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From: bcase@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: line on colour monitor
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Date: 19 Sep 88 18:18:46 GMT
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> What I want to know is is it possible to build a monitor of the same
> (otherwise) quality without the line.  If it is, then why didn't Apple
> have a fit with Sony just the way we did with Apple?  I think it would
> ...
>a) Yes, it is possible. Conrac, Barco, and others have been doing it
>   for decades.
>b) Probably because they were cheaper than Conrac and Barco, and
>   sometimes you get what you pay for.

Oh please!  I can't believe this!
1) ALL SONY TRINITRON CRTs HAVE "THE LINE."  LARGER ONES HAVE TWO LINES!  Yes,
even the commercial, NTSC trinitron TVs (you have to look close) have the
lines.  The line(s) is a wire needed to maintain the shape of the shadow mask,
which is cylindrical instead of shperical.
2) I realize that monitor quality is subjective, but if you compare the Apple
color monitor to any other, you will probably see that it is as good or better
than anything else available (although I have never seen a Zenith flat
tension mask monitor connected to a Mac II, it may be pretty good).  Don't
believe me, check with MacUser this month (or maybe it is some other Mac mag,
but there is a mag with a color-monitor-comparison-and-evaluation article).
Apple has some of the most stringent quality standards in the industry.  I am
100% sure that if another monitor were available with the overall quality of
the Sony and without "the line," Apple would have gone with it.

Don't for a minute think that Apple chose the Sony monitor based soley on
price!!  It may come as a shock, but there are lots of buyers out there who
will simply walk out the door if you start quibbling over a couple hunderd
bucks.  What they want is the highest possible quality, in the largest sense
of the word, combined with buying, billing, delivery, and sevicing ease.  That
is they, want to buy high quality stuff from *Apple.*  Apple has a
responsibility to provide the uninitiated but demanding computer user with
one-stop shopping.  If you don't like what Apple provides, then you are free
to go to your junk shop and buy a "lineless" monitor.  That's one of the things
the Mac II is all about.  Quit yer bitchin'.  Read the MacUser article.
(I have a SuperMac 16" Trinitron system with two lines, and I *love* it!)