So I’m still using an ooooooold 19″ Trinitron monitor, since I’m too cheap (and broke) to spring for a new LCD right now. Trinitrons are good tubes, but this one had been looking increasingly washed-out and greenish over the past year or so. I’d tried messing with the adjustments a bit, but somehow I completely missed the Color Return feature:
More recent models had a microprocessor to handle control and setup, and some Sony Trinitron monitors, including Dell badged ones, featured “digital color return technology” which was intended to enable a return to original factory-shipped color temperature and luminance if desired at any point over the lifetime of the monitor.
And damned if it isn’t like a brand-new monitor again! Rich, saturated colors and no more green tint. I’m still going to get an LCD in the near-future, but this old Trinitron still has some life left in it. Ahh, the good old days when Sony made quality stuff…
I had one that randomly turned yellow. It was so old that I doubt there was a color return feature.
Re: Sony: Goddamn their Memory Sticks and other proprietary storage…
Of course, the week after you get a fly LCD monitor, you’ll end up giving it to your kid…
I have 2 Dell branded Trinitron monitors in a dual head set-up and the colors were never the same. I tried the return color and now they look the same.
Glad I saw this.