Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!sun!thetone!swilson From: swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: line on colour monitor Keywords: Sony 14in Mac II grey line Message-ID: <69350@sun.uucp> Date: 21 Sep 88 15:53:56 GMT References: <4559@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <7643@boring.cwi.nl> <68764@sun.uucp> <585@palladium.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: swilson@sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 20 >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. -- Scott Wilson arpa: swilson@sun.com Sun Microsystems uucp: ...!sun!swilson Mt. View, CA