Sony CPD-E540/B FD Trinitron 21" CRT Monitor (Black)

From the Manufacturer

The E540 21-inch computer display is ideal for spreadsheets, detailed graphics, and gaming. The visually flat high resolution FD Trinitron CRT with 0.24 mm Aperture Grille delivers superior image clarity and truer brighter colors. The high contrast screen coating reduces glare and eyestrain, while DisplayMouse OSD control provides easy setup and adjustment.

Product Description

The E540 21" computer display is ideal for spreadsheets, detailed graphics and gaming. The visually flat high resolution FD Trinitron CRT with 0.24 Aperture Grille delivers superior image clarity and truer brighter colors. High contrast screen coating reduces glare and eyestrain, while DisplayMouse OSD control provides easy set-up and adjustment.

Customer Reviews:

I can't believe they don't make this any more........2005-01-08

I've had this monitor for at least 2 years, and it's still the best picture ever. It's amazing how swindled everyone's been by the LCD craze, considering how poor a quality the image usually is.
Anyway, I know it's irrelevant now, but since I saw the bad review someone else gave, I just want to point out: the guy was wrong. He probably had it next to a strong magnetic field (maybe it was on the same circuit as his refrigerator or an old television).

Poor Quality, Convergance Problems. Stay Away.......2003-01-03

It looks sleek and isn't as deep as 21" monitors used to be...but poor convergence, fuzzy text and quality problems plague this monitor. If you read lots of the online reviews for the e540 you will find the most common complaint to be the convergence of the monitor. If you set all the red green and blue phosphors to be perfectly aligned in the center of the screen they were horribly misaligned on the corners, particularly on the left side. The result was text that was clear in the center of the screen but very blurry towards the left. Aiding to the problem was that there were 3 vertical convergence controls (top, middle, and bottom) but only 1 horizontal. It seems as if Sony purposely crippled the controls on the lower end monitor so you would be forced for a reason to buy their more expensive line.

About a week into getting the monitor it also started experiencing shaking problems that made it useless. Although it was infrequent, the problem did reappear every few days - even on a different computer (so I rule out a video card problem).

Another negative was the very thin video cable that I think would be prone to interference. Sony took far too many shortcuts on this model. Stay away.

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