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Saturday, November 8, 2008

AnandTech: BenQ E2200HD and E2400HD.

Technology often seems to be constant along at a rash pace; many public are still infuriating to find good uses for quad-core Core 2 processors, and yet already those are. Every year, users can reckon on inexperienced CPUs, GPUs, and other tools to come in their once great computer system seem unused and outdated. Thankfully, there are areas where improve occurs at a more sedate pace.



Yes, once again it's organize to talk about displays. That's not to declare that displays haven't changed a lot over the years; as well demean prices, we have seen some technological innovations extremely in the LCD arena. Five years ago, the best you could expectancy for was pixel retort times that weren't atrocious. These days, numerous displays brag 2ms reply times, and while the fact may be that typical response times are fairly a bit higher, at least that's one section where technology has reached the object that you don't need to worry about it too much anymore.

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BenQ is a visitor that has been around for a while in one form or another. Originally established in 1984, the BenQ style officially came into life in 2001, when they separated from Acer. While they do compel other peripherals (Joybook laptops, optical drives, digital cameras, phones, and even a plastic Internet device), BenQ is best known middle computer users for their displays and projectors. Their modern development "innovation" is that they are leaving behind 16:10 side ratios and as an alternative booming with 16:9 FullHD/1080P displays (at least for some models).



Why is that important? Honestly, if all you ever do on your PC is surf the web, join games, and do role stint there's a very believable luck you will rise the difference. Where this is advantageous is in support for national HDTV resolutions. Instead of a vertically stretched epitome filling your 16:10 publicize or black bars on the climb and bottom, you can watch HD cheer at its normal aspect ratio and have it stock the whole display. This is suppositious to help with watching the latest Blu-ray movies, but there's just one unimportant problem: a lot of HD please doesn't use a 16:9 (1.78) light ratio.



Instead, many DVDs and Blu-ray movies now use a 2.39 AR, so you still end up with bad bars on the crown and bottom. Certainly there is an supply of marketing confused in promoting FullHD/1080P LCDs, but 16:9 video theme does prevail (and gaming content as well -- being a elementary example) so there are occasions where this isn't academic marketing hype.



How big of a promote the 1080P resolution is will depend largely on how much multimedia content you view. Note also that the two displays we are looking at today truss HDMI, so furthermore functioning as computer LCDs they can also platform in for an HDTV, or you can palm up an Xbox 360 or PS3. In that case, the autochthon 16:9 AR can be very important! Today we are looking at the BenQ E2200HD and E2400HD.



Both have a in the blood vow of 1920x1080, with the contradistinction being that one is at 24" panel and the other is a 22" panel (technically 21.5"). In terms of features and appearance, the two LCDs otherwise air identical. Naturally, the larger E2400HD does outlay more, but depending on your eyesight the leftover ~$100 may be small change well spent.



If you only arrange to use your dash as a computer monitor, we wouldn't peeve too much about the wrangle over 16:9 vs. 16:10 AR -- instead, get whichever flaunt offers the best ringer status at the most unexcessive price. What we want to summon out then is how well these new BenQ displays perform.



After all, if personification quality, processing lag, or other aspects are extremely poor, detail relationship support may be the least of your concerns. So let's get to it.



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