jason@cadnetix.COM (07/20/89)
If anyone has had any experience with the Seiko CM1430 monitor, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks, Jason
mitchf@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Mitchel Fry) (07/21/89)
/ hpcvlx:comp.sys.ibm.pc / jason@cadnetix.COM / 1:43 pm Jul 19, 1989 / >If anyone has had any experience with the Seiko CM1430 monitor, >I'd love to hear about it. I had one for about 2 weeks and set it back. It does use the Sony tube which is very nice, but it ONLY does resolutions higher than 640*480 in interlaced modes, and it is NOT a multi-syncing monitor. Some video boards only produce non-interlace output ( which is better anyway) so these boards will not be able to use any resolution above 640*480. I have a Video-7 Fastwrite VGA ( which I am very happy with, high res. drivers are available for just about everything including OS/2 and Presentation Manager, which I am now using). It only produces non-interlaced output as do many others. I exchange the Seiko for SONY's new 1304HD monitor which cost me about $100 extra, but this monitor is GREAT! Multi-scanning all the way up to 1024*768 in EITHER interlaced or non-interlace modes. Seems well worth the extra $100 if you what the higher resolutions. If you are only interested in plain vanilla VGA, then the Seiko may be a good choice ( or if you have a interlaced only video board like the IBM high-res board - yuk!)...MITCH
werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) (07/21/89)
I have become intimately aquainted with the Seiko CM-1430 monitor
in the past few weeks. With the power off, its most impressive feature
is its depth -- it's deep. When on, it has a very nice picture, too.
It can do 1024x768 interlaced. It has trouble doing 800x600. According
to Seiko, only the Tecmar VGA-AD and the Orchid ProDesigner VGA cards will
drive it in 800x600. With a Paradise card, for instance, you get 800x600,
but there is a horizontal roll at the rate of approx. 1.5 screenfuls/second,
slow enough to see the image, but quick enough to make you queasy. The
way the above two do it is to put the monitor in a hybrid mode where the
screen is 1024 by 700 (twice EGA 350) and then display the 800x600
image with a little screen shrinkage. Now, I think the following is also
notable. I happen to own a Wells-American, who puts the EGA/VGA on an
I/O board, with an OEM'd Paradise chip. Over the course of a week, I
talked to technical support personnel from Wells, from Paradise, and
from Orchid. Every technical support person I talked to had a Seiko 1430
on the computer in front of them (now I realize 3 for 3 is not a large
sample, but it was getting pretty ironic after awhile.) I do not know
what that says, but I'm sure that there's a message there somewhere...
--
Craig Werner (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
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