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The $1625 is mail order, since while I was there he quoted it out
over the phone several times. His system price for:
1 meg A500
Amiga 1084 0r 2002 monitor
external drive (Amiga or ProDrive)
$1025 for the total package. It's a pretty good price.
The additional prices I paid were....
MicroWay deinterlacer: $495
Princeton Ultrasync 800 x 600: $569
NEC 2nd internal floppy: $155
Seagate 65 meg & C Ltd SCSI $800
I don't know if this is the best price, but I did get to make sure
that all the pieces played together before I brought them home.
It's been working great... the Seagate is fast and quiet.
All in all, I'm very pleased, especially with the display quality.
Ed.
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| The Princeton Ultrasync is a multiscan type monitor. It can handle
horizontal scan rates from 15.75 KHz to 45 KHz, and verticle scan
rates to 70 Hz. ~rI hope these figures are accurate; I'm quoting
from memory, since the paperwork is under 400 pounds of boxes and
cartons. :^)
The standard Amiga video output is 15.75 KHz, which I believe is
the NTSC standard. The Princeton will work fine at the frequency,
but don't expect the 400 line mode flicker to go away. That problem
is caused by the Amiga's use of an interlaced display to provide
NTSC compatibility and to minimize loss of clock cycles available
to the CPU, as Randy Meyers so eloquently explained elsewhere.
The reason I needed a multiscan monitor, and why I suggest that
people who are in the market for a new monitor check them out, is
that the MicroWay de-interlacer board that I also bought combines
two interlaced frames in it's own RAM, and then converts the video
signal to a 31.5 KHz scan rate. So, the MicroWay board absolutely
needs a multiscan, or at least a 31.5 KHz fixed scan rate monitor.
The Princeton has some nice features; for one, it's absolutely
beautiful to look at, ergonomically. It comes with a slick tilt
and swivel stand. The screen is etched to reduce glare. There
is also a button on the side which can toggle the display tint from
amber, paper white, blue, and green, so you can select whichever
mode you're most comfortable with.
There is also a button on the side which basically compresses or
expands the screen display area. You can place a black border around
the display, or you can expand it horizontally and vertically so
that text goes right up the the plastic bezel.
You can easily expand or compress the image horizontally and vertically
with knobs on the back.
I had my brother-in-law, an Apple employee/snob extraordaniare,
over for a look. Over the phone, he was emphatically convinced
that an Amiga could never approach a Mac for display quality. He
has an SE and a color Mac II at home. He sheepishly admitted that
the display was as good as the Mac II. I think it's better. I
have my color settings set up similar to a Mac, with some light
tinting for color registers 3 and 4. It's like looking at a piece
of paper. No kidding.
On the negative side, the screen is curved in both planes, unlike
the Sony, which is only curved in the verticle plane, or the Zenith,
which is a flat as pancake. I'd check out the Sony for myself,
since it's universally praised, and does have a slightly tighter
dot pitch (.26 mm vs. .28). However, every Sony I've ever seen,
and I've owned two of them, suffer from a slight pincushion effect,
where the verticle screen borders are bend inwards a tad. The
Princeton has no such effect.
I paid $569 for the Princeton, but I've seen mail-order prices as
low as $500 in Computer Shopper. Monitor tastes are a pretty personal
thing, so I'd always recommend looking before you buy.
Ed.
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| The KV1311CR from Sony is not a multiscan type monitor. The price
of $500. is high. Lechmere often has them on sale for less...unless
the yen/dollar shift has driven prices higher.
The KV1311CR used to be 'the monitor of choice' for the Amiga, because
of it's excellent display and capabilities. It's also a television
with a remote control. I've had mine for two years, and am still
delighted with its performance.
If you are looking for jitter-free hi-res images, you will still
need a long persistance monitor or a multiscan monitor combined
with a de-interlacing board, or a good pair of dark glasses. I
have the brighness turned down on mine when using Professional Page
and the flicker is minimal. The Professional Page display is black
on white, so screen flicker would normally be at it's worst.
Randy
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| re: .12--
The resolution numbers don't say all that needs to be said about
monitor quality, by a long ways. You should do a side-by-side
comparison of monitors before buying, no matter what their specs.
By the way, which Lechmere did you have this experience at? I want
to avoid it.
John Sauter
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| re: <<< Note 1321.12 by ANGORA::JANZEN "Tom LMO2/O23 296-5421" >>>
-< monitor madness >-
:Also, Memory Location says the modulator was $59 last week and is $79 this week,
:and they're out.
:Tom
I was at Memory Location on Thu. 4/21 and I thought I saw 5-6 of
these with the price marked $59. I could be confused, I wasn't
really looking for a modulator, but it might be worth another
call.
<JWH>
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