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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
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Posted: Mon Jan  5 19:40:11 1987
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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}