From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 15: 0:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2423837B405 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:00:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCC0BD5E for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA30031 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:00:34 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAFMxCi68201; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:59:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some h/w recommendations please... References: <15347.51080.806828.40364@guru.mired.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 15 Nov 2001 14:59:11 -0800 In-Reply-To: <15347.51080.806828.40364@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Others have mentioned Sony, and they are incredible monitors. If you > go to the really large ones, you get some artifacting from the wires > inside the tube that help it maintain shape; this annoys some people > no end, while others have to hunt to see it at all. I had one annoy me on my work desk for several years. "Some artifacting" is too generous and, IIRC, I've seen the problem on small Sony CRTs too. Mine was 19-20"; not 21". All Triniton (ie, Sony) monitors used to have two horizontal row of reduced-brightness pixels dividing the screen into thirds. They were said to be the result of electron-beam shadows from wires which kept the shadow mask against the screen. On a white/light screen (like the light gray editing window I normally had on the screen), you'd see two very noticable gray lines across the screen. It was occasionally handy for use as a horizontal rule to check alignment of stuff. I've never understood why so many people were willing to accept such a design flaw in monitors for which they usually pay a premium price. Actually, I suppose most people like their bright colors more than they dislike their lines. In any event, look at your monitor carefully before buying it, with a variety of screen content. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message