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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Color Monitor Recommendations Sought
Message-ID: <1371@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 17:02:45 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.1371
Posted: Sun Feb 23 17:02:45 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 08:12:05 EST
References: <205@oberon.UUCP> <1987@uwmacc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc. (guest of Ohio State U.)
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Summary:

In <1987@uwmacc.UUCP> demillo@uwmacc.UUCP writes:
>> 
>> We want to get a color monitor which I can use on my computer, and, with
>> the simple flip of a switch, my wife can use to review her video tapes.
>> Something in the 11 - 13" size range is preferred. Oh yes, let's try to
>> keep the prices well under $1000.00

>If you are will to spring about $500, you can purchase the new
>Sony Trinitron monitor. It's a VERY impressive piece of equipment...
>it will allow for high resolution graphics driven by any micro, or
>will allow you to use it as a video tape monitor. The person
>I was talking to at their demo claims that it is capable of buffering
>graphics characters so that you can use the monitor as a videotext 
>system.

Reprinted without permission from PC Magazine, March 25, 1986, page 141:

SONY TRINITRON COLOR TV KV-1131CR

"If this Sony monitor reminds you of a TV, that's because it is a TV.  The
flip of a switch toggles you into digital mode, in which the KV-1131CR is only
a fair color display.  Because of poor contrast, its colors are washed out, a
problem that adversely affects text legibility.  A more serious problem is the
Sony's poor resolution.  The central pixels are elongated rather than circular,
and lines converge more in the corners than they should."

"It is impossible to get a jet-black background."

The review being quoted was a one pager in a group of 13 color monitors
designed to work with the Color Graphics Adapter.  It was the only TV/RGB type
tested.
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