From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: What the 17" monitor reviews never tell you Date: 22 Aug 1992 06:15:45 GMT
Marc Unangst (mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us) wrote:
: In article <6015@pdxgate.UUCP> brians@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Brian Smith) writes:
: >the NEC 5FG is *wonderful* at 17 inches. There is no moire patterning,
:
: This is somewhat of a misstatement. The NEC 5FG front bezel only
: measures 15.5" corner-to-corner, which means it's a 15.5-inch monitor,
: not a 17-inch monitor as NEC would like you to believe. This isn't so
: surprising, I guess, considering that the 4FG -- which is supposedly a
: 15-inch monitor -- only measures 13.5" corner-to-corner. I guess NEC
: has never heard of truth in advertising...
Don't they make those measurements corner-to-corner with the cover OFF?
No front bezel to cover part of the CRT.
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