I'm looking into picking up a CRT monitor and would love to get my hands a Sony GDM-FW900, unfortunately the only 3 on eBay are local pickup only and too far away. I did however find a similar monitor and wondered if it's worth it. I know I can't link to the eBay auction but it's a Sony GDM-FW9012, OEM HP, reconditioned B-Grade.
From what I can tell it's the same monitor only manufactured by HP but I wanted to see if anyone here knew anything more about it. I'm also a little concerned about the B-Grade thing, not positive what that means but I hear it commonly associated with equipment prone to breaking down. With shipping it's gonna cost me $300, think it's worth it?
O and a couple more questions.
1: Does anyone know if these will accept a Y Pb Pr signal through the VGA port? I may decide to hook my PS3 up to it if I decide to go home for a weekend and don't feel like dragging the 37" LCD home. If they won't that means I'll have to grab an HD Fury so I can connect over HDMI.
2. How do these handle 16:9 resolutions? Again if I connect the 360 or the PS3 to it and output 720p or 1080p I don't any nasty stretching, a good scaling or even black bars would be ideal.
From what I can tell it's the same monitor only manufactured by HP but I wanted to see if anyone here knew anything more about it. I'm also a little concerned about the B-Grade thing, not positive what that means but I hear it commonly associated with equipment prone to breaking down. With shipping it's gonna cost me $300, think it's worth it?
O and a couple more questions.
1: Does anyone know if these will accept a Y Pb Pr signal through the VGA port? I may decide to hook my PS3 up to it if I decide to go home for a weekend and don't feel like dragging the 37" LCD home. If they won't that means I'll have to grab an HD Fury so I can connect over HDMI.
2. How do these handle 16:9 resolutions? Again if I connect the 360 or the PS3 to it and output 720p or 1080p I don't any nasty stretching, a good scaling or even black bars would be ideal.












