Sony F520 question???

[petreza]

Hi,

I had a question and I emailed SONY but they havent answered yet so I decided to post.

First, is anyone here using this arguably "the best CRT on the planet" - SONY F520? What is your opinion of it? Is it as good as they say it is?

Second, the question I asked SONY was:

I read a few months back that there will be an update to your F520 model monitor. It will get a new coating on the CRT tube or something. I assume it will be better than the old one. My questions:

1. Has this new version been released? If not, when? (best guess if no date)

2. Does it (will it) have a new model number - linke F520-2 or something. In other words - if I want to buy a monitor with the new coating, how can I distiinguish it from the old model.

3. What other improvments will the new model have? (refresh rate etc.)

If you can help me with any of that I will grealy appreciate it!!

Thank you!

 

[BaldHeadedDork]

I don't think you'll find a lot of argument that the F520 isn't the best CRT on the planet. If its twice as good as a Viewsonic P225F or Mitsu 2060U...now that's an argument.

Don't know anything about a new F520, but Viewsonic is coming out with a replacement for the 225 and Mitsu is about to ship the 2080U. No details yet, but this might be something that effects all of the top line big screens.


BHD

 

[mEKbOY]

The new screen coating is for anti-glare. The other update is the usb ports on the monitor will be upgraded to usb 2.0. When its actualy comig out i dont know.

The price is quite high but the quality isn't much better than my Mitsubishi Diamondpro 2040u which is about $400 cheaper. If you want to spend around $1,700 for a monitor i would go for the 24" gw900 instead. Otherwise get a 22" diamondpro...you wont be dissapointed.