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From: cyamamot@aludra.usc.edu (Cliff Yamamoto)
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Subject: Re: Sony CDP 1304 Monitor
Summary: Awesome
Keywords: NEC Multisync Eliminator
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Date: 17 Aug 90 15:32:33 GMT
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In article <7585@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lasky@iris.Berkeley.EDU (Ty Lasky) writes:
>I would like to know more about this Sony monitor, and why it is so much
>better than the NEC.  Is this monitor 1024x768 non-interlaced?  Is it
>multisync?  What is the dot-pitch (also, what is the dot-pitch on the
>NEC, and what exactly does this dot-pitch stuff mean anyways)? Any other info?
>
>Thanks,
>Ty A.  Lasky

I am biased because I own one and because I've owned a 1302 monitor before
that.  The Sony 1304 is the only monitor in the price range that can handle
1024x768 in non-interlace.  What this means is it's not prone to flicker like
other interlace monitors at the same resolution.  Unfortunately to take
advantage of this capability, you have to get a VGA board that can run at
non-interlace (ie. Video7, Orchird, ATI, etc.).

The 1304 is a 14" multisyncing .25mm dot pitch analog monitor.  It is not
able to scan below 31 KHz, so it can't be used with any CGA or EGA cards (but
then again, it's inputs are only analog, not digital).  This is NOT a problem
since most decent VGA cards will double overscan the 320x200 CGA resolution
into 320x400 to work with VGA monitors at 31 KHz.

The .25mm dot pitch means each trinary color set is spaced .25mm apart.  In
the Sony trinitron tube, the mask is slotted with each color dot spaced like
this: |||.  Each  |  is red, green, blue respectively.  In terms of horizontal
resolution, no other monitor comes close because of this mask scheme.  However
the vertical resolution is not much better then others because of the slotted
mask.

Well regardless, I love mine.  It works great with my VRAM board and even
though it doesn't have the nifty "memory" feature of the NEC 3D, I find I
don't need it anyway, because all my resolutions CGA to SuperVGA are sized
just fine.

If you need more info, email me.
Cliff Yamamoto