Top 10 Monitors
Modest price cuts for sub-$600 monitors from Iiyama, Mitsubishi, and Televideo shuffle rankings on the chart.
KDS Avitron AV-7T
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 PRO:
Fair price, simple design. CON: Spreadsheet and newsletter
text is ghosted. $547; 15.8-inch viewable
area, .25mm stripe pitch Trinitron tube, up to 85 Hz refresh rate at 1024
by 768 resolution, Plug and Play ready, TCO'92 compliant, three-year warranty,
11-hour weekday toll-free support.
 KDS 800/283-1311 www.kdsusa.com
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Even though the price is right, the Avitron AV-7T, KDS's first venture
into the 17-inch Trinitron market, is a bust. The AV-7T faltered on our screen
legibility tests, pulling its score down to one of the lowest among this month's
new contenders. On our Word document, for example, letters had a light, gauzy
look, and on our spreadsheet test corner fonts were not well defined. How
do the AV-7T's graphics compare to those of this month's competition? While
it rendered scanned photos better than either MaxTech's XT-7861 or CTX's EX710,
the AV-7T was barely average. Colors on test images were intense, but its
graphics quality landed the AV-7T almost in last place. The AV-7T has a no-frills
look. Likewise, the on-screen controls were straightforward and bare-bones
in design: four buttons access and adjust the on-screen controls, but adjustment
required more button-pressing than we like.
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