I would like to dedicate this post today to send off my oldest wide screen monitor in my family, my Dell 23″ W2306C, it has served my computing need for the past several years. As one of the earliest generation of wide screen LCD monitor X TV combo, it was not one of the best equipped compare to today’s standard, however, it has served me day and night for the past 3 years or so without fail, it had a weird 1366 X 768 resolution which was terribly inadequate for my computing need..
It was big, it was bulky, but it has a ton of input options, like DVI, VGA, 2 Components, S-Video and 1 composite. I got it before I really understood all the high definition slangs, at first I was disappointed in the display quality thinking it didn’t look any different than my other LCD, how is this “high definition”?? It was until later did I find out that I had no “high definition” video source to plug into it ….
I thought about replacing it several times but I just couldn’t bring myself to replace it while it was still in working conditions, so I hung onto it until 2 days ago, where a black out and brown out within a 24 hours period finally put it to sleep….
For the past 3 years, it has always served as my alternate machine monitor which control all the torrent actions and emails, and occasional eroges. In its finest moment, it even made an appearance in the DannychooXKotobukiya project OTACOOL!
Despite my various attempts to try to bring it back to life, all indications have pointed to the internal power supply have met its end. Despite my grief of losing my oldest widescreen monitor, I have to act quickly to find a replacement for it. I shopped around in newegg and found this neat little 24 inch”
Originally, I was looking at a equivalent Samsung model 2494HM, but this Asus VW246H has much more customer reviews and scored higher on the overall customer satisfactions rating, about 73% feedback gave it 5 stars, and that’s pretty good I think! The order has been placed, hopefully I will receive it soon after Chinese New Year!
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Oh man… Looks like it’s the season of dead monitors/TV… Looks like you were quick to find a replacement unlike mine ^^;
Yeah the brown out really killed it, if it was another black out it would have been fine, but the drop and fluctuation in the voltage blew the supply. But I got a replacement coming on Monday that has the HDMI input I so wanted in the alt monitor~
Ah, sucks when a monitor fails. Had some older CRTs stop working but all my LCDs have been performing dutifully so far. Hope that continues xD
Hmmm, the ASUS LCD looks decent. It has a TN panel which I’m not very fond of for color reproduction but the price is hard to beat ^^;
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I am partial to the IPS panel myself but since this is just the monitor for my alt machines and WHS which only handles emails, torrent and the occasional eroge, it doesn’t require a high spec.
r.i.p. Dell monitor, that wasnt a good way to go out XD what is a brown out? not familiar with that term. glad you are able to get a replacement.
i had a Dell 21″ lcd that died a while back. man it was my first high quality lcd, my previous being a cheap 14″ i think that killed my eyes to look at lol
A brown out is an instance where the voltage supplied to your house has dropped significantly to a point where most of your appliances would stop working but not completely kill it. A black out would have been less damaging since it cut off the power cut, it was the brown out that didn’t completely cut off power that is truly dangerous to electronics.