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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advice for low cost 17" monitor..
Date: 3 Jul 1995 10:03:03 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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<mglaris@pic.net> wrote:
>>>Don't
>>>trust anybody promising you 1280x1024 on a 17" monitor, he's promising
>>>you a picture with the finest lines finer than the dot pitch.
>>
>>I'm using a CTX 17" monitor at 1280x1024, and it's _beautiful_.
>>The pixels are so square and so crisp that I cry when I look at my 14"
>>monitor running 1024x768 or even 800x600.
>
>I second this opinion. I also have a CTX 17" monitor and I have never
>been so please with the performance and the image quality.
So tell me please which dot pitch and horizontal exposure length the
monitor has.
>... It repainted
>the screen much quicker than any of the other monitors, including a
>NEC 5 series (I forget just which one), and did so without the flicker.
This is a fairy-tale however. How should the monitor affect the time
the video card will require for repainting? Either you've been too
impressed by the (certainly good) monitor to get this impression, or
it has been driven by some other hard and/or software. Basically the
same holds true for flickering. If you're going to drive a dozen of
different monitors at 50 Hz only, they will all flicker. If you're
driving them all at 90 Hz, you won't see flicker (but perhaps some of
the monitors won't allow this -- but you've been claiming that all the
compared monitors have been driven equally).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)