Re: Best LCD for IIGS

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> Charlie wrote:
>> "Drew" <GoggleDrew@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Still on the hunt for an LCD that will work with the GS, so decided to
>>> buy a Samsung 940MW which i thought would work ok (from posts on forum
>>> etc), though on plugging a RGB Scart cable into it i get the same
>>> focus/motion blur when parts of the screen change exactly the same as
>>> the SM-2032MW I tried. Picture is stable and colours look ok, just
>>> doesn't seem to cope very well when things change i.e opening menu
>>> etc... any idea why this would be and is it something i can fix via
>>> the RGB cable?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance...
>>> Drew
>>
>> Drew,
>>
>> I use a Samsung 940MW with Roger Johnstone's (Vintageware) RGB-SCART 
>> cable. There is a slight banding (vertical lines) where two differ colors 
>> meet.  I have always believed that the motion blur you are seeing was the 
>> effect of this banding when you move something on the screen.  Looking at 
>> it again after reading your post, I'm not so sure. The trail following 
>> the mouse is longer than one line (considerably).  You can see it best on 
>> my machine when you open a window in the finder and run the mouse back 
>> and forth over the striped area of the title bar.  I did notice that you 
>> can actually see the mouse arrow change from fuzzy to sharp when you 
>> stop.  This indicates to me that there is some kind of delay in 
>> synchronizing that is way too long. Still for me this is the best option, 
>> I know of, since I keep both my PC and my IIgs connected to Samsung 940MW 
>> all the time and can even view both on a split screen.
>
> Maybe you are seeing artifacts of digital processing in the monitor.
>
> Since NTSC-rate video must be significantly upsampled to fill a modern
> LCD monitor, it's likely that some filtering and edge enhancement is
> done, at least for slowly moving or static images.
>
> Sophisticated monitors (more all the time) even do frame-to-frame
> interpolations, deinterlacing, and 3:2 pulldown processing (when
> it thinks it applies--like when two successive fields are identical).
>
> Sometimes you can use menus to turn these off, and sometimes not...
>
> -michael

Well "sometimes not..." seems to apply here.  I've tried the meager amount 
of video settings with no real difference.

Charlie