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From: swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: line on colour monitor
Keywords: Sony 14in Mac II grey line
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Date: 21 Sep 88 15:53:56 GMT
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>The Sony Trinitron monitors are generally acknowledged to be the
>sharpest available.  If the price for this crispness is a hardly
>noticeable shadow from a stabilizing wire, I may not like it but I'd
>rather have the shadow than eystrain from fuzzy text.

I definitely agree.  What I find discouraging is that no one at the dealer
or at Apple (yes, we called them) ever put it in terms of a tradeoff.
What we heard was "sorry it's just that way."  What I think would have
been the better response to customers is something like:  "in order to
to get the best picture quality we (Apple) have chosen to use Sony
Trinitron monitors.  Inherent in the Trinitron design is the use of
a stabilizing wire which casts a slightly noticeable shadow.  We felt
that the improved picture quality outweighed the negative aspects of the
wire shadow."  Now that would have made me a happier customer and
would have saved all of you from hearing me bitch.


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Scott Wilson		arpa: swilson@sun.com
Sun Microsystems	uucp: ...!sun!swilson
Mt. View, CA