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From: osmoviita@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Sony monitors
Message-ID: <3327.2713d8da@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 11 Oct 90 02:28:42 GMT
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In article <510@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
writes: 
> By the way---are this 16'' sony's the same ones used on the small
> color Sparcstations?
> 
> The reason I ask is that those have 2 thin black horizontal wires embedded
> in the screen (for stabilization purpose) which are quit visible at close
> range, and rather distracting to some folks.

Every Sony monitor I have seen has had such platinuous wire(s) whatever
the monitors size is. I suggest these have the wires too. Sony's engineers
should invent some better solution to their monitors. These wires put Sonys
otherways nice monitors out of consideration in many cases.

Kari Osmoviita
University of Helsinki
Department of Physiology
Vision Research Laboratory
Finland