NEC MultiSync EA190M

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NEC MultiSync EA190M

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Bought myself one of these cheap second-hand as I needed a high-res monitor...

Out of the box, the default settings are pretty awful. You can see clearly there is scaling issues...
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The only way to fix this is to manually alter the horizontal width..

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You can see the banding in the background image, the banding sizing gaps get larger and larger and fainter and fainter as the horizontal is increased until ultimately they disappear...

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Because I took a picture of this with my digital camera, and then had to resize images, and compress them a little the image quality looks a little worse than it actually is on screen..


LOW RESOLUTION.
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MEDIUM RESOLUTION
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HIGH RESOLUTION
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Overall the monitor seems to works fine in all three resolutions. There does not seem to be anything nasty in the image overall. I think it looks pretty decent really.

The only downside I see is that the image is a little bit out of focus, it would have been nice if the monitor had some sort of sharpness setting, but I cannot find one.
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Re: NEC MultiSync EA190M

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I downloaded the manual just in case it vanishes at some point..
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Re: NEC MultiSync EA190M

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Are these pictures taken whilst the monitor is connected to an Atari ST? If so, what connection did you use?
TT030 with Storm with 256 Mb Ram, Thunder with a CF drive and Lightning, HxC floppy emulator and one of Codekiller's magical Mono/Colour switchers, also 3 STS one has TOS1.0 AND 2.06 switchable with an HD drive, the other two are untested as yet, just bought for spares!!
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Re: NEC MultiSync EA190M

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thesofa wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 8:45 pm Are these pictures taken whilst the monitor is connected to an Atari ST? If so, what connection did you use?
The images is from a Atari.....

Connection with these https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0170
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Re: NEC MultiSync EA190M

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So the Low Res was at 15 khz even though the manual says 31 khz is lowest?
and you say it was from an Atari - but was it an ST or TT or Falcon?
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Re: NEC MultiSync EA190M

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thesofa wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:52 pm So the Low Res was at 15 khz even though the manual says 31 khz is lowest?
That doesn't make sense, its a Multisync monitor.. so it has to support 15Khz else it wouldn't be multisync..

thesofa wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:52 pm and you say it was from an Atari - but was it an ST or TT or Falcon?
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Re: NEC MultiSync EA190M

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from the manual you posted
Synchronization Range Horizontal: 31.5 kHz to 81.1 kHz (Analog) Automatically
31.5 kHz to 81.1 kHz (Digital) Automatically
Vertical: 56.0 Hz to 75.0 Hz Automatically
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Don't know then, the manual must be wrong as it clearly works in low res.
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Re: NEC MultiSync EA190M

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I use the same monitor connected with the Best Electronics multisync video cable. All three resolutions work as Exxos states so it does support 15Khz no matter what the manual says.

I like the monitor because it also has speakers built-in even though they are not the greatest. :lol:
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Re: NEC MultiSync EA190M

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Is there any way you can get the monitor to show current refresh rate?
TT030 with Storm with 256 Mb Ram, Thunder with a CF drive and Lightning, HxC floppy emulator and one of Codekiller's magical Mono/Colour switchers, also 3 STS one has TOS1.0 AND 2.06 switchable with an HD drive, the other two are untested as yet, just bought for spares!!
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