NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/next/hardware/3102

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Subject: Re: Flickering in new 17" Trinitron monitor
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 03:19:13 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(Joseph Goldstone) writes:
> Philip McDunnough writes
> > In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
> >
> > [Flickering, ND and the new 17" NeXT monitor]
> >
> > Is the new 17" monitor an officially supported product with the NeXT
> Dimension?
> >
> > Philip McDunnough
> > [e-mail]
> >
>
> 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.

You'll lose about 5/8" of screen real-estate all the way around the the edge,
plus the screen will be shifted about 3/16" to the right (thus giving you about
a 13/16" black edge on the left, and about a 7/16" black edge on the right).

Well, actually, if I want to get REALLY picky, the real-estate loss is larger
on the sides than it is on the top and bottoms (the loss is a percentage of
original size, and the monitor is wider than it is tall, hence the loss on the
width is more than the loss on the height), but as I sit here looking at the
monitor, 5/8" seems like a good average number to report.

The screen shift is easily adjustable internally.  You can do nothing for the
remaining 5/8" screen loss around the edges without distorting the picture.

I have one hooked to my ND.  It's much preferable over the Fimi's, even with
the shrunken image.

BTW, this gives you a ~96 DPI razor sharp Trinitron display instead of 92 DPI
crapola Fuzzy-Fimi display.  Believe me, you can get used to it.

--
Nevin Pratt, Digital Technology, Int'l    Orem, Ut
NeXTmail preferred, but ONLY at my REAL email address: [e-mail]

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