Yesterday the monitor on my main computer died. I was working on a promotion letter (see my next post) and the letters mis-printed. I’d already turned my monitor off before looking at the letters, so I had to turn the monitor back on. Black screen. Power light was on, but no image. I ran to my video editing station, pulled off that monitor and stuck in on here. Back up and running!
So last night I started doing a search for a new monitor. I could have either gotten a new 23″ screen for around $150, or. . . what if I upgraded the video monitor and kept the wide screen on this machine? I did a little digging and I found a 32″ HDTV at BestBuy. While most of the rest of the TVs in that size were $350+, this one (their in-house Dynex brand) was $270.
I popped ’round to BB on Rt 31 in Clay and one of employees, Seth, was kind enough to haul the demo model half way across the floor and hook it up to a laptop that had some videos on it. Great picture! It’s “only” 720p, but I’ve got it hooked to a computer with a VGA cable, editing video. I’m happy with it! And a comparable “monitor” of the same size is right around $500. I think I got a heck of a deal!
My thanks to Seth for all the time and effort on my behalf.