barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (04/05/91)
A few weeks back, I asked people about the NEC 4D and other
16"+ monitors for the Amiga. Here is a summary of the responses
I received.
NEC 4D
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 08:34:03 -0800
From: navas@cory.BERKELEY.EDU (David C. Navas)
:Biggest problem I have is that 2.0 ends up leaving a lot of the space to the
:right of the viewspace unusable :(
:
:Black border isn't a huge issue for me -- certainly there is none top to
:bottom. left-to-right there might be, because I've had to center the 2.0
:problem, which menas, yes there is one, but I never notice it.
:
:No, it can't use 15.XX Khx. This means: 1280x200 modes won't work, you can't
:use it with the Video Toaster, Ham-E, DCTV, etc. No 16" monitor I found would
:scan down that far, however, so...
:
:No wild praise, the Nec 4D is what I *expect* from a monitor, I dunno what
:else to say, really. I found a place at work that had one and hooked it up
:before I bought one -- you might consider doing the same.
:
: -Dave
Mitsubishi Diamonscan (16")
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Date: Mon Mar 18 19:32:10 1991 EST
From: wfhami!bill@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu (Bill Hogsett) (Bill Hogsett)
:Dan I have a 16" Mitsuibishi Diamond Scan with my 3000. It works fine.
:The picture fills the screen completely, or nearly enough, that I see no
:black border. I have never tried it with the deinterlacer off. The
:overscan seems to work fine.
:
:I didn't see any other monitors before buying this one, and I have a
:feeling that others might have sharper colors.
:
:I am a satisfied, but not enthusiastic user.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 91 00:31:02 -0500
From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
:BTW, there is a review of 16" monitors in a recent [March? April? 1991]
:Computer Sources or PC Magazine....
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 14:07:03 EST
From: peter@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
::It seems that the larger monitors don't support the 15.xx kHz video
::modes, since they start scanning around 20-30 kHz.
:Surely there must be some monitor. I'd be quite surprised to learn that
:there wasn't. Again, if you don't want SuperHires, you can get a VGA-only
:monitor this size.
::If I have a 16" monitor on my Amiga that can handle only 30 kHz and
::up, such as the Nec 4D, can I use a genlock with this setup?
:The output of the genlock is NTSC (or PAL). Somebody could build a genlock
:that had a digitizing scan-doubler (basically a flicker-fixer) on its
:output. With that hypothetical device you could watch genlocked output on a
:VGA monitor.
:
:So you want a big multiscanning monitor. If you have trouble finding one,
:or affording the one you find, you might be best off with a good VGA monitor
:combined with a simple 15KHz monitor (keep your old 1080/1084/whatever).
Dan
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