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LG Flatron 2320A 23" LCD Media Station Reviewed
Julio writes "TechSpot has taken an in-depth look at LG's Flatron 2320A 23" LCD, you should know however that calling this a monitor would be an understatement, this is a multi-media workstation. The package consists of a 23" widescreen LCD color monitor, and a multi-media station that lets you connect its beautiful flat screen to your PC and a number of devices at the same time (X-Box, etc.). Feel yourself warned though, luxury does come at a cost."
it's an awesome monitor. some people will buy it.
having moved to brazil, the perspective for everything changed.
i see from here a vast need for lower costing, not higher featured, everything.
YMMV, my 2 cents, etc
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You can get a 20" dell 2100FP that has 4 inputs with one button switching between them(1 DVI, 1 VGA, 1 s-video and 1 composite) AND it supports PIP. Seems like a better price/performance ratio to me. Though that thing that Julio is pimping is widescreen, still doesnt seem worth it.
Agree with the other comments that the review isn't worth reading.
I certainly believe that at this price point, LG is going to make an excellent display. They are a reputable company.
However, the reviewer has no clue what he's talking about.
He's obviously never used an LCD panel before, as all he compares the monitor to is 'his old crt'. He notes that colors seem a bit faded compared to a CRT, which IMO, is simply the result of using the wrong ICC profile, though I will agree that the gamma / color range of an LCD panel is often not as good as that of a CRT (especially a high-end CRT, though those will cost you about as much as this beast would)
That being said, it's cool, I like it, and if I were looking for the world's most expensive 23" TV and could actually afford it, I'd buy it. From the review, it looked like you could hook 3 PCs + a number of AV components to it. It's a nice substitute for a KVM for people like me who use a mac, but keep a PC hooked up for the few programs I run that aren't Mac-native.
Still.... it's expensive... a point he doesn't really cover in the review. But, yes, I also believe that this product is probably the best in its class just by looking at the feature list.
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No. TV's have tuners. No tuner here.
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Well, actually, it seems to be the _old_ 23" Apple Cinema Display, connection-wise (it may use the same LCD panel as the newer one, or not; the two have different specifications). The power/data cable that connects the "media station" to the display is nothing else but the Apple Display Connector - you can see it at the top of the pictures; it looks like a DVI-I connector with six additional pins: two for power (DVI already provides power, just not enough), three for USB, and another (not sure whether Apple's "LED" or "Soft Power" = DVI's "Hot Plug Detect"). Apple's latest displays went back to using DVI directly, with separate USB/FireWire connections.
Pretty cool that LG is reusing the stuff they developed for Apple, though.
The first step in setting up any workstation for any serious work, is informing the window manager of your DPI. In gnome I have done this and if I set a font to be 24pt, it is exactly the same size on screen as it is on the printed page. Just increasing the font size is bad, and not what you want.
For example. I have an IBM Thinkpad with a 14" 1400x1050 screen (set at 104dpi). Most of my fonts are 10pt, and some are 8pt. Now most people would say 8pt is tiny. But that's only because almost noone correctly sets the DPI when switching to something over 72dpi (the usual default).
Almost all apps (except a few poorly written ones) work just fine, rendering text at the same size, just using more pixels. Windows apps should do the same but there might be more exceptions with older apps because of less adherence to standards...
At 108dpi text is very readable (thanks to gorgeous truetype antialiased rendering of Freetype). I even turned off sub-pixel AA because it actually looked better without it. 150dpi would be amazing, and 200... well I can't even imagine.
But what I really want is a standalone, 17", 1600x1200 native resolution LCD Monitor... WHAT IS SO HARD? 15" laptops can do this. The smallest LCD that can run 1600x1200 is 18.1" and costs nearly $1,000. That's a load of crap.
I WANT MY DPI!