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- From: joseph@lilliput.fdn.org (Joseph Goldstone)
- Subject: Re: Flickering in new 17" Trinitron monitor
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.182151.3909@lilliput.fdn.org>
- Keywords: NeXTdimension
- Sender: joseph@lilliput.fdn.org
- Organization: Lilliputian Pictures - Paris, France.
- References: <1992Dec19.195659.18574@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:21:51 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- Philip McDunnough writes
- > In article <6116@rosie.NeXT.COM> Ross_Werner@next.com writes:
- >
- > [Flickering, ND and the new 17" NeXT monitor]
- >
- > Is the new 17" monitor an officially supported product with the NeXT
- Dimension?
- >
- > Philip McDunnough
- > philip@utstat.toronto.edu
- >
-
- Seemingly so. My 17" FIMI got whomped so hard in the process of being shipped
- from LA to Boston and then to Paris that the shadow mask is no longer
- completely attached internally, so I kinda have no choice but to go get a
- replacement. By the time I could get the insurance investigation filed, the
- FIMI had been removed from the pricelist and so I called NeXT and asked them
- what the chances were of using the new monitor with my NeXTdimension.
-
- Apparently it works pretty well. As was told to me maybe 6 weeks ago, if you
- have an Olde Systeme like mine, Olde '040, Olde ND, Olde SoundeBoxe, Olde
- Keyboarde, &c, the display works but with the following quirk: the active area
- of the display is shifted offcenter, I forget exactly howmuch, maybe 3/16" if
- memory serves, and I forget to which side.
-
- This I can live with. Right now the monitor is really limping, there is no way
- you could use it to produce colored imagery that wouldn't look ridiculous on a
- correct system (there are big blotchy shadows in various places on the screen,
- in one quadrant the whites are cyanotic, and so on). For me, 3/16" of an inch
- seems like a pretty small price to pay to fix this situation. If your monitor
- is working as well as a decently-tuned FIMI can manage, and what you want to
- fix is the lack of the Sony sharpness, maybe 3/16" is too annoying.
-
- ------
-
- I have been talking to NeXT about paying to get my ND refurbed from NTSC to
- PAL, which is apparently doable, but you have to ship the board to the factory,
- where they do a PAL (as in the silicon, not the TV standard) replacement, and
- then do a bunch of tuning and calibration, presumably on that equipment rack
- whose picture was in the last NeXTWORLD. Probably this is wishful thinking,
- but maybe an old ND could be factory-adjusted to shift back that 3/16"? I must
- be dreaming. If I ever find out more about either the price of the NTSC/PAL
- change, or the possibility of eliminating the 3/16", I'll post something.
-