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From: mikey@sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Subject: Re: Low Emission Monitors:  Who besides NEC?
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In article <C5yp5C.2Kt@acsu.buffalo.edu> v063kcbp@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (MITCH) writes:
>	I am right now working on an MPR-II certified (Swedish standards for
>low emissions) Hitachi Superscan 15 monitor.  It's 1024x768, up to 72hz at
>that res, and it got a good write-up for image quality in a recent (Feb.?)
>issue of PC Magazine.  As far as I know, very little fully matches a NEC in
>image quality (at least according to the mags -- I can't tell any
>difference between the two!), but I think NEC is low emissions on only one
>of the two types.  There's VLF (Very Low Frequency) and ELF (I think that's
>Extremely Low Frequency).  The MPR-II standards set strict limits on both.
>But many comapnies, NEC included according to one article I read (I get a
>bunch of mags so it's hard for me to remember which!), which claim "low
>emissions" but not specifically "MPR-II Compliant" or "MPR-II Certified"
>only control for one, usually VLF, and ignore the other.

Nanao's F-Series (e.g. F550i) and T-Series (e.g. T660i) monitors
are MPR-II compliant.  According to my little pamphlet, the T-Series
monitors are also TCO-compliant, whatever that is.

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
               mikey@sgi.com           415/390-1786
