If you've been in this long enough to have used a CRT, you may remember that the Sony Artisan monitor was the gold standard. In 2008, I retired mine in favor of a NEC LCD3090WQXi LCD. The last few days, I tried to put it back in service. The Artisan software didn't work (it looped), so I ran Coloreyes software to recalibrate. The problem is that while mid-tones and highlight were OK, shadows (anything less than 60 on a scale 0-255) were just awful. At the time the monitor was retired it was working just fine, so I am wondering if the hardware can degrade that much in 8 years while the monitor was not in use at all ?