From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_wwwebbers.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 18:04:30 EDT
On Mon, 15 May 2000 10:00:40 -1000, David Ross wrote:
>The usual rule of thumb - blurring with improved
>technology - is that shadow mask is better for pure
>text, trinitron is better for geometry and color
>accuracy.
And FD Trinitron (or other really-flat) is better for avoiding
reflection and glare. I really need the sharper text more than
colour accuracy, but I really want the flatness. :( Although I
just have an old 20" Toshiba TV, I love walking through TV stores
(e.g. GoodGuys in Long Beach CA) and trying to pick out the Sony
Wega (FD Trinitron). It's usually quite easy, it's the only one
without any glare, even from across the store/warehouse.
>W/r to the cabling, it is not uncommon for high-end
>monitors to come with both BNC and DB15; the same
>signals are there until the very end, BNC is considered
>a less noisy connection, but the DB15 is plug and play.
I didn't think of plug&play, but at a former employer, we had a 20"
monitor on a machine with a Matrox EISA card (7MB RAM on the card,
~C$2000!) and I think a proprietary connector. When we later
upgraded the machine, we tried a DB15 cable with a new ATI card,
and the sharpness was quite poor. Switched to a BNC video cable
and it was much better.
Which is why I'm surprised the P96 seems to be hard-wired, and why
I was hoping it was equivalent to the BNC.
>(Or so I gleaned while lurking on the Usenet's
>comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video newsgroup a couple of
>months ago prefatory to buying a new monitor - a
>useful exercise, BTW, there are some pretty savvy
>people there.)
Thanks for the pointer!
andrew [awebber_at_wwwebbers.com]
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