[Gllug] OT: recommend place to buy 17" tft monitor

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 15 Dec, Nix wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, adam at thebowery.co.uk said:
> > FWIW, I bought a Iiyama vmpro454 19" crt a few years back at 60% of list
> 
> That was the first flat-fronted monitor I owned; bought new for ~500
> quid seven years ago this week. (Prices have fallen a *long* way since
> then!)
> 
> > price from dabs "B-Grade" stock, I found the complaints forms from the
> > person they had sold it to prior to me in the bottom of the box. They 
> > had complained about "wavy lines when using excel" it took me about 10 
> 
> *boggle*
> 
> (I never get that problem anyway. Black backgrounds are excellent for
> making moire glare and flicker problems vanish. :) )
> 
> > seconds to adjust the Moire and convergance settings to get a perfect 
> > picture. This used to be a common problem in a previous ork-place where 
> > we only gave people Iiyama monitors but the default settings were *so* 
> > bad that they made the monitors look awful, but 30 seconds spent 
> > adjusting the things would make them look absolutely perfect.
> 
> The first thing I ever do with them is adjust them; the default settings
> are, as you say, horrible.
> 
   The problem can even be caused by just placing the monitor on a standard
office desk with its steel frame, but a mu-metal shield around the screen
would be very expensive. Have you noticed the effect that occurs when
another monitor nearby does a degauss?

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Chris Bell

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