Simple question on Aperture Grille Pitch.....

[neil]

1st? What is the "Aperture Grille Pitch"

2nd? Is it better to have a low number for the AGP like .25mm, or a higher one like .26mm


thats all....


thanks
-neil

 

[jsbush]

It's how much your screen blobs out! The lower the better. .24mm I belive is a Flat screen.

 

[office boy]

LOL, This covers most of the basics.

But the pitch has nothing to do with a monitor being flat or not.

 

[hans007]

an apeture grill is the technology used in trinitron and diamontron monitors basically it is a mask that goes over the cathode ray tube thing. The mask in this case has slots in it. Regular tubes have holes. The slot pitch is the distance between the slots i figure. On regular tubes the number usually quoted is the distance between two holes, but something that seems to compare better with a horizontal slot pitch is the horizontal dot pitch on a normal monitor (distance vertically between the two dots say if you drew two horizontal lines on their centers)

 

[Mule]

hans007 thanks for introducing us to Aperture Grille 437 but I think that neil only wanted to know if a higher or lower number is better.

Just watch out for advertising gimicks that present the horizontal or vertical pitch instead of the diagnal pitch.

The horizontal pitch on monitors is usually lower and sometimes they will advertise that instead of the industry standard diagnal pitch, which is what you want.

 

[Gosharkss]

Mule

I disagree,read the following web page. HOrizontal dot pitch is the only way to compare apples to apples when comparing Shadow mask and Aperture grill technology.

http://www.csf.org.uk

see "dot pitch explained"

JIm at http://www.monitorsdirect.com

 

[Noriaki]

<< Just watch out for advertising gimicks that present the horizontal or vertical pitch instead of the diagnal pitch. >>

This is true when using shadow mask. You have to be careful of this. But AGrilles have no concept of Vertical pitch...they are vertical lines...how do you compare the vertical distance between two vertical parrallel lines?




<< 1st? What is the &quot;Aperture Grille Pitch&quot; >>

AGrille monitors have vertical stripes of colour running across the screen, there is Red, Green and Blue. The AG Pitch is the distance between two lines of the same colour.



<< 2nd? Is it better to have a low number for the AGP like .25mm, or a higher one like .26mm >>

Smaller, because each pixel on the screen is a Red,Blue and Green line. The closer the lines are together the clearer each pixel becomes.

So you want small. .24 or .25 is pretty good.

 

[Philly C]

Also, monitors that say .25mm-.27mm means that it's .25mm at the center and .27mm at the corners. This means text gets kinda blurry at the corners.