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Article #2974Re: Monitor driving me nuts
From: Grimly Fiendish
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:59
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:59
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"Peter Boulding" <pjb@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote in message news:p84a4v89roed1ef2prnsderopnp6e1q216@4ax.com... > 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1068c5,dac421bc1712945d X-Google-Attributes: gid1068c5,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,dac421bc1712945d X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-08 06:59:39 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!not-for-mail From: "Grimly Fiendish" <Alien@Sexfiend.fsnet.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,freeserve.help.misc Subject: Re: Monitor driving me nuts Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:59:35 -0000 Organization: Don't Swear At Me !! Lines: 36 Message-ID: <b2360q$krs$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk> References: <b22hda$v9c$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk> <b232cm$o3f$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk> <p84a4v89roed1ef2prnsderopnp6e1q216@4ax.com> Reply-To: "Grimly Fiendish" <NGcrap@derby95.fsnet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.25.228.150 X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 1044716378 21372 62.25.228.150 (8 Feb 2003 14:59:38 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Feb 2003 14:59:38 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400