parentage with the evoVI, cool

[MGv8]

You can get a sony style tube with just one wire...
Sonys tube is not not under copy right so any one can make them.
There are about 8 compenys in the world that make tubes so you can find a sony with a Philips tube...etc...

[nick heppinstall]

Thanks guys ( and girl ! ) went for the Iiyama. Will be here in the morning. I'll post what I think !

Cheers

[danger mouse]

I'd go for the CR-X everytime, but you probably knew that!