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From: cyc2@sword.bellcore.com (Chung Yu Chen)
Newsgroups: rec.video,misc.consumers,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Proton Monitors, Anyone?
Message-ID: <534@sword.bellcore.com>
Date: 26 Dec 89 16:10:26 GMT
References: <4880002@hpnmdla.HP.COM> <4880007@hpnmdla.HP.COM> <28450@amdcad.AMD.COM> <17854@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <28506@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: cyc2@sword.bellcore.com.UUCP (Jason Chen)
Organization: Bellcore, Red Bank NJ
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In article <28506@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:

>The readers of these groups may also be interested to know that at the
>last Comdex there were a number of Taiwanese showing 19" VGA monitors.
>They said they'd be cheaper than the 16" monitors that have been
>available because they used TV tubes! 
>
This statement implies that monitor tubes are supposed to be
different from TV tubes. I am not in this line of business, so I
don't know for sure. But I always thought that the difference
between a monitor and a TV is in the front end signal processing
circuitry.  The tubes should be basically the same. Can anyone
explain why they should be different? What is the disadvantage if you
use TV tubes in monitors?

Jason Chen