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- From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
- Subject: Re: MAG 17
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.040239.7167@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:02:39 GMT
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- In article <burleigh.721860659@ogre> burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh) writes:
- >In <1992Nov15.034621.21404@zooid.guild.org> Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- >
- >>msfuller@cc.utah.edu (MARC S. FULLER) writes:
- >
- >>Marc,
- >>I have this monitor for a few months and it's excellent. I would definetely
- >>recommend it to anyone who wants a good monitor. According to PC Magazine, it
- >>is better that the NEC, and it goes for a better price.
- >
- >>I run it with a 486/50DX with 16 Megabyte RAM and OS/2 and I love it.
- >
- >Me too. And I agree. But has anyone noticed this?
- >
- >Whether the video card is in a graphics or text mode, the corners are
- >just a tad darker than the rest of the screen. So for example if you
- >have a blue background, then the four corners will be just a tad
- >darker shade of blue.
- >
- >I also notice that if I have a white background and dark text, there's
- >a bit of a shadow of the text to the right of the text. I'm thinking
- >that I didn't see these shadows until I borrowed a friend's cheapo VGA
- >card (could a video card do that? I hope so, else this post is one big
- >contradiction!;-)).
- >
- >
-
- I don't have the shadow effect but have noticed higher brightness centrally
- than at the edges. This is only apparent with a uniform screen. The eye
- is not particularly good at seeing brightness differences in the absence
- of contours so it is not particulary troublesome.
-
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