PEPKE%FSU.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA (01/27/88)
In response to A. E. Siegman's posting about the quality of overhead Mac
displays:
I, too, was at the MacWorld show, and I looked at all the displays. Kodak
was indeed there. In my opinion, the Kodak display was the best at the
show. The contrast was high, it was sharp and fast, and I could
perceive no row or column artifacts. It is not surprising that their
display was so good, considering that the first company to my knowledge
which came out with a good display for the PC was mostly owned by Kodak.
Kodak, unlike many of the other vendors at the show, made sure that the
display conditions were as good as possible, which may have exaggerated
the difference in quality.
The Kodak display was, however specifically for the small Macs, and the
salesman there refused to comment at all about their plans for a Mac II
version.
The use of the term "high-powered" to describe the overhead projector is
dangerous. Everyone who has left an LCD watch on a car dashboard knows
that heat and LCD's are natural enemies. The original Sayett system, the
Kodak precursor, was said to fail after about an hour on cheap projectors.
So, if you get one of these, make sure that the projector has the magic
piece of glass that stops infrared.
I have no connection with any of the vendors except as a potential
customer.
Eric Pepke pepke%fsu.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa
Supercomputer Computations pepke%scri.hepnet@lbl-csa2.arpa
Research Institute pepke%fsu.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu
Florida State University
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