10 May
2001
10 May
'01
8:35 a.m.
What I meant with my remark that it's difficult to
do, is that it's
difficult to
damage a monitor by driving it "all over the map" as you put it. There are
monitors that can be damaged by the absence of an appropriate sync signal.
Those are fixed-frequency types, however, and they've mostly been damaged
already, or they have a home where they are fed the correct signals.
I've certainly seen VGA-type multisync monitors damaged due
to people trying to push the resolutions up beyond what the monitor
was meant to do. Today with all the PnP stuff it's not seen as often
as it was with DOS and the tweaking manually though.
it. I agree, that IF there were such a thing as a
digital-input
monitor, which
may exist, it might take a video signal that's digital in nature. I've said,
however, that I've never seen one, and I've had, not hundreds, but, over a
Looking at to references I have here, I see two monitors
right off the bat that take a TTL signal as input: both the Tandy
CM-1 and VM-1 monitors, not to mention the current crop of DVI LCD's
out there.
Jeff
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