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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seiko CM-1430
Keywords: 800x600 problems
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Date: 8 Jul 89 01:42:30 GMT
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In article <2338@aecom.yu.edu> werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
|	The CM1430 is not a true multiscanning monitor.  It has multiple
|frequencies, but will not sync to all intermediate scanning rates. The

This is true, it even says so in the manual.

However, I'd like to point out that the two modes, 640x480 and
800x600, are not that far off in frequency. 

31.5KHz, 60Hz vs 35KHz, 56Hz. 

|A call to Seiko confirms that this occurs with most VGA adapters, with
|the notable exceptions of the Orchid ProDesigner and another by Tecmar.

I've got the ProDesigner.

|	One monitor which seems to be the rough equivalent (and which Sony
|introduced several weeks after I bought my Seiko monitor) is the
|Sony MultiSync 3D.  It has a street price about $100-$150 greater than the

You mean NEC, don't you? Actually, I started out looking for a
MultiSync 3D and the store was out so I got the Seiko instead. I only
wish it was physically larger, a 14" screen is not optimal for
displaying 1024x768. 
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