Name: LGR - Unboxing a New 17" ViewSonic CRT Monitor
Uploaded: 2020-03-12T02:41:24.000Z
Duration: 9 min 51 s
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Greetings! Happy Wednesday, or at least it is when I'm gonna record this and stuff.

Let's open a brand-new monitor in the box!  This is a ViewSonic Optiquest Q71 17 inch monitor from the year 2001...

1280x1024, 87 hertz refresh rate,  .23 millimeter horizontal dot pitch.

ViewSonic makes pretty darn good tubes,  or at least I remember them being good.

I haven't actually used one in a long time. But-

And uh, use it for various projects.  Look at all these awards that it won.

"Designed for Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 98." Awesome!

You know, it's such a hard thing to find  someone that's going to ship like a CRT properly.

And so, a new in box one is going to be packed properly. I know that-

and it's one reason I am happy to pay a little bit more for this. This was $79.

I think that's too much, but I don't really care.  'Cause I'm gonna use it.

Starting here, we have the base. [Chuckles]   That's nice to have.

I've actually come across a few like, used CRTs  of the era that just don't have the base.

I don't know who would take it off. You kinda need it.

This is pretty much what you have to try to mimic  when you are shipping CRTs and

I am just sick and tired of, you know, ordering...

a nice CRT and having it arrive completely busted,  which is very easy to do even if you're very careful with packaging.

You can see even this very sturdily-made bit of styrofoam, in the packaging...

It broke, so it was smashed in the front of the box during shipment.

That would have not worked well with lesser packaging.

Okay, it looks like we have some stuff here. Oh! It has some software.

Nice fresh power cord, that smells perfect.

"ViewSonic Monitor Installation Disk for 95, 98, ME, and 2000,"  which is exactly the range of computers that I'm going to be using this with.

And here's the User Guide.  It's just like... eh, you know, things you can do.

It's a very limited warranty with these.  This was the Optiquest line of ViewSonic monitors.

The parts, I believe, were all the same pretty much.

But uh, they were a budget release because they didn't include things like  extended warranties and like ViewSonic Parts & Repair services.

Look at this beast! Ahh, it's wonderful!  That's a sweet looking CRT!

[Sniffing noise]  Mm, and again, that smells brand-new and beautiful.

What a weird thing. That seems... utterly pointless, but maybe I'm just missing it.

Sticker is about the only indication that this thing is over 16 years old.

Not yellowed yet, which is nice!  The sticker is yellowing though.

Okay, I guess that's what that thing comes off for  because now it makes it... a little easier to get on there.

This thing is like, 50 pounds or something.

Just checked, it's uh, 40 pounds/18 kilograms.

That's a 17 inch monitor, I'd love to get like a 21 inch.  There's some amazing Sony Trinitrons...

[Sigh] but man, those are really hard to find now!

I mean, you know, unless like... run across one at a thrift store,  but that's just like... it's pretty much never going to happen.

I've given up on finding... *sigh* computer CRTs in local thrift stores.  I find them occasionally when I go to Greensboro.

There's a Value Village that still takes them in,  but that's like the only place in the state that I've come across.

Oh man, let's turn this beast on...  before I hook it up to anything.

Might be able to not do anything until I plug anything in, but...

That's okay. *Click* Let's plug something in!

I'm going to plug in my somewhat... ngh, nasty looking  these days, uh, Windows 98 capture machine here,

just generic beige thing that is very much turning yellow.  I gotta do something about that. This thing is getting gross!

It used to be that color just a couple years ago.  It has really gotten yellow over the past few years.

And you got the wonderful monitor... plugged in there.

Yeah, I actually wanna repaint this whole thing,  like I just wanna paint this computer like, I dunno, green or something.

Yeah, I do have a nice, awesome Gateway CRT in there.

Um, it had a Sony Trinitron tube in it, which is also fantastic in a 17 inch.

Um, it's very similar to this, spec-wise.

You know, it's used, I don't know what kind of history it has, and...

Alright Windows, let's see what you get.  Man, those scanlines are looking beautiful.

At least it is to me!  I dunno know how it's looking at the camera.

Or to the camera cause I'm not- not looking.

Okay, so that shows resolution and uh... refresh rate.

[Laughter] Can it go 1600x1200? It didn't say it could.