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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advice for low cost 17" monitor..
Date: 5 Jul 1995 05:52:54 GMT
Organization: The briney, briney deep
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<mglaris@pic.net> wrote:
% I second this opinion. I also have a CTX 17" monitor and I have never
% been so please with the performance and the image quality.
%
% ... It repainted
% the screen much quicker than any of the other monitors, including a
% NEC 5 series (I forget just which one), and did so without the flicker.
j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
> This is a fairy-tale however. How should the monitor affect the time
> the video card will require for repainting?
Bzzt! Wrong snide remark! (Not often one gets to trip up Joerg, I have
to gloat a *little* bit).
Most modern monitors, including the CTX 1765, have "digital controls" that
watch the incoming signal and try to sync on it. Various monitors take
different amounts of time to recognize the signal and display the screen;
most will blank the output to the tube during this time. The CTX 1765
*I* have is certainly fairly quick in this respect.
> Either you've been too
> impressed by the (certainly good) monitor to get this impression, or
> it has been driven by some other hard and/or software. Basically the
> same holds true for flickering. If you're going to drive a dozen of
> different monitors at 50 Hz only, they will all flicker. If you're
> driving them all at 90 Hz, you won't see flicker (but perhaps some of
> the monitors won't allow this -- but you've been claiming that all the
> compared monitors have been driven equally).
But the flicker may be more or less noticeable between various monitors,
due to differences in the phosphor coating, the glass used to make the
tube, the finish of the glass, etc. The general rule that more expensive
means better picture doesn't seem to hold true for the CTX, however. ;^)
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