Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: COMDEX report Message-ID: <782@neoucom.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 11:21:35 EST Article-I.D.: neoucom.782 Posted: Sun Nov 29 11:21:35 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 03:18:34 EST References: <300@uscacsc.UUCP> <4111@ccicpg.UUCP> <3206@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 67 Keywords: multiscan monitors Summary: I was a ghost writer for the Infoblob Sony Multiscan article I did the technical review for the person who wrote the article on the Sony Multiscan CPD-1302 moinitor that appeared in Infoblob, er. oops.. Infoworld. The Infoblob article was kind of sugared-up with cute language, but was more-or-less true, except as noted below. I hated that article. I about gagged when I read that paragraph about "any dealer will tweak this monitor up if you buy the tech. manual and drag it in..." That simply ain't true. What is true is that the regional Sony service center didn't have the manual which we had ordered from the Sony parts center. The CPD-1302 is a darn nice monitor, even when used with (parish the thot) VGA. If memory serves me right, the dot pitch on the 1302 is 0.26 mm. We have several 1302s in use here at NEOUCOM for some resarch microscopic 3d reconstruction efforts. (Basically using a microscope as a tiny joystick to make 3d wireframe drawings.) We like the 1302 because there is less optical distortion when shooting 35mm shots off the screen. I heard that the CPD-1302 is being discontinued and replaced by the CPD-something else, which is really functuionally about the same. The article gives a somewhat distorted presentation about what I said about the construciton of the CPD-1302. The interior quality of the electronics is much better than such competitors as Taxan. The Sony circuitry is also fiendishly complex. This is typical of Sony and is typical of their inscrutalbe japanese philosophy of electrical engineering. Anybody that has ever [attempted] to fix a trinitron set knwos what I mean. I'd judge that the cost of repairing the Sony would be higher than average, as only a few service centers have the technical expertise to do the work. The Sony, however, is less likely than average to need service because of the better workmanship at the outset. The complex circuitry of the Sony does pay off though with excellent convergence, even at the edges. The out-of-the-box picutre quality of the CPD-1302 was better than any other monitor I have tested. Viturally every of the origianl NEC Multisync I've dealt with (a total of 11) has needed internal adjustment to obtain a tolerable picture. This, of course, would be beyond the capabilities of an average consumer to handle. (I know a lot of the readers here have the necessary skill, but they aren't average consumers.) I recently got the chance to examine the new NEC Multisync II and the NEC 19 inch Multisync. The 40 MHz bandwidth when connecting though the BNC r, g, and b, connectors is impressive. The NEW NECs don't seem to have the poor quality control of the original Multisync. I used the 19 inch Multisync to shoot some pictures for an upcoming magazine article. It required using a type B filter with Ektachrome film to get a reasonable looking color (to cancel a blue shift), but the results were impressive. Unfortunately the big NEC is a bit much for my wallet. By the way, I had to laugh when we ordered the tech ref manual for the 1302. The first time around, Sony sent a manual for a NEC spinwriter printer that had a Sony Label glued over the NEC nameplate. And- I thought Sony and NEC were competitors. I think the best all-around monitor for something like the Amiga is the Mitsubishi Diamond Scan (I forget the model #). If you shop around, you can get the Diamond Scan for just under $US500. The Diamond Scan has an NTSC composite input as well as the usual multisync RGB digital/analog connector. --Bill NEOUCOM (wtm@neoucom.UUCP)19G