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From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Interlaced monitors
Message-ID: <5137@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 91 12:41:31 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <27D66A39.5235@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
> Posted: 7 Mar 91 16:28:41 GMT
> 
> Org.  : McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> Person: Carl Riehm
> 
> Just in case people following this discussion about the flicker problem with
> interlaced monitors think that all users of them are suffering, let me
> say that I use 2 such, including the machine that I'm using right now, and
> there is absolutely no flicker at all.  They are both IBM 8514 monitors, one
> of them the color monitor and the other the large monochrome. Furthermore
> I know 3 other people that use them, and they do not notice any flicker
> either.  One of the reasons I think, is that these monitors have a slowly
> reacting phosphorus that minimizes the flicker.  The other may be that
> flicker
> is noticeable to some people and not to others, at least that was mentioned
> recently in an article in PC Magazine (I think it was PCMag..).
> Carl Riehm.

     Seiko monitors such as the CM-1440 and CM-1450 also use a longer
persistance phosphor.  In 1024x768 interlaced there is virtually no flicker
(perhaps a slight quiver on single pixel width horizontal lines if you have the
right colors and look closely).
.
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Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    a752@mindlink.UUCP