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<blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 712745" data-attributes="member: 6469">I have a Sony Trinitron 17&quot; CRT that is getting towards six years old (June/July).About two months ago I started to notice that there was a strange blurring coming from the edge of some of the icons. It was very minor so I didn't worry about it to much and besides, it's not like I could affort to fix it anyway.However, it has gotten steadily worse until now there is a purplish streak going from left to right from all lighter coloured objects on the screen. It's beginning to make things hard to read and it distorts EVERYTHING, from images, to text, and absolutely everything on the screen up to almost two inches from the source.I have two graphics cards available and have switched between them so I'm pretty sure it's not the graphics cards. The blur doesn't follow through into screen shots so I don't think it's software. The only conclusion I can come to is that it's the CRT phosphors or whatever.My question, to anyone who knows, is can this be fixed or am I better off buying a new monitor?I've been told that it can be fixed but to find out, I have to fork out $40 ($25 US) which, if it turns out it can't be fixed, is money I can ill-afford to spend. And even if it can be fixed, this guy was iffy on the price, saying that it could be up to $200 ($140ish US) which I could almost get a new monitor for.I'm not sure I trust this guy and any other stores I've been to are rude, stupid, or tell me to buy a new one and offer me options.Please, if anyone can help it would be most appreciated as I really can't afford to waste money on finding these things out and if the monitor goes... well, there goes most of my life...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DDK, post: 712745, member: 6469"] I have a Sony Trinitron 17" CRT that is getting towards six years old (June/July). About two months ago I started to notice that there was a strange blurring coming from the edge of some of the icons. It was very minor so I didn't worry about it to much and besides, it's not like I could affort to fix it anyway. However, it has gotten steadily worse until now there is a purplish streak going from left to right from all lighter coloured objects on the screen. It's beginning to make things hard to read and it distorts EVERYTHING, from images, to text, and absolutely everything on the screen up to almost two inches from the source. I have two graphics cards available and have switched between them so I'm pretty sure it's not the graphics cards. The blur doesn't follow through into screen shots so I don't think it's software. The only conclusion I can come to is that it's the CRT phosphors or whatever. My question, to anyone who knows, is can this be fixed or am I better off buying a new monitor? I've been told that it can be fixed but to find out, I have to fork out $40 ($25 US) which, if it turns out it can't be fixed, is money I can ill-afford to spend. And even if it can be fixed, this guy was iffy on the price, saying that it could be up to $200 ($140ish US) which I could almost get a new monitor for. I'm not sure I trust this guy and any other stores I've been to are rude, stupid, or tell me to buy a new one and offer me options. Please, if anyone can help it would be most appreciated as I really can't afford to waste money on finding these things out and if the monitor goes... well, there goes most of my life... [/QUOTE]

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