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Re: Monitor driving me nuts

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From: Grimly Fiendish
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:59
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"Peter Boulding" <pjb@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 13:56:42 -0000, "Duncan"
> <duncansmith99@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I have just come back from Staples after scrutinising CRT and TFT and am
> >still not sure whether I feel I will get used to it. I take some of your
> >guys comments that after years of looking at Convex CRTS my eyes may need
a
> >period of readjustment. However I have worked on quite few differing
> >computers and never found this problem before.
>
> Nor would you unless you've been given a flat screen to use
> before (unlikely as yet in a commercial environment).
>
All the monitors in our sales office are LCD's, we have to make do with
damaged/faulty 14" standard ones :-(

> >Bugger -- shall I persevere.
>
> I would: despite experiencing the effect you described on day
> one, I'd find really hard now to go back to a conventional CRT.
>
> Mind you, I was aware of the fact that they're different and that
> some people seem unable to get used to (a) the effect you
> describe and/or (b) the two faint grey horizontal lines that
> flat-screen CRTs always exhibit - one a third of the way up the
> picture, one two thirds; these, though faint, are noticeable
> against a white background, e.g. when text processing. So I drove
> a good distance to my intended supplier's showroom to view one in
> operation before placing my order.
>
Is that on all FST's, i thought that was just the Sony trinitron tube ?
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From: "Grimly Fiendish" <Alien@Sexfiend.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Monitor driving me nuts
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