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From: watters@adena.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters)
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Subject: Re: Specs for 1080 monitors?
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In article <25109@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> commike@sunybcs.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Alan Commike) writes:

>Well that's not entirely true. There are a bunch of older 108[0|4](S) monitors
>that display interlace as a kind of "double-interlace". Instead of interleaving
>the 2 frames, they are displayed on top of each other. This has the nasty
>effect of leaving whole scan lines blank where the second frame should
>be. 
>	...alan


A little monitor history:
First was the 1080, made by '?'.  Then came the 2002 made by '?'
A 1070 was in there somewhere.  All these were fine in my opinion.

Then came the dreaded 1084 made by Magnavox.  JUNK, crap, garbage!!
These are the ones that you constantly here about snapping and dying.
Where I worked, we had them being returned in droves!  Then came
the 1804S which was the same monitor in stereo, with the same problems.
De-interlacing an interlaced screen whenever it wanted to, poping
dying, unusual shaded bands going down the leftside of the screen,
scanlines at the bottom of the screen doing very flaky things, ect...

Then came the 1084sD, made by '?' (maybe magnavox, but certainly a different
monitor then above).  This one was wonderful.  Picture was clear, contrast
was perfect, scanlines were closer, most of the above symptoms were
gone and they flickered a lot less.  Well, for some reason CBM ended
up selling a non-stereo version of the D, but it was still a great 
monitor.

Then I hear through close people that someone in the new improved
CBM brass let the contract with the makers of the 1084D go un-renewed!!!
And guess what, all the new monitors being shipped now are back to the
old junk, crap, trash magnavox's!!!

Why?  Explain this to me?  $299 for a monitor is a great price, by why
sell a junk monitor with a $3000+ '030 workstation. (2500/30) and why
not continue selling the 1084D(s)????????????????????????????????