| m0ney said: I had a 17 inch CRT monitor up until August of 2008 when I bought a 22 inch 1080p widescreen monitor. You can argue that CRT monitors are HD too since their native resolutions are 1024x768 or something but we know how tiny games look on them compared to widescreens. |
Image quality was always important to me, so I was an early adopter of high res displays
PC HD (1280 x 1024 @ 85 Hz in 21'') = 1999 ... it was also able to display 1600 x 1200, but the VGA signal got blurry with that frequences
https://www.cnet.com/products/iiyama-vision-master-pro-501-crt-monitor-21/specs/
PC FullHD (1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz in 24'') = 2007
https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-ultrasharp-2407wfp/review/
movies / console HD (1280 x 720 in 80'') = 2004
http://www.projektoren-datenbank.com/pro/index.php?angabe=panasonicptae700&id=
movies / console FullHD (1920 x 1080 in 80'') = 2008
http://www.hcinema.de/pro/anzeigen.php?angabe=sonyvplvw50
And a fun fact: my 21'' CRT had theoretically a bit more screen space than your 9 years younger 22'' flatscreen (but since only 20.0'' - 20.5'' wery visible, the flatscreen probably had a bit more screen space)
