Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!decwrl!uunet!orca!javelin.es.com!blgardne From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: 1950 vs. Nec3D Message-ID: <1991Mar17.232412.4615@javelin.es.com> Date: 17 Mar 91 23:24:12 GMT References: <1991Mar15.163126.22400@javelin.es.com> <83@hdwr1.medar.com> Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation Lines: 55 jseymour@medar.com (James Seymour) writes: >In article <1991Mar15.163126.22400@javelin.es.com> blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com writes: >>andrewsr@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes: >>>I am considering either the C= 1950 monitor or the Nec multisync 3D. >>Nearly anything would be a better choice than the A1950 in my opinion. >>CBM makes some great computers, but they always go for the bottom of the >>barrel when shopping for display vendors. The A1950 is made by AOC, a >>middle-to-low quality for middle-to-low price vendor. >I have to disagree with Blain on his evaluation of the 1950 vs. the NEC >3D. Keep in mind that I am a *very* new Amiga owner, and my personal >experience with graphics and graphics/high-resolution monitors is about >nil. Monitors are of course a very personal decision, what one person likes, another may despise. However on the issue of quality, the record of the A1950 and A1080x/A1084/A2002 speaks for itself. I'd buy anything from Sony, NEC, Mitsubishi, or any other established display vendor before I'd buy a CBM monitor. Any extra cost is money well spent. Other than reliability, things to consider are video bandwidth, phosphor dot pitch (both will greatly affect image quality), color convergence (is a white line white, or does it have color fringes?), pincushion (geometric distortion: are straight lines straight, or bowed), high voltage regulation (does the image size "bloom" when the image switches from dark to light?) and phosphor type (persistance, color intensity). Of course the only valid way to judge these for yourself is to look at the displays first hand, prefferably side-by-side. Unfortunatly this is not always an option. Personally I own or have owned the following: NEC Multisync II (JC-1401P3A), Amiga A1080 (1986 era), A1080 (1989 era), Sony CPD-9001, Sony CPD-1302 and a Mitsubishi C-3919. I've had first-hand experience with a number of others, ranging from the A1084 and A1950, to 19" displays by Fimi, Ikegami and Mitsubishi. That's hardly of comprehensive list of all the displays available on the market, but it's been enough to open my eyes, and spoil me for high quality displays. Of the 13" multisync displays, I'd pick the Sony CPD-1302 (brilliant colors, nothing else comes close, plus good performance in the other areas), then the NEC 3D (overall good, but I like the Sony's color), Mitsubishi Diamond Scan (good, but colors seem a bit flat, the only one I've seen with both composite and RGB inputs), NEC Multisync II (not bad, but lousy H.V. regulation), and dead last, the A1950 (worst dot pitch and bandwidth of the bunch, poor H.V. regulation, poor convergence, lousy quality). If you've never seen anything better, the CBM monitors look nice, but you owe it to youself to look at what else is out there before you spend several hundred bucks. -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com or ...dsd.es.com!javelin!blgardne DoD #0046 My other motorcycle is a Quadracer. BIX: blaine_g Anticipation, anticipation, is making me late, is keeping me waiting.