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From: millernw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What is "pitch" on a CRT
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.171036.14822@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 17:10:36 GMT
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From article <1991Feb6.234713.17376@odetics.com>, by frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow):
> Hi,
> 
> I am planning on buying a Super VGA board and CRT soon.  I keep seeing
> things about dot pitch with numbers like .3? and .2?.  What is pitch?
> I gather lower numbers are better, but what does it really mean to me
> when I look at the CRT?

	From what I understand, the pitch of a monitor is the distance be-
tween the pixels.  The best pitches that are commonly found on the market
are in the .28mm range or so.  A lower pitch is definately better.  A
hypothetical 15-foot diagonal 1024x768 monitor would have a pretty lousy
pitch (also called dot pitch), while a 10" 1024x768 monitor would have an
excellent dot-pitch, but then you'd be straining the eye.  I'd recommend a
14" monitor with a .28mm dot pitch.  If I'm mistaken in any of the above,
please correct me.

 
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