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Colin Smith (colskip@colskip.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <3194f098.813363@news.demon.co.uk>, Matt West
: <matt@tdraft.demon.co.uk> writes
: >Does anyone have any recommendations or magazine reviews for 15"
: >monitors ?
: >I have heard that the Iiyama monitors are meant to be very good.  I
: >see that the Iiyama 15" Vision Master MF-8515F is 259+VAT.  Does
: >anyone have the specifications of this model ?
: >

I don't have the exact spec of the Iiyama 15" (the monitor that I have on my
PC at home). However it is capable of running at about 100 Hz in 640x480,
72 Hz in 800x600 or 70 Hz in 1024x768. You can actually get it to run at 90Hz
in 800x600 but the picture is then a bit smaller, even with the size controls
turned to maximum. It will also work (at a pinch!) at 1152x900 or 1280x1024,
although only at 60 Hz refresh. All these resolutions are non-interlaced.

The controls are:

brightness, contrast		analogue thumbwheel controls
vertical+horizontal size	)
vertical+horizontal position	) digital "up/down" buttons
degauss

There is no control for adjusting the convergence. I think there may be
controls for adjusting barrel/pincushion distortion.

I'm very pleased with my monitor: the sharpness and steadiness of picture
are very good and the convergence of RGB at the corners is better than many
monitors that I've seen. Barrel/pincushion distortion is not a problem.

It seems to cope well if the resolution is changed: the picture fills the
screen in all resolutions and (as far as I can tell with a Diamond card
which blanks the screen briefly when switching between full-screen DOS and
800x600 Windows) the picture doesn't seem to "bounce" as the resolution is
changed.

The monitor is capable of going into energy-saving mode if the card sends the
appropriate signals (lack of horizontal/vertical sync?). In that case, there
is a delay of about 5 seconds when it turns back on.

Although nominally 15", the _visible_ part of the screen is about 14" diagonal -
manufacturers usually quote the size of the tube, including the border which
is hidden by the casing - sneaky!