Sony GDM-F420: Appendix

Appendix

Preset mode timing table

No. Resolution

Horizontal

Vertical

Graphics

(dots × lines)

Frequency

Frequency

Mode

1640 × 480 31.5 kHz 60 Hz VGA-G

2640 × 480 37.5 kHz 75 Hz EVGA

3640 × 480 43.3 kHz 85 Hz VESA

4720 × 400 31.5 kHz 70 Hz VGA-Text

5720 × 400 37.9 kHz 85 Hz VESA

6800 × 600 37.9 kHz 60 Hz SVGA

7800 × 600 46.9 kHz 75 Hz VESA

8800 × 600 53.7 kHz 85 Hz VESA

9832 × 624 49.7 kHz 75 Hz Macintosh

16" Color

10 1024 × 768 48.4 kHz 60 Hz VESA

11 1024 × 768 56.5 kHz 70 Hz VESA

12 1024 × 768 60.0 kHz 75 Hz EUVGA

13 1024 × 768 60.2 kHz 75 Hz Macintosh

19" Color

14 1024 × 768 68.7 kHz 85 Hz VESA

15 1152 × 864 67.5 kHz 75 Hz VESA

16 1152 × 864 77.5 kHz 85 Hz VESA

17 1152 × 870 68.7 kHz 75 Hz Macintosh

21" Color

18 1280 × 960 60.0 kHz 60 Hz VESA

19 1280 × 960 85.9 kHz 85 Hz VESA

20 1280 × 1024 64.0 kHz 60 Hz VESA

21 1280 × 1024 80.0 kHz 75 Hz VESA

22 1280 × 1024 91.2 kHz 85 Hz VESA

23 1600 × 1200 75.0 kHz 60 Hz VESA

24 1600 × 1200 81.3 kHz 65 Hz VESA

25 1600 × 1200 87.5 kHz 70 Hz VESA

26 1600 × 1200 93.8 kHz 75 Hz VESA

27 1600 × 1200 106.3 kHz 85 Hz VESA

28 1920 × 1440 112.5 kHz 75 Hz VESA

If the input signal does not match one of the factory preset modes

above, the Generalized Timing Formula feature of this monitor

will automatically provide an optimal image for the screen as long

as the signal is GTF compliant.

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Below you will find a brief summary of the environmental

TCO’99 Eco-document

requirements met by this product. The complete environmental

criteria document may be ordered from:

TCO Development

SE-114 94 Stockholm, Sweden

Fax: +46 8 782 92 07

Email (Internet): development@tco.se

Current information regarding TCO’99 approved and labelled

products may also be obtained via the Internet, using the

address: http://www.tco-info.com/

x Environmental requirements

Flame retardants

x Congratulations!

Flame retardants are present in printed circuit boards, cables,

You have just purchased a TCO’99 approved and labelled

wires, casings and housings. Their purpose is to prevent, or at

product! Your choice has provided you with a product developed

least to delay the spread of fire. Up to 30% of the plastic in a

computer casing can consist of flame retardant substances. Most

for professional use. Your purchase has also contributed to

flame retardants contain bromine or chloride, and those flame

reducing the burden on the environment and also to the further

retardants are chemically related to another group of

development of environmentally adapted electronics products.

environmental toxins, PCBs. Both the flame retardants containing

x Why do we have environmentally labelled

bromine or chloride and the PCBs are suspected of giving rise to

computers?

severe health effects, including reproductive damage in fish-

eating birds and mammals, due to the bio-accumulative*

In many countries, environmental labelling has become an

processes. Flame retardants have been found in human blood and

established method for encouraging the adaptation of goods and

researchers fear that disturbances in foetus development may

services to the environment. The main problem, as far as

occur.

computers and other electronics equipment are concerned, is that

environmentally harmful substances are used both in the products

The relevant TCO’99 demand requires that plastic components

and during their manufacture. Since it is not so far possible to

weighing more than 25 grams must not contain flame retardants

satisfactorily recycle the majority of electronics equipment, most

with organically bound bromine or chlorine. Flame retardants are

of these potentially damaging substances sooner or later enter

allowed in the printed circuit boards since no substitutes are

nature.

available.

There are also other characteristics of a computer, such as energy

Cadmium**

consumption levels, that are important from the viewpoints of

Cadmium is present in rechargeable batteries and in the colour-

both the work (internal) and natural (external) environments.

generating layers of certain computer displays. Cadmium

Since all methods of electricity generation have a negative effect

damages the nervous system and is toxic in high doses. The

on the environment (e.g. acidic and climate-influencing

relevant TCO’99 requirement states that batteries, the colour-

emissions, radioactive waste), it is vital to save energy.

generating layers of display screens and the electrical or

Electronics equipment in offices is often left running

electronics components must not contain any cadmium.

continuously and thereby consumes a lot of energy.

Mercury**

x What does labelling involve?

Mercury is sometimes found in batteries, relays and switches. It

This product meets the requirements for the TCO’99 scheme

damages the nervous system and is toxic in high doses. The

which provides for international and environmental labelling of

relevant TCO’99 requirement states that batteries may not contain

personal computers. The labelling scheme was developed as a

any mercury. It also demands that mercury is not present in any of

joint effort by the TCO (The Swedish Confederation of

the electrical or electronics components associated with the

Professional Employees), Svenska Naturskyddsforeningen (The

labelled unit.

Swedish Society for Nature Conservation) and Statens

Energimyndighet (The Swedish National Energy

CFCs (freons)

Administration).

The relevant TCO’99 requirement states that neither CFCs nor

HCFCs may be used during the manufacture and assembly of the

Approval requirements cover a wide range of issues:

product. CFCs (freons) are sometimes used for washing printed

environment, ergonomics, usability, emission of electric and

circuit boards. CFCs break down ozone and thereby damage the

magnetic fields, energy consumption and electrical and fire

ozone layer in the stratosphere, causing increased reception on

safety.

earth of ultraviolet light with e.g. increased risks of skin cancer

The environmental demands impose restrictions on the presence

(malignant melanoma) as a consequence.

and use of heavy metals, brominated and chlorinated flame

Lead**

retardants, CFCs (freons) and chlorinated solvents, among other

things. The product must be prepared for recycling and the

Lead can be found in picture tubes, display screens, solders and

manufacturer is obliged to have an environmental policy which

capacitors. Lead damages the nervous system and in higher doses,

must be adhered to in each country where the company

causes lead poisoning. The relevant TCO’99 requirement permits

implements its operational policy.

the inclusion of lead since no replacement has yet been developed.

The energy requirements include a demand that the computer and/

* Bio-accumulative is defined as substances which accumulate

or display, after a certain period of inactivity, shall reduce its

within living organisms.

power consumption to a lower level in one or more stages. The

** Lead, Cadmium and Mercury are heavy metals which are Bio-

length of time to reactivate the computer shall be reasonable for

accumulative.

the user.

Labelled products must meet strict environmental demands, for

example, in respect of the reduction of electric and magnetic

fields, physical and visual ergonomics and good usability.

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