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- From: cgould@rho.us.oracle.com (Colin A. Gould)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Best monitor for CV64?
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 22:18:29 GMT
- Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
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- In article <4dgpbe$acc@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> creighto@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Creighton) writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- >I'd like to know which monitor YOU would advise me to buy
- >for my CyberVision64/4MB.
- >
- >I'm not sure yet if I should buy 17" or 20" or maybe even 21".
- >
- >What do you think, and more important: which model?
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >oliver
- >
-
- I'd recommend buying a good 17"; 20" monitors are significantly more
- expensive, and while they make 1600x1200 more comfortable to view :-)
- 1024x768 etc. is fine on a 17". You want to get a high-quality monitor as
- it will definitely make a difference in viewing comfort...a waste of the
- nice CV card to view it on some fuzzy no-name PC multisync :-)
-
- In terms of a particular brand or model, I have been very happy with my
- monitor for my 2MB CV64, I bought an Idek/Iiyama VisionMaster MF-8617A.
-
- The Idek is high quality with a lot of the high-end features (Energy Star,
- digital controls & preferences for each screen res, LCD display of screen
- freqs & controls, 1600x1200 NI max res @ ~70Hz refresh, .26" dot pitch,
- 135Mhz bandwidth, etc.) yet is significantly lower priced than other
- monitors such as the NEC, Sony and Nanao. I liked it better than the Mag
- and Viewsonics, and was about the same price ($750 street price here in
- California.) I usually use 1024x768 at around 80Hz vertical refresh, I
- think that's 55Khz horiz, off my cybervision, it's rock steady. My
- 1280x1024 res is I think 70Hz...can't remember offhand. In any case, the
- monitor handles more than the CV64 can throw at it :-)
- One nice thing I like about it is that it will go into Energy Star sleep
- modes if the screen is completely black; that helps since I don't have any
- DPMS-supporting screen blankers on the Ami yet.
-
- (BTW this is the newer, high-quality Idek, which does not go down to 15Hz
- vert; there was an older model which went to 15Hz NTSC/PAL modes, but was
- not as sharp. Since I have a 3000 w/ display enhancer, I don't care about
- 15Hz modes...)
-
- End of sales pitch :-) (I'm not affiliated w/ Idek/Iiyama at all, just a
- satisfied customer trying to spread the word...they're not as well known
- and sometimes hard to find.)
-
- Colin Gould
- cgould@us.oracle.com
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