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Philip McDunnough writes
> In article <6116@rosie.NeXT.COM> Ross_Werner@next.com writes:
> 
> [Flickering, ND and the new 17" NeXT monitor]
> 
> Is the new 17" monitor an officially supported product with the NeXT  
Dimension?
> 
> Philip McDunnough
> philip@utstat.toronto.edu
> 

Seemingly so.  My 17" FIMI got whomped so hard in the process of being shipped  
from LA to Boston and then to Paris that the shadow mask is no longer  
completely attached internally, so I kinda have no choice but to go get a  
replacement.  By the time I could get the insurance investigation filed, the  
FIMI had been removed from the pricelist and so I called NeXT and asked them  
what the chances were of using the new monitor with my NeXTdimension.

Apparently it works pretty well.  As was told to me maybe 6 weeks ago, if you  
have an Olde Systeme like mine, Olde '040, Olde ND, Olde SoundeBoxe, Olde  
Keyboarde, &c, the display works but with the following quirk: the active area  
of the display is shifted offcenter, I forget exactly howmuch, maybe 3/16" if  
memory serves, and I forget to which side.

This I can live with.  Right now the monitor is really limping, there is no way  
you could use it to produce colored imagery that wouldn't look ridiculous on a  
correct system (there are big blotchy shadows in various places on the screen,  
in one quadrant the whites are cyanotic, and so on).  For me, 3/16" of an inch  
seems like a pretty small price to pay to fix this situation.  If your monitor  
is working as well as a decently-tuned FIMI can manage, and what you want to  
fix is the lack of the Sony sharpness, maybe 3/16" is too annoying.

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I have been talking to NeXT about paying to get my ND refurbed from NTSC to  
PAL, which is apparently doable, but you have to ship the board to the factory,  
where they do a PAL (as in the silicon, not the TV standard) replacement, and  
then do a bunch of tuning and calibration, presumably on that equipment rack  
whose picture was in the last NeXTWORLD.  Probably this is wishful thinking,  
but maybe an old ND could be factory-adjusted to shift back that 3/16"?  I must  
be dreaming.  If I ever find out more about either the price of the NTSC/PAL  
change, or the possibility of eliminating the 3/16", I'll post something.