king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King) (01/13/86)
** I have hooked my amiga to a Sony PVM1271q monitor, and the results in hi-res mode are quite impressive. Using DPaint, I drew a number of horizontal and vertical lines in different colors. Some flicker is apparent, but by adjusting the brightness and contrast it can be lowered to a level where it is not objectional. In fact, with any color lines other than white, the flicker disappears if I move my head back about 3 feet from the monitor. Of course, white horizontal lines of one pixel thickness always seem to flicker, but vertical lines do not, nor do lines of greater thickness. The PVM1271Q is a relatively expensive ($1,000 CDN) communications monitor (capable of decoding NTSC 3.58, NTSC 4.43, PAL, SECAM, accepts RGB inputs) with a SUPER fine pitch CRT ( .25 mm ). I am quite happy with DPaint in the lo-res mode as the monitor gives a crisp, rich looking pictures which are a joy to work with. I have no problem reading 80 X 25 text on the screen and cannot understand why anyone . We have done a side by side comparison with the Sony monitor and a hi-res Conrac hooked to the Amiga. The Sony came out a winner! The picture was sharper ( perhaps due to the smaller screen size), brighter and had richer colors than the much more expensive Conrac. *** Atari owners, eat your hearts out ***
knnngt@ukma.UUCP (Alan Kennington) (01/15/86)
In article <1760@dciem.UUCP> king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King) writes: >be lowered to a level where it is not objectional. In fact, with >any color lines other than white, the flicker disappears if I move >my head back about 3 feet from the monitor. Of course, white horizontal >lines of one pixel thickness always seem to flicker, but vertical This conjures up images of Amiga owners everywhere standing back 3 feet from their flickering terminals, using long sticks to operate the keyboard and a 3-foot extension on the mouse, just so that they don't have to put up with that awful flicker! Why didn't you just buy a 70Hz paperwhite monochrome terminal?..... my apologies to civilised people everywhere who think that I'm another of those ST upstarts. (Hee, hee.) ak. >*** Atari owners, eat your hearts out ***
tomp@amiga.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky) (01/21/86)
In article <2467@ukma.UUCP> knnngt@ukma.UUCP (Alan Kennington) writes: >In article <1760@dciem.UUCP> king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King) writes: >>be lowered to a level where it is not objectional. In fact, with >>any color lines other than white, the flicker disappears if I move >>my head back about 3 feet from the monitor. Of course, white horizontal >>lines of one pixel thickness always seem to flicker, but vertical >This conjures up images of Amiga owners everywhere standing back 3 feet >from their flickering terminals, using long sticks to operate the keyboard >and a 3-foot extension on the mouse, just so that they don't have to put >up with that awful flicker! Why didn't you just buy a 70Hz paperwhite Why don't you bother to notice that the mouse and keyboard are on >3 foot cables. I've been using it the way <king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King)> describes without thinking of it as inconvenient or even worth special comment. Note that this frees the long stick for uses like poking the eyes out of extreme- ly stupid ... well, you get the idea:-). >monochrome terminal?..... my apologies to civilised people everywhere who >think that I'm another of those ST upstarts. (Hee, hee.) ak. >>*** Atari owners, eat your hearts out *** Brain owners, make my day.