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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: Sony monitors
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.192838.29012@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 90 19:28:38 GMT
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In article <3327.2713d8da@cc.helsinki.fi>, osmoviita@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
|> 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.
I agree the lines are annoying, but they can get away with it as long as
other aspects of their screens are so much better than the competition. 
I'd much rather live with a couple of barely visible lines than this horribly
unfocussed screen I'm using now on a DECstation.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu