Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!mikec From: mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Third Party Monitors Message-ID: <1991Apr28.132402.20336@wam.umd.edu> Date: 28 Apr 91 13:24:02 GMT References: <9104251931.AA13223@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: wor In article crum@fcom.cc.utah.edu (Gary Crum) writes: >Thanks, Morgan (Morgan D. Wise, wisem@stat3.byu.edu who is apparently >not going to have e-mail access for a while), for that very well-written >article. > >The NeXT 17" Phillips-made 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 washed-out to me. (Once again, >it is rumored that on 10-May, 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 have to say, as one who sells Philips monitors (note the spelling) that I'm perplexed at the NeXTStation Color's lack of contrast. In my experience, Philips ALWAYS has better color and contrast than Sony. The Color display really disappointed me. MikeC -- --------------------------------------------------------- Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland --------------------------------------------------------- - Celibacy is a curable condition -