I bought one of those monitors "back in the day" and I liked it too. The HDI45 connector was a bad idea for the 99% of the users who just wound up needing a clunky adapter, but for me, it was fine because it plugged right into my 6100. IIRC, larger Trinitrons were much more expensive, but when prices finally started to drop in the late 1990s, they dropped real fast.