19" CRT Monitor Recommendations

[Calen]

My old 17" is starting to show its age and wondered what you guys would recommend.

I'm after a 19" CRT FST with a max dot pitch of  .25 and can easily do 1280 X 1024 @ a minimum  of 85Hz, preferably higher, and has good all round picture quality and reliability, USB intregrated is not a must but would be a nice added extra :-)
My max Budget is 180 UKP

I have 2 monitors in mind that i will probably choose from failing any better recommendations

They are:

Iiyama Vision Master Pro 455 Nice monitor that fits just in my price plan

Iiyama Vision Master 1451 lower end and probably up to 40 UKP cheaper

I can get a good deal on the cheaper one but only for today,  your suggestions are most welcome :-)

[Calen]

Yeah LG do have some monitors out there, they have there flatron range out atm with integrated USB but sadly its out of my price range, other wise i would have jumped on it.

Iiyama have always impressed me as they seem to do solid reliable CRT'S with fantastic image quality.
My friend recently got the pro 454 model and i was quite blown away by the overall quality

[Calen]

they were called Visionmaster Pro or something

Yeah the pro range are more pricey as they use the superior Diamondtron rather than the cheaper ones which use shadow mask.

Having said that, i can pick up the pro 454 for just under 170.00 UKP which uses the DiamondTron tech but i dont know if paying the extra 40/50 quid would justify it as i havent used a shadow mask Iiyama to compare with and going by word of mouth

[Calen]

Bizzare, pehaps the pic or that spec is wrong but I did only pay 80 is quid for it.

This kind of thing has happened me alot over the past couple of days when looking round for a monitor.
One place would have different dot pitch and and hz rating from another on the exact same model, bizzare indeed.

Only way to get exact specs it seems is threw the companys own website.

[Calen]

Ok i made my choice and went with Iiyama Vision Master Pro 455 (Diamondtron tube) which i ordered new for 166.00 inc vat, excluding delivery. I think i got a good deal here.

I want to thank you all for your feedback, most of the monitors you all listed, eg: Sony, Mitsubishi, Viewsonic, LG i have looked at but there top end lovely models where just alittle expensive but good monitors none the less.  I've been getting nothing but good reports about most of the Iiyama models which fitted the bill perfect.

To the guy who got deleted with his LCD recommendations, (you must have missed my listed Budget)  in my own view there has never been a better time to get a good spec CRT monitor mainly because of the price drop as LCD's are starting to become more common.
For me to get one to equal the spec of a good CRT 19" monitor i would at least be doubling my budget post, way out of my league.  but who knows, maybe in 3/5 years when the tech and prices have matured, then it may become more realistic ;-) untill then, LCD's really have no interest with me.

Cheers all :-) :pint: