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> > Davlinds@mktres.demon.co.uk "David Lindsay" writes:
> > I understand that the new standard for monitors will require them to 
> > cope with video or MPEG 2.  Any idea how these 2 cope with the new 
> > speed and detail required.

Are you *sure* you don't mean graphics cards?

o If it is graphics cards, then it's by add-in card options for
  various models, affording various levels of quality. I still haven't
  worked out why people spend 400ukp on a Video, 350-450ukp on a TV
  which could cause an eclipse and then try to watch video on PCs ;)

o Monitors will cope well with such, they'll sit there & yawn. 
  Probably power off out of boredom.

Quality is largely dependent on the compresion etc used and partly
on the quality of the video decoding etc, not the monitor per se.

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PS. The person who was thinking about bkup-devices on the Evesham PC:
    Try a Zip (some find not so reliable), JAZZ or Panasonic PD drive.
    o The PD drive is admittedly anaesthetising at 650MB optical
      cartridge *writing*, but it's an ok 4x CD-Rom as well. It is 
      SCSI and ~ 366-396ukp ex VAT. Cartridges are ~33ukp for 650MB.
    o Only other alternatives are the Travan tape drives, which I 
      can't help but read as Trabant.
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PPS. Re (E)IDE vs. SCSI CD drives:
o SCSI ones are best fitted to a Bus-Mastering SCSI card, eg, NCR
  810/815 (37/43ukp) which has the benefit over (E)IDE of lower CPU
  load during data transfers. If you're playing Video, then using
  60% of your CPU for P.I.O. (EIDE) transfers doesn't leave much for 
  working on the data (ie, decompressing video) afterwards.

  Win95 isn't quite so brain-dead it doesn't know what to do with 
  bus-mastering, but NT & OS/2 drool over it. W4WG/3.1 is clueless.

You may wish to put the $ somewhere else however, eg, RAM, s/w, 9017E.
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Julian AF Bradbury           Ergonomist; Human Factors & IT Specialist
Ergonomics, VDU & IT FAQs                 http://webzone1.co.uk/www/3b