Discolouration of 17" Graphite Studio display

My daughter's fiancee loves it as well, I've hooked up his Playstation
to the
composite and stereo inputs to allow him to share the clarity ;-)
(is this sacrilege???)

Have you tried the 2nd hand market???

Yes they can be most of the time!!!

regards Bob W

I didn't buy direct from Apple, but they became involved because my original
17" was returned as a DOA ((Dead On Arrival) any Apple product returned
with a defect within 2 weeks of receipt). They (Apples DOA department) eventually
agreed that the problem was down to a defective tube, but I still don't know
if that was the first or second Studio Display.

As far as geometry goes, I could get straight verticals over 2/3 of the screen
with outrageous barrelling at either side. Try viewing a file in page
view and check the curve on the sides of the rectangle that shows the
page edge to see what I mean, it may not look much but I tried my G3 on
a NEC C700 17"
which I adjusted for a friend and vertical straights were perfect from one
screen edge to the other.

Your dealer may not have knowledge of the discoloration problem, but Apple
certainly should.

Regards Bob W

The bastards! I was willing to pay for one, but the sods have stopped
making the blue one, which would have plugged straight into my G3, and now
do only all-digital versions. This would involve me buying a video card to
drive it, and the cost adds up to around a thousand quid.

I'd love one of the blue ones...

Bastards...

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Peter

It took a bit of fiddling for me to get the genometry sorted out on mine
too, actually on that score I'm begining to suspect comething odd within
my walls as my current monitor, my new monitor and my widescreen TV all
have the image skewed so that the right hand side is higher.

I shall complain but the probablem is that despite being painfully slow
to do anything they are very friendly and seem to have no knowledge of
this fault and seem to get strock in to order so they tend not to have
anything to compare it to. The 3 weeks I waited whilst I believed they
had sent it back to Apple were in fact spent with it sat there doing
bugger all until an "engineer" decided to mess with the controls on the
front and completely miss the actual problem so I'm begining to be less
warm with them. Anyway did you actually buy from Apple? I did try
ringing them to see if it was a known fault but gave up after 10 mintues
in a queue.
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I had a similar problem with 2 (YES TWO) 17" B/W studio displays,
straight vertical lines were also a problem (couldn't adjust geometry
to compensate [I'm no novice]).
Apples line was that the original was within apple tolerances, the second
was worse than the first not for geometry but for colour!!!
I'm very happy with the third monitor i was provided with by Apple.
It's a 15" LCD studio display (at no additional cost) :-) :-) :-) :-)
All I can suggest is that you complain, complain and keep on complaining!!!