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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2080 woes...and more.
Keywords: A2080 Interlace A500 A1084
Message-ID: <12893@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 89 18:31:58 GMT
References: <1565@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> <667@neptune.UUCP>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <667@neptune.UUCP> georgeh@neptune.UUCP (George Hagilaris) writes:
>I have a 1084 monitor hooked up to my Amiga500 and I get the same fuzziness
>problem in interlace that people have been complaining about with the A2080...
>...this is what I mean when I say that my monitor goes
>fuzzy:  It appears to go into a "double interlace" mode because the display
>seems to vibrate two pixels up and down rather than just one (as with normal
>interlace).  As a result, you can suddenly also see the vertical scan lines
>like you do in non-interlace mode (which normally disappear in interlace).
>Also, because of the "double vibration", the text (and everything else) on the
>screen is fuzzy and hard to read.
George -
     Yes, I've got this problem. I had the monitor in the shop for two months;
it came back twice, and wasn't fixed either time. They keep saying that they
"don't see anything wrong" which means they're either blinder than bats or
just don't care about slightly merged images and (**&@^#*$(!!!!! pixel gap
between lines. From what I understand, this is unfortunately common on 1084
monitors. (BTW, no, it's not my computer, which is what they kept trying to
tell me. Same system works fine on other monitors.)
     On mine, it doesn't ever "go away" until I find some way of cooling
off the monitor. I put a fan on the unit (one of the magnetically isolated
Radio Shack jobs, 21 cfm) which slows down the process, but doesn't fix it.
     Basically, I wouldn't recommend a 1084 to anybody. I'm going to be getting
a Diamondscan in a month or two (or three, at the rate things are going...
some *&@($!!! hit my parked car the other day and took off...). Good luck on
getting it fixed (assuming it's fixable; anybody out there know what is
actually going on here?)
                                                       - R'ykandar.
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