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From: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: amiga hi-res
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 09:05:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 09:05:37 1986
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I have hooked my amiga to a Sony PVM1271q monitor, and the results
in hi-res mode are quite impressive. Using DPaint, I drew a number
of horizontal and vertical lines in different colors. Some flicker
is apparent, but by adjusting the brightness and contrast it can
be lowered to a level where it is not objectional. In fact, with
any color lines other than white, the flicker disappears if I move
my head back about 3 feet from the monitor. Of course, white horizontal
lines of one pixel thickness always seem to flicker, but vertical
lines do not, nor do lines of greater thickness. 
The PVM1271Q is a relatively expensive ($1,000 CDN) communications
monitor (capable of decoding NTSC 3.58, NTSC 4.43, PAL, SECAM, accepts
RGB inputs) with a SUPER fine pitch CRT ( .25 mm ). I am quite happy
with DPaint in the lo-res mode as the monitor gives a crisp, rich
looking pictures which are a joy to work with. I have no problem
reading 80 X 25 text on the screen and cannot understand why anyone
. We have done a side by side
comparison with the Sony monitor and a hi-res Conrac hooked to the
Amiga. The Sony came out a winner! The picture was sharper ( perhaps
due to the smaller screen size), brighter and had richer colors than
the much more expensive Conrac.
*** Atari owners, eat your hearts out ***