Re: filmscanners: Monitor recommendation

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@ameritech.net>]

There is an excellent discussion of this at
http://www.pctechguide.com/06crtmon.htm

I have a Sony Trinitron 19" myself and am very pleased with it.

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Snyder" <jimsnyder@insight.rr.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Monitor recommendation


| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Martin Greene" <camerabuggy@earthlink.net>
| 
| 
| > on 12/4/01 7:20 AM, JackG at jackg@poboxes.com wrote:
| >
| > > I have always liked Sony products, but the horizontal lines in the
| Trinitron
| > > tubes that you see on the screen are certainly bothersome.
| > >
| >
| > The horizontal lines are intrinsic to all Trinatron and Mitsubishi tubes.
| I
| > barely am aware of them and do not feel they interfere with viewing and
| > working with Photoshop at all.
| >
| The horizontal lines are a design feature of the Trinitron monitors. Instead
| of an Invar mask, or other device, they use a grating that uses two
| horizontal threads to align the vertical ones giving you your dot pitch. I
| never notice them because I know why they are there and have tuned them out
| as white noise. I would rather have a superior monitor with two
| imperceivable horizontal lines than a poor monitor without.
| 
| Jim Snyder
|