Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!simmons From: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Third Party Monitors Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 03:03:40 GMT References: <9104251931.AA13223@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1991Apr27.213554.12588@math.ucla.edu> Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin,Madison., NEEP Department Lines: 60 In-reply-to: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu's message of 27 Apr 91 21:35:54 GMT In article <1991Apr27.213554.12588@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: Path: doug.cae.wisc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohiostate.edu!usc!uclacs!uclama!pico!barry From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Date: 27 Apr 91 21:35:54 GMT References: <9104251931.AA13223@cheops.cis.ohiostate.edu> Sender: news@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research Lines: 23 In article crum@fcom.cc.utah.edu (Gary Crum) writes: > >The NeXT 17" Phillipsmade display may be a lot less expensive than the Sony >that NeXT orginally displayed with its color products, but the output >of the Phillips display seems awfully washedout to me. (Once again, >it is rumored that on 10May, the list price of the NeXT 17" display will >drop from $3000 to $2000, and that decrease will supposedly be accompanied by >a $1000 increase in the price of the Color NeXTstation. Too bad.) I saw the Phillips monitor last week. Its seems sharp near the center, but the edge regions of the monitor are pretty fuzzymenus in the upper right are nearly illegible, for examplelike looking at text close up on a TV screen. I wonder if maybe improved focusing could fix this? Definitely a mistake if NeXT _increases_ the price of this product. Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet) I have a monochrome and a color slab side by side here in my office. The color monitor is definitely very fuzzy for text. So fuzzy that i can't use the color for anything like edit/emacs stuff that involves text, without eyestrain after a while. I was warned about this by a few people, didn't belive them. Well its true, i was wrong and they were right. I would not recommend anyone buy a color slab if they will be doing a lot of stuff where they have to look at text for any length of time(like programming). The color is great however. Unfortunately i do a lot of email/programming/news reading. Unless i want to impress people with the neat color, or look at some gif or tif images, or use a draw program that supports color, i use the mono slab. We have a color Sparcstation next door (Sony Trintron monitor i think), and that monitor is much, much better than the NeXT color monitor. It's amazing having the two monitors side by side. The mono is so much sharper (it is the best monitor that i have ever used), while the color monitor is among the worse (if you have to look at text). Only the original Dec color monitors(before they switched to the Sony monitor) was worse. =============================================================================== Internet: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu Othernet: simmons@hoofers.lake.mendota According to the HitchHikers guide to the galaxy, the one thing we *cannot* afford to have is a sense of perspective. ===============================================================================