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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. Re:Reminds me of that laptop I saw once. by EvilIdler · · Score: 2, Informative

    CD-ROM drives used to have play/pause/skip buttons back in the day. Just power on and stick the disc in. All my first CD and DVD drives had this feature in the previous millennium. Now you need a functioning OS to play discs, for the most part (although the BIOS on at least two of my systems recognise and play discs with MP3s).

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

    Looks like it is just some sort of limited entertainment center. Watch some movies and that is it; no nic, browser, wifi. So, it is like looking at a DVD player and saying no PC required. Sum it up; it plays video, its a monitor with no DVD reader. Whats the point? TV/DVD player combos are (sadly) more useful.

    FYI: You can plug it into a PC/Mac:
    "PC/Windows, Mac® Equipped With Analog VGA D-sub or DVI Port"

    Build a low profile PC with MythTV; connect it to a large screen LCD/Plasma TV and you're better off. It's just an LCD TV with codecs built into it. Big deal you can connect it to a PC; so can LCD/Plasma TV's. I also see no mention of a digital tuner. Ok, this thing is going to sell.

  3. ATSC is compressed by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    HDTV broadcast over the air is not compressed

    Citation sorely needed. "Uncompressed" is what gets sent over your DVI or HDMI cable: 1920x1080 pixels, 3 channels, 8 bits per channel, 24 distinct frames per second, or 1.2 Gbps. To squeeze this into the roughly 19.39 Mbps provided by the 8VSB physical layer, ATSC DTV uses MPEG-2 video compression.

  4. That's because they used to handle the audio by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some computers didn't even have soundcards, and those that did certainly weren't going to handle the CD audio. So the CD player itself handled all playback and converted it to analogue audio, which you then listened to by either plugging headphones in to the CD player or running a wire to the sound card which then mixed it (again in analogue). All the OS did in terms of CD playback was tell it to start to play the disc.

    Little different now. You'll discover that many CD players lack analogue outs at all, and even when they have them they generally aren't hooked up. Instead the computer fetches the audio across the IDE or SATA connection and then gets it to the sound card digitally. These days it is no significant strain on the computer's busses to do that so there's no compelling reason to do things over a separate connection.