Yeah, especially the old CRT ones. You can pretty much pick em up off the streets. I still have like 4 other monitors anyway. Wouldn't be anywhere near worth it to fix it.
I know this is really for arcade, but I wanted to know what happened to my old monitor. I was on it once and the screen started shrinking in and it got kinda greenish and dimmer and finally went black and made a loud ZAP. The monitor has since been disposed of (it was a crappy one anyway, had a...