[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner

2006-02-26 Thread
> Thanks. I had no idea that Viewsonic monitors had trinitron guts > inside of them. > > Scott > > lists wrote: > > >You can still get high quality Trinitrons. Try Viewsonic, which is the > >heir to Nokia's monitor business. I can't stand those two trinitrons The Viewsonic P Series are discontinue

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread lists
The copyright on the word trinitron still lives on, but the patent itself is expired. The buzzword is aperture grille: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_grille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks. I had no idea that Viewsonic monitors had trinitron guts > inside of them. > > Scott > -

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread
Thanks. I had no idea that Viewsonic monitors had trinitron guts inside of them. Scott lists wrote: >You can still get high quality Trinitrons. Try Viewsonic, which is the >heir to Nokia's monitor business. I can't stand those two trinitrons >lines across the screen, so it wasn't an option for m

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread lists
You can still get high quality Trinitrons. Try Viewsonic, which is the heir to Nokia's monitor business. I can't stand those two trinitrons lines across the screen, so it wasn't an option for me. Getting a high quality shadow mask is impossible. Hitachi left the tube business, and they were the sou

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread
Thanks! My old Dell Trinitron is, well, getting old. I'd love a comparable replacement CRT, but I'm not sure where I can find one. Any folks here know a surviving source of decent CRT's? (I'm in US). Thanks! lists wrote: >I have no fist hand knowledge of the lifetime. However, these monitors

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread lists
I have no fist hand knowledge of the lifetime. However, these monitors are used by Cantoo in Berkeley for their customers, i.e. in a service bureau application. You might get them to give you an opinion. http://www.cantoo.com/index.html I certainly wouldn't bug them at lunch time PST, but who knows

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread
What's the typical useful life (daily use, 8+ hours per day) of a monitor like the Lacie you linked to? Thanks! Scott lists wrote: >It's all explained at the link >http://www.dlp.com/ > >They have had DLP TVs for I guess about 8 years. Most electronics stores > carry Samsung DLP TVs. You proba

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread lists
It's all explained at the link http://www.dlp.com/ They have had DLP TVs for I guess about 8 years. Most electronics stores carry Samsung DLP TVs. You probably walked past one and didn't know it had DLP inside. Getting back to LCD for photo use, LaCie and NEC have displays with wide gamuts and

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread Paul Roberts
"Digital Light Processing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLP Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title

[filmscanners] Re: OT: monitors (was Re: Nikon scanner availability)

2006-02-26 Thread lists
CCFT stands for cold cathcode fluorescent tube. It's a difficult to drive (electronically) device if you want long life. There are integrated circuits to drive them, but the external components are critical. With poorly engineered drivers, the tubes blacken on one end then ultimately fail. The bri