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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Vga Boards, and Seiko's new monitor
Keywords: vga,graphics,windows,video-7,stb,wonder,fastwrite,monitor,seiko
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Date: 5 Jul 89 20:57:29 GMT
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In article <2565@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes:
|While we are talking about VGA, has anyone seen that new monitor by Seiko 
|(CM-1430)?  It has a dot pitch of .26mm and lines instead of dots. 

I've got one and like it a lot. The image is quite nice. Not up to the
quality of the Zenith FTM, but the FTM is limited to 640x480 while the
Seiko/Sony will do 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. It is still nicer
than most other VGA style monitors I've seen. I much prefer the Sony
Triniton cylinder to a spherical tube. I use it with Windows 286 and
have tried CGA, Herc, VGA, and (what I call) UltraVGA. All except the
last work really well. The only problem with UltraVGA(1024x768) is
that the fonts aren't quite right and the characters end up way too
small. I haven't heard many complaints about the interlacing used to
achieve UltraVGA. Certainly it doesn't bother me.

In addition to use with Windows, I've viewed some GIF files and
everyone who's seen them marvel at the quality of the image. 

As long as you are using a controller that provides the modes you need
(if you need CGA, for example), the Seiko ought to make you happy if
that's the size monitor you want. The price is right, the image is
good, and there aren't too many products that offer higher resolution. 

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