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KDS Avitron 7TF 17 inch CRT Monitor

KDS Avitron 7TF 17 inch CRT Monitor

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KDS AV-7TF - What Are Those Things?!?

by OpalMan OpalMan is a Lead on Epinions in Computer Hardware, Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Jun 14 '01
Pros: nice monitor for a reasonable price
Cons: Those two lines
We recently purchased six of these monitors at the credit union where I work. We were looking for a less expensive alternative to the Mag Innovision monitors. The Mag monitors are very nice but they are a little on the expensive side. I will try to...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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KDS Is Over The Rainbow!

by seracorde11 , Jan 20 '01
Pros: Excellent Color Quality (Comparable to Sony CPD-200ES), Inexpensive
Cons: Takes Up Too Much Desk Space
After promising ourselves we would hold off until the new year to complete our fourth computer system, we patiently anticipated the year 2001. Once the new year arrived and the ice and snow stopped, we packed up our family and began our shopping voyage...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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KDS AV-7TF Monitor

by darkangeln , Apr 16 '01
Pros: Cheap, respectable company, good Cheap, respectable company, good quality,
Cons: 2 very unnoticeable horizontal lines.
When I bought my new computer, I spent a good amount of time researching for a good monitor. I've seen almost every 17 inch monitor but this one stuck in my mind. One of the best things about this monitor is the price. It is cheap for at 17 inch which...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
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Sweeeeet

by eeegor , Nov 05 '00
Pros: Cheapest flat screen on the market, great warranty.
Cons: Two lines across the screen, had to download drivers.
During the late summer and early fall of 2000, my old Acer monitor began doing some weird things. After working for a few hours, it would all of a sudden behave like it no longer received a signal from the computer. Basically, the screen would go blank....
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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The king of cheap 17" monitors.

by jsc1973 , Dec 17 '01
Pros: Top quality picture tube, flat screen, and it's cheap!
Cons: The two little lines across the screen.
I picked this monitor up three months ago and have since run it through the motions on three video cards and two different operating systems (Win98 and Win2K) without problems.

This monitor is an interesting marriage of a company not known for...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
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Superior Colors for Inferior Price

by pointblankart , Apr 22 '01
Pros: superior color gamut/fidelity, flat - glare free display screen
Cons: low refresh rate for resolutions above 768x1024, slight geometric distortion
The colors are rich and full-bodied, and the text sharp on a glare-free screen. There is some geometric distortion - i.e. slight concavity at the top and slightly convex at the bottom. However, given the fact that the eye is a spheroid and shall never...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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An overall excellent flat-screen

by emperorjerm , Mar 03 '01
Pros: Incredible clarity, NICE screen, decent price
Cons: Slight miscoloring (on my monitor), some incompatabilities.
This monitor is overall a great piece of work! Excellent clarity, non-glare coating, flat screen, nice dot-pitch. Vibrant colors with aperture grille!

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What more can I say? The controls are most excellent, with a 4-button...
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A great monitor for a great price

by sackula , Jun 17 '04
Pros: Crisp picture, great refresh rate, amazing color and depth, clean and easy to use.
Cons: The two lines, one issue with the power button.
This monitor was purchased in order to replace a junkie HP monitor I was using. I picked this up from Bestbuy for about $250 at the time and lugged it home. After unpacking it, I noticed that it was a little heavy, not to an extreme but it was heavier ...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
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KDS is AOK! :) [updated 8/2003]

by Anniemal , Nov 18 '01
Pros: Nice flatscreen, affordable, easy menu.
Cons: Base is hard to move. Heavy and bulky
I needed a new monitor for my computer, so I decided to purchase the KDS Avitron 7TF is a 17" monitor. It was affordable and came with a rebate at the BestBuy. Thus far, I have not had any trouble with this monitor.

The dot pitch and...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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Excellent monitor for the money

by kstokes , Nov 09 '01
Pros: EXCELLENT monitor for the price, great color, nice warranty.
Cons: None that I can think of..
I bought my Avitron AV-7TF back in February (It's November now), and couldn't be any more pleased. It was cheap, yet it has excellent image quality, focus, color, etc. It also came with a 3 year warranty. I couldn't ask for any more.

The...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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Outstanding!

by JWhipple , Oct 27 '00
Pros: Outstanding clarity, vibrant colors, low cost.
Cons: Drivers not included with the monitor.
I purchased this monitor because of the outstanding price ($249 at Best Buy) for a trinitron flat screen. I have absolutely no complaints about it. The colors are exceptionally crisp, and any text/graphics I have on the screen are sharp as could be. I am...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 2.0
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FLICKER FLICKER FLICKER

by JLSJRF , Sep 09 '00
Pros: NONE
Cons: FLICKERING ITS PLAIN JUNK
If you like the constant flickering this is a monitor for you. I have had my monitor now for 3 months and has not yet stop flickering. I leave the monitor on for hours and it gets worse. Last week the monitor finaly went out completely and when i called...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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Awesome

by jeffles37 , Jan 05 '01
Pros: Flat screen, easy on the eyes, great value
Cons: Geometry can be tricky to dial in for the first few days.
After lots of searching for the perfect 17" monitor, I turned to KDS for their great warranty program and sweet technology. Although it isn't as capable of high resolutions as a Sony model, it is certainly flat, with great picture and color quality....
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Great monitor for Gamers.

by synergi , Jun 24 '01
Pros: Price, Trinitron picture tube.
Cons: None that I can see.
What two lines? Ive spent the last ten minutes trying to find the two lines every other opinion keeps referring to, for the life of me I don't see them.

This monitor is bright, crisp and colorful. I play online games alot and where my 15 inch...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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You Won't be Sorry
by arvey ,Nov 28 '05
Pros: This monitor works! It greatly surpasses my expectations.
Cons: It's bulky, compared to latest technology.
I bought the monitor several years ago, to use with a Macintosh G4, because it was on sale at a local office store, without researching its competitors.

I am greatly impressed by its day-in and day-out reliability. It's never turned off, just "put to sleep," unless we're away for more than a few days. It's never had to be re-adjusted or otherwise tuned up.

We definitely have more than our money's worth, AND I've never seen those "two horizontal lines." I hope it never has to be replaced.
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