Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!botter!ark!Patrick From: Patrick@ark.cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SC1224 MONITOR-NEW STYLE Message-ID: <872@ark.cs.vu.nl> Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 19:40:11 EST Article-I.D.: ark.872 Posted: Mon Jan 5 19:40:11 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 19:26:12 EST References: <870103013827.000015ED.AJZJ.MA@UMass> <9999@cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP> Reply-To: Patrick@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 40 In article <9999@cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP> pett@socrates.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Eric Pettersen) writes: >In article <870103013827.000015ED.AJZJ.MA@UMass> RNEWTON@UMass.BITNET writes: >>Feedback please. We have recently been trying to add more color 1040ST >>systems here at UMASS and have made a depressing discovery - the new-style >>SC1224 color monitor is seriously inferior to its predecessor. ... >>................ Can anyone recommend another monitor and advise on ways >>to connect it to the 1040? And perhaps its time to boycott these cheap >>replacements we're being offered? Atari says the specs are the same - >>let your eyes be the judge. If you've never seen the old type, find one >>and compare. You'll be shocked. (and then realize you've been had!) >> Rick Newton, Digital Photographic Service, UMass, Amherst > >Yes, feedback please! I am contemplating purchasing a color monitor and >am not looking forward to being disappointed (my friend has an early color >monitor). Is it true that the problem is mainly that the monitor is not >adjusted correctly in the factory (or false)? What *are* the alternatives? > > Eric Pettersen > UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Ok, here's feedback: I use a Sony KX-14CP1 monitor and to summarize its behaviour: GREAT. Although I'm not sure the monitor is obtainable in the USA (or maybe under a different 'label'), I think it's well worth looking into, because it simply is a jewel of a monitor. The facts: - Black Trinitron tube (high contrast) - Resolution: manual doesn't say, but more than the ST can give for sure! - Scart input for RGB signal (analog) - Video input - RGB TTL input (for PC [?]) - Audio output (mono) Costs: about $700 {I have no connection to Sony whatsoever, except -ofcourse- being a customer}