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From: don@pecnos.UUCP (Don Hopkins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Color Monitor Recommendations Sought
Message-ID: <153@pecnos.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 08:51:46 EST
Article-I.D.: pecnos.153
Posted: Tue Feb 25 08:51:46 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 04:48:33 EST
References: <205@oberon.UUCP> <1987@uwmacc.UUCP> <1371@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Organization: Perkin-Elmer SSD, Tinton Falls, N.J.
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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
> 
> 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.
> -- 
Zenith Data Systems makes a 13" monitor that has composite video
and RGB direct drive inputs. The model number is ZVM-135. List price
is $599 but I have seen it in the $450 dollar range. Features include:
25 line by 80 column display (640x200 pixels); 20 megahertz bandwidth;
composite video loop-thru; front access controls; green screen only switch
for easier text viewing. it is available at local Heathkit stores.

We have found it to be quite good for both computer and VCR viewing.

Name........:  Donald F. Hopkins
Company.....:  CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (A Perkin-Elmer Company)
US Mail.....:  106 Apple St., Tinton Falls, N.J. 07724
Phone.......:  201-758-7268
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Disclaimer: The above opinions are only mine and not that of my employer.