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From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: high res RGB monitor defect?
Summary: Fine black line is normal
Message-ID: <778@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jun 88 20:06:07 GMT
References: <1651@water.waterloo.edu> <10076@oberon.USC.EDU> <13841@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <13841@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> prince@maui.UUCP (Larry Prince) writes:
>In article <10076@oberon.USC.EDU> robiner@ganelon.usc.edu (Steve) writes:
>
> (In response to query about horizontal line seen on Mac color monitors)
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>The line you see has nothing to do with Macs, or computers, at all.  It is
>an idiosynchracy of Sony Trinitron CRT's.  Check it out for yourself...go
>to your local Circuit City, Fedco, or other department store/home entertain-
>ment center and look at the Sony televisions.  The line is there.
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An interesting sidelight to this:

Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has turned the Sony Trinitron monitor _upside
down_ as compared to its orientation when you buy a Sony television set with a
Trinitron monitor in it.  I suppose this is because Apple thought the thin
black line would be less obtrusive if it were 2/3rds of the way from the top
of the monitor rather than nearer the top of the monitor (where most users
likely spend more time looking).

So, if you go looking for the thin line on a Sony Trinitron TV, don't expect
to see it near the bottom of the screen like on the Apple monitor.  You will
find the line instead near the top, about 1/3rd of the way down.

Jim

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