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From: xpert@hydro.saic.COM (xpert_news)
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Subject: Re:  How to get 24-bit pictures on DECstation 5000/200PXG?
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Date: 2 Feb 91 00:56:00 GMT
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merritt@max.u.washington.edu write about DecStation 5000 PX's Sony
Monitors:

>- I was quite taken aback to find that the 19" Sony monitor has two dark
> horizontal lines across it (about 1/3 and 2/3 of the way down the screen). I
> thought this was a hardware problem, but after a visit from the field service
> people I was told "They're all like that. That's what makes the Sony monitors
> so good - they use those lines to keep the electron beam precisely in
> register"!  Am I the only one in the world to be disturbed by extra lines
> across my screen? And what about taking photos from the screen (I can't
> afford a separate film recorder) - who wants extra horizontal lines on what's
> supposed to be a high-resolution 24-bit color presentation slide?
> Anyone have any comments on this - like should I give up on it or try to make
> DEC find me a monitor without the extra lines?


	I too am equally annoyed!!!!!  I have had three monitors.
	However, this is not the only place where DEC's engineers have made
    	serious enough judgement errors that after having bought many
	DEC workstations in the past, I may not be willing to buy even one
	in future.

	Another serious problem with the Decstation 5000/PX appears to
	be its extremely poor performance on some imaging applications
	such as the XDataSlice.  For such applications teh 5000/PX is 
	decidedly inferior to a Decstation 3100 rnning MIT's X11R4
	server.

	I have received e-mail message from a dozen users of DS 5000/PX
        from throughout the North America confirming my observations.

	SOme DEC engineers have suggested to me to purchase the
	lower-end  model CX.  I only wish that DEC salespersons had
	told me of about this recommendations


Vijay S. Tripathi                            Internet:
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