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Daniel West wrote:
> The 19 inch monitors on the market at the moment are very poor performers
> I'm afraid.  They don't have good tubes so the extra size doesn't even
> bring them up to the level of a good 17 inch like Sony, CTX or ADI which
> represent the best models available (all implementing Trinitron Tubes I
> might add).

I'm supprised at this, I would have though the 19" being a new size
that they would have used the newer tube technologies.

> For 1200x1024 you can get very good performance from a top of the range
> 17inch, they will boast 1600x1200 but take this with a large pinch of
> salt, what they can display and what you would want to look at are two
> totally different things.

Well I'm quite happy with 1600x1200 on my AKF85 (well the refresh
could be a bit better but thats my VIDCs limit). Addmittedly this is
down to the larger a-a fonts on the RISC OS desktop, you could never
use it for Windows at this res due to the non a-a fonts with 1 pixel
wide strokes.

So I dont need a fantastic top of the range monitor, as I can usually
get away with one step up from what it is spec'd at. With Phoebe I'm
likely to be running at 1152x896x32, 1600x1200x16 and something like
2048x1536x8. I want about the same physical dots per inch at 2048x1526
as I have at 1600x1200 on the 17", so this probably does mean a 21".

So anyone recommend any 21"'s? Make sure you quote prices, as after
Pheobe and Peanut the Acorn gold card is going to be a bit stressed!

---druck