Re: Re:Thoughts on SecondSight

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article <5M2cc7o.tdon@delphi.com>, Tom O'Neill <tdon@delphi.com> writes...
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>"Someone@Somewhere" <eaeu899@taurus.oac.uci.edu> writes:
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>>able to use a VGA/SVGA monitor. Although Applecolor monitor is very clear 
>>and gives adequate quality, frankly, I don't think it's good enough. My 
>>eyes grow so tired of it just looking at it for about ten minutes. (don't 
>>know that's because of the monitor but a VGA monitor don't give me as 
>>much trouble).
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>you might want to have a look at the specs for the dpi on the AppleColor
>monitor...anything over .31 will kill your eyes in a very short time...
>I seem to recall the AppleColor monitor was substantially over .31

	The AppleColor RGB has a dot pitch of .37mm, and must use interlacing
to display 400 lines of (vertical) resolution. Speaking of the monitor, has
anyone else noticed that screens manufactured from 1986 through late 1988 are
superior to those from 1989 through 1992? The picture tube on older screens
have a _much_ darker black matrix. For this reason colors look sharper and
more vivid on older screens. The CRTs are both manufactured by Mitsubishi, but
for some reason they used a lesser quality (IMO) picture tube in later years.
Older screens have a true black screen, newer ones (1989 and up) have something
closer to grey. Compare two monitors side by side and you'll see...

Mitchell Spector
m_spect@vega.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca