It's a Diamondtron, AKA Trinitron (Mitsubishi's adaptation of the technology).
This means it's a Aperture Grille type monitor. Aperture grille monitors are
set in vertical lines. It's more or less a sheet of thin vertical wires
dividing the front reactive coatings. The grey lines you are seeing are
horizontal shadows from wires that are holding the vertical wires in place.
This is normal. A 15", 17" have 1, 19", 21" have 2. look on
www.tomshardware.com for more info.
If you didn't want the grey lines, you should have bought a shadow mask or
flatron (LG) monitor. The ups and downs of the various technologies can be
debated. Aperture grille monitors do have the highest brightness and best
colour rendition, however the stripe pitch (spacing between pixels) leaves a
lot to be desired.
I would write more, but I've completely forgotten the specifics. I used to know
a lot about them (I've got a Philips Brilliance 109p4 Trinitron FD monitor)
Regards
Daniel
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Barker
Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 3:39 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Lines on a new monitor?
Dear All
I have just bought a new monitor (my son needed my old one for his new
G4 for college), a 19 inch Mitsubishi Diamondtron. But it has 2 lines
showing across the screen, 6cm (2.5 inches) from the top and the bottom
of the viewing area. Jon Mitchell and Jason Gidden told me that their
large flat screens at work had similar lines, but can anyone explain
why this should be? Admittedly the lines are pretty faint, perfectly
straight and only about 2 pixels wide, but I do want my monitor to
start life in full fettle...
OM content: I bought a new monitor so that I could check my scans taken
with my OM4. It has sRGB which I hope will reduce inconsistencies in
colour spaces.
Chris
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