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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: rec.video,misc.consumers,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Proton Monitors, Anyone?
Message-ID: <28570@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 31 Dec 89 22:44:22 GMT
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In article <534@sword.bellcore.com> cyc2@sword.bellcore.com.UUCP (Jason Chen) writes:
|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

What I mean is that 19" TVs are common so the volume of their CRTs is
high. I don't know of too many 16" TVs so 16" VGA monitors have to use
low volume CRTs, hence high cost. As far as I can tell you have to
pay twice the price to go from 14" VGA to 16" VGA.

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