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- From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
- Subject: Re: Pixel line on 14" Color Monitor on Purpose? Help!
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- This faint line is the price you pay for the excellent resolution. The
- grid of wires that creates the "mask" for .26 mm resolution run vertically
- and this is the supporting "crossbar" that keeps them from a-janglin.
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- A few companies have eliminated this minor annoyance by incorporating a
- new material called "Invar" into the traditional shadow mask apperature
- grill used on all the lower resolution monitors (NEC, ect.). Although
- this new material achieves a finer grid, and thereby a comparable dot-pitch
- to the Trinitron, monitors which use it still use three seperate color
- beams. Three beams are more difficult to focus on a particular point,
- requiring a greater screen curvature. Perhaps this is partially responsible
- for a frequently reported "grainier" appearence.
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- If you consider the alternatives ($, less focus, ect.), you may be less
- annoyed.
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- Sorry if I made any technical errors, but hey, what am I, the
- kid from the Encyclopedia commercial ?
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- Cheers,
-
- Jim
- J. Graham
- Biology and Chemistry
- Indiana University -Bloomington
-