Screens of desire
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Graphics and new media developers need larger monitors with quick refresh rates, high resolution, ample display areas and crisp, bright colors. A buyers guide surveys the 20-inch and 21-inch offerings of 22 color monitor vendors. Prices range from around $13,00 to $2,000. All of the monitors support a minimum of 1,600 by 1,200 pixels at 75Hz, some have even higher resolutions. All but a few of them work with both the Macintosh and PCs, although most of them require an adapter for use with the Mac. This buyers guide covers specialist vendors only; most computer vendors also offer monitors of this size. These monitors employ either flat-square shadow mask or cylindrical aperture grille CRTs, which are essential for graphics applications.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1997
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Digitizing images
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Quality color flatbed scanners that scan images in 30- and 36-bit colors and capture resolutions of at least 600dpi range in price from a few hundred dollars to a couple of thousand dollars. The scanner's platen area should be able to handle 8.5-by-14-inch documents, in case documents need to be digitized. HP's scanners have the unusual ability to scan 3D objects. Transparency adapters, for scanning in slides and transparencies, are a useful bundled feature that would cost from $499 to $699 to buy separately. OCR programs and other bundled software can add greatly to a scanner's value.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1998
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Monstrous monitors
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A buyer's guide of large-screen computer monitors is presented. A table with 22 different color monitors is featured. The monitors are compared with each other by categories such as screen size, maximum resolution, screen type, number and type of computer inputs and outputs, loopthrough, TV tuner and price. The monitors range in screen size from 27 inches to 42 inches, and are priced from $899.95 to $11,999.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1998
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