Talk:Multisync monitor

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isn´t it a nec trademark? other vendors use similar terms, like e.g. syncmaster (samsung)
 * indeed -- Polluks (talk) 00:37, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

First gen EGA monitors were bisync
That is they would do either 23 or 15 khz as needed. CGA quality was very poor because there was effectively a black line between each color line. VGA monitors were single sync. The display card would double lines as needed. Digging for refs. - Richfife (talk) 22:00, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Rewrite notes
I rewrote this article to provide better context of fixed-sync monitors as well as early dual-sync displays, but I also removed a lot of unsourced assertions and information that I felt was out of scope and belonged on other (usually linked) pages. Some points I'd like to reintroduce however, such as the assertion that incorrect frequencies can damage monitors - I personally know this to be true and saw it happen long ago, but we know the difference between knowing and proving; I was unable to locate any published statement to this effect. Please add this info back in with a good citation if you can find one!Gravislizard (talk) 23:49, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Limited perspective
This article (even after my total rewrite) is written entirely from a PC perspective. Multisync monitors almost certainly predate their appearance in the IBM PC market in 1985. They also go beyond PCs entirely, into television standard displays.

I suspect VESA intersects with PC, Mac, Sun, and so on, so one approach is to put the existing page content under a master category of "Computer multisync monitors," rename History to "PC history," create sections for other platforms (particularly Mac, which should be well documented) and then at the point where VESA comes into play, unify under that banner.

I think however this may be overspecific, and instead these may need to be merged and some elements removed - if we mention Mac monitors for instance we can't really list every PC display standard. I believe that illustrates the history well as-is, but will be too verbose if we merge the timelines. Requires more thought.Gravislizard (talk) 20:59, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I have rewritten the article for a more platform neutral perspective but this introduces sourcing issues. The IBM PC hardware ecosystem is incredibly well documented in periodicals among other things; I am far less equipped to document other platforms or things such as broadcast monitors, which I *know* are available in multiscan forms but cannot prove.Gravislizard (talk) 00:31, 18 August 2020 (UTC)