BenQ Delivers LCD for the Ladies
May 22, 2006
Nino Marchetti
The new 19" FP93V sports an all-white exterior and base stand for storing items, among other features.
BenQ today announced the availability of a new LCD monitor targeted towards women. The new 19” FP93V is priced at $339 and available now.
The FP93V, said BenQ, has an all-white exterior which they say makes it an ideal complement to any office and home décor. This LCD monitor features a base-stand which offers a place to keep items like stationery and external drives. Other features of the FP93V include two-way cable management, an adjustable screen, D-Sub and DVI input support, a 550:1 contrast ratio and a 8ms response time.
“We pride ourselves on bringing new form and functionality to the stylish FP93V LCD Monitor,” says Dinesh Pariyadath, BenQ’s director of network display division, in a statement. “The FP93V is ideal for the style-conscious consumer who won’t compromise on performance.”
Source: http://news.digitaltrends.com/article10495.html
Acer AL1916W Widescreen LCD Monitor Review
Great, no-frills widescreen monitor with an unbeatable price
The Acer AL1916W widescreen LCD monitor
Due to the sudden death of my beloved 22” Sony CRT (she served me well for nearly seven years) I was forced to get a replacement monitor. This time, however, I decided to bite the bullet and finally make the switch to an LCD display – the Acer AL1916W widescreen. After using the monitor for a few days I decided to put it through its paces, run a few benchmark tests, and see how this $300 monitor stacked up against its more expensive cousins.
In the box you get a Quick Start Guide, warranty info, CD-ROM with 10 page PDF manual, VGA cable, power cable, and the stand. The monitor comes with either a simple black or silver bezel that extends about ¾” around the edges of the active display area. On the back are the VGA connection and the power cable port. Oddly enough the manual and quick start guide reference an optional DVI connector and optional audio input – our unit didn’t have either – and the Acer website makes no reference to a DVI or audio connection. Either Acer changed their mind at the last moment or the DVI versions are only available in other countries.
Setting up the AL1916W takes about two minutes. You snap on the plastic base, plug in the power cord and VGA cable, change your computer display output to 1440 x 900 and off you go.
On the front are a power button and four other buttons for accessing and changing settings using the OSD (on-screen display) menus. One of the buttons will also perform an auto-adjustment to optimize the position, phase, and clock pulse if pressed when the OSD is not displayed. Selections on the OSD menu are fairly rudimentary. You can adjust contrast and brightness, focus and clock pulse, screen position, color temperature (warm, cool, or user defined RGB), OSD language, OSD position on the screen and timeout, activate the auto configuration, get resolution and frequency information, reset to factory settings, and exit. Navigating through, and making adjustments in the OSD is quite simple but you’ll rarely need to change things once you’re set up. On our unit adjusting the brightness didn’t seem to have much effect but we were happy with the factory settings anyway.
Source: http://desktops.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=39374
Apple Patents Two-Way LCD Screen
April 27th, 2006
Apple has submitted a patent application for an LCD screen that can display images as well as capture a shot of what's in front of it. According to an article at NewScientist, the device would contain "thousands of microscopic image sensors in-between the liquid crystal display cells in the screen. Each sensor captures its own small image, but software stitches these together to create a single, larger picture."
In addition to the obvious use in videoconferencing, the Web site speculates that the invention could be used in a cell phone or PDA as a way to both snap photos and display information.
Source: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/04/27.13.shtml
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