I have a serious question about FD Trinitron monitor tubes, I recently ordered a CTX PR500F monitor that has Sony's FD Trinitron picture tube in it. Anyway, what I would like to know is, why is there a slight space between each horizontal line on the monitor? You can really see what I mean when you go lower in resolution. For example, like when your in dos prompt and when you look at the letters, it appears that every other horizontal line is missing making the picture not as solid, bright, and clear as it should. Most of the applications I use are about 320*200 to 640*480, this problem strains my eyes and dims the picture, so this is very important to me. I understand that the higher the resolution you go with this monitor the horizontal lines connect together solidly, they also connect together solidly when you shrink the vertical size of the monitor screen even when your at a real low resolution.
If you still don't understand what I'm trying to say, then imagine if we have a resolution of 6*3 pixles on the screen, there would be 3 thin straight solid lines running across the screen horizontally and the rest of the background will be black. Thus, the smaller the resolution you go the worser horizontal lines get farther apart from each other creating a horrible picture. The vertical lines are fine though.
For example: a screen with 6*3 resolution:
on a CTX PR500F FD Trinitron monitor screen: (3 thin horizontal lines running across the screen)
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Regular CRT monitor screen: (the horizontal lines "stretch" to the other horizontal lines creating a sharp, bright, solid, clear picture.)
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Even though theres only 18 total dots displayed in these two examples, the regular CRT displays them in 18 solid connected dots on the screen, while the CTX PR500F monitor displays the dots NOT solidly with each horizontal dots. And you can tell the same thing when your running applications at least all the way up to 800*600.
So what I am trying to get at here is, is there any possible way that you can stretch the horizontal lines on the CTX PR500F monitor so they connect with all the other horizontal lines? If so, how? And if not, why not? And if not, I suspect that there has to be a way to fix this, maybe tricking the monitor that it should display the resolution 2 or 3 times the actual current one, that will help a little. So is there any way?
If you still don't understand what I'm trying to say, then imagine if we have a resolution of 6*3 pixles on the screen, there would be 3 thin straight solid lines running across the screen horizontally and the rest of the background will be black. Thus, the smaller the resolution you go the worser horizontal lines get farther apart from each other creating a horrible picture. The vertical lines are fine though.
For example: a screen with 6*3 resolution:
on a CTX PR500F FD Trinitron monitor screen: (3 thin horizontal lines running across the screen)
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Regular CRT monitor screen: (the horizontal lines "stretch" to the other horizontal lines creating a sharp, bright, solid, clear picture.)
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Even though theres only 18 total dots displayed in these two examples, the regular CRT displays them in 18 solid connected dots on the screen, while the CTX PR500F monitor displays the dots NOT solidly with each horizontal dots. And you can tell the same thing when your running applications at least all the way up to 800*600.
So what I am trying to get at here is, is there any possible way that you can stretch the horizontal lines on the CTX PR500F monitor so they connect with all the other horizontal lines? If so, how? And if not, why not? And if not, I suspect that there has to be a way to fix this, maybe tricking the monitor that it should display the resolution 2 or 3 times the actual current one, that will help a little. So is there any way?