From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 15:15:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2561E37B405 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:15:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from richard@localhost) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01739; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:15:36 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:15:36 GMT Message-Id: <200111152315.XAA01739@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: Richard Tobin Subject: Re: Some h/w recommendations please... To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Gary W. Swearingen's message of 15 Nov 2001 14:59:11 -0800 Organization: just say no 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 > All Triniton (ie, Sony) monitors used to have two horizontal row of > reduced-brightness pixels dividing the screen into thirds. There are other makes of screen that work the same way. Sony's patent expired several years ago. Mitsubishi "Diamondtron" screens, used in many brands of monitor, use the same technology. > 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. Probably because they never notice it. I never do except when reminded of it. Presumably people's sensitivity to it varies. Incidentally, they don't affect a whole pixel by any means - the line is *much* thinner than a pixel. > In any event, look at your monitor carefully before buying it, with > a variety of screen content. Of course, what you really want to do is use it for a few days first, because things you notice at first aren't necessarily the ones that are annoying in the long term, but that's usually impractical. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message