General Monitor Question

[lykele]

Would someone be good enough to explain horizontal/vertical moire settings. I have a 3 year old monitor and happened to be looking through the setup when I found that adjustment. In changing the number from 0 to 100, I couldn't notice any noticable change. I put back to 0 figuring leave well enough alone!

Thanks.

 

[GoSharks]

Moiré is caused by the interaction of the beam and the mask or aperture grill. If you do not have moiré patterns on your screen, the controls simple de-focus the unit slightly. On an older unit is may appear to have no affect.

You can find my white paper about moiré at the following link.

http://www.monitorsdirect.com/shopping_tools/research.shtml

Jim Witkowski
Chief Hardware Engineer
Cornerstone / Monitorsdirect.com


Jim at http://www.monitorsdirect.com

 

[Guest]

When I received my new monitor I was putzing with the moire adjustment and noticed no obvious effect. Then one day I ran the defragmenter and immediately saw an underlying swirly pattern in the cluster grid. So, before it started to defrag, I paused the program and a slight moire adjust removed it completely. I suppose you must present the monitor with a pattern to excite the unwanted behavior, as I wouldn't have noticed it otherwise.