peter@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter Wu) (06/05/90)
Thanks to all who replied concerning the SVGA monitors ... but I'm still not sure ... I think from PC Mag's review and a friend's recommendation, I may try to get a Sony 1304. It can handle 1024x768, non-interlace. But there are more people with opinions ... please send them to: peter@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu But I'm still not sure about what kind of SCGA card to get with the monitor ... I had asked that in the original message, but no one answered that one ... comments? I'll summarize again... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is a summary: From: Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu> I'm currently using a NEC 3D and like it, but want to warn you: it can only do 1024x768 interlaced. I don't like the interlacing and wouldn't recommend it. (Actually, I've read that it'll probably do that resolution, but there's no guarantee. My video card, an ATI VGA Wonder, can't do non-interlaced, so I don't really know.) Duncan Murdoch --- From: Harri Valkama LAKE <hv@uwasa.fi> I just bought a cheap 1024x768x16 monitor called LiteOn. I don't know if you can find that in US but it is Taiwanese build and it got Panasonic tube inside. I think it is quite good. Here at home I am looking at right now Nec II (1024x768x16) so I have a little experience of others as well. This LiteOn was 1/5th cheaper as Nec 3D that I was considering also. --- From: Mary Winters <mjw06513@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> The Princeton Ultrasync is an excellent monitor. I've had mine for almost 2 years with absolutely no problems (and I run it with a Tseng chipset SVGA card, and the Ultrasync will do 1024x768x16 with no noticeable flicker). It's also priced a bit lower than the NEC Multisync. --- From: tpf@jdyx.atlanta.ga.us (Tom Friedel) Then NEC 3d is really one of the cheapest monitors that will do 1024x768, I have found. I am writing because I am trying to sell a new STB EM16+ card that has 1 meg 80 ns RAM and does 1024x768x256. It is $290. It would work with the 3d. tom --- From: troby@diana.cair.du.edu (THORNTON ROBY) See PC Magazine May 15, 1990 for a review of 800x600 monitors and April 10 1990 for 1024x768. Be sure to try any monitor with your card before buying - I got the Seiko CM1440 because the specs looked so good but they seem to have a non-standard video cable and my Paradise SVGA card doesn't recognize that the monitor is capable of 800x600. One other note on the Seiko: it doesn't seem as bright as some of the others - I vaguely remember some inverse relationship between dot pitch and brightness. Also, Seiko will be coming out with the 1450 with 1024x768 non-interlaced in "July", but if you need digital compatibility that wouldn't work for you anyway. --- From: Sub Ramakrishnan<rama@andy.bgsu.edu> The PC magazine (I think April 1990) has two excellent (rather long) articles; one on SVGA cards and the other on 1024x 768 monitors. They are excellent well written articles. One card (among a few) others that they recommended was genoa 6400 svga. I did buy one myself just last week; I am satisfied with its price and performance. It is capable of handling virtually all known standards. > I am currently only considering the NEC 3D, but which is a bit pricy. > I know that it can handle everything that I need it to handle. I was > considering the Seiko 1440 but it turns out that it can't handle EGA > and CGA modes. What other monitors are good and how much are they? I went through the same problem! Again, I went for a monitor that is compatible with every standard. Of course, it is not as well known as the NEC 3D. It is made by maatsushita: View Perfect 3. Carries all the same features as NEC 3D but costs a lot less. (The reason, for the price differential, I am told is that the product was introduced an year ago). It works just fine. ps: I do NOT have any affiliations with these product vendors or comapnies. Sub Ramakrishnan (Internet # 129.1.1.2; rama@andy.bgsu.edu)
phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (06/06/90)
In article <1990Jun5.160335.29585@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> peter@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter Wu) writes: |Be sure to try any monitor with your |card before buying - I got the Seiko CM1440 because the specs looked |so good but they seem to have a non-standard video cable and my |Paradise SVGA card doesn't recognize that the monitor is capable of |800x600. One other note on the Seiko: it doesn't seem as bright as I have a 1440 hooked up to a Paradise 1024 VGA and it works fine, in fact, it works very well at 800x600 and I used to use it that way all the time until Windows 3.0 came out. As soon as I get a driver I'll do it again. |some of the others - I vaguely remember some inverse relationship |between dot pitch and brightness. I have no problem with the brightness. There are in fact some VGA cards that will drive it hard enough that I can crank up the brightness to the point where the monitor shuts down, presumably to protect the power supply. This is at a point where it is much brighter than I would want anyway. (I used to try many different VGA cards with this monitor) -- Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil "Separate but equal": bad for blacks, good for women.
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/06/90)
You didn't mention the LOOP SVGA monitor from COMPEQ. It's now advertised in PC Magazine. It costs $359, does 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, has a .28 mm dot pitch, and it's really great. I've got one, and I wouldn't part with it. Of course, I've also got a Zenith FTM at work, and I wouldn't part with *that* either. But it's not SVGA :-(. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems