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Computer Optional For AOC's New HD Display

Posted by kdawson on from the now-that's-convergence dept.

MojoKid writes "As a 22-inch, HD flat-panel display, AOC's new 2230Fm LCD has nothing necessarily earth-shattering about its design. But what got our attention was the marketing tag for the device: 'No PC Required.' It turns out that, in addition to being a traditional flat-screen LCD with a native resolution of 1680 x 1050 (HDCP ready), the 2230Fm also includes a built-in media player, with what AOC calls its HD3 technology. The 2230Fm supports MPEG-1, 2, and 4 video formats. Supported audio formats include MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLA, and M4A. Supported photo formats include JPG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, and GIF images with resolutions up to 8000 x 8000 pixels. The display also has a low 2ms response time and high 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Re:Run? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It probably runs Java on a low powered CPU such as the Z80 or 6502.
    It's the latest "Just-In-Time" virtual machines that make it possible, dynamically recompiling the video codecs at runtime to give unprecedented optimizations.
    Even the very best hand optimized home-theatre video codec assembler can't approach one-fifteenth of the speed of a Java application.
    Over medium turn runs of a few months, it's been known for the entire mpeg-4 codec to be optimized down to just a hand full of instructions.
    This is one of the many reasons why nobody even bothers to perform comparisons between Java and C++ any more.

  3. Re:Reminds me of that laptop I saw once. by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Call it the iPod Meter and people will be all over it.

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  4. Re:Run? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What does it run? It would be interesting if it was embedded Linux, because there would be so much you could do with it (server, etc)

    Embedded Vista, you can't do anything with it.

  5. Re:Would have been even better by cheater512 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh and it costs under $100.

  6. Yes.. but... by denzacar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Big screen TVs such as these give them hope and strength to push on in hope that one day, they too will have a wall with a socket to plug a TV such as that into.

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  7. Re:Run? by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Changing channel from 3 to 4

    Cancel or Allow?

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