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 ViewSonic has unveiled two monitors scheduled to be released during the first quarter 2007: the VX2435wm and VX2835wm. These two monitors, as you can see in their names will have diagonals of 24 and 28 inches. To be perfectly accurate, the 28" would actually be a 27.5". ViewSonic is a little bit optimistic and the last figure corresponds to the visible part of the panel. The two monitors share the same characteristics: 1920 x 1200 pixels, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 500 cd/m², VGA, DVI, S-Video, YUV, component, HDMI (HDCP) inputs. Response time, however, will not be identical for the two monitors: it will be of 5ms for the 24" and 8ms for the 28". They will be available in February and respectively priced $700 and $880.
As the resolutions of the two monitors are identical, it means that the characters displayed by the 28" will be very big. You should take that into considerations if you are planning to use it for multiple activities: IT, movies etc. |
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 Lately, the SED monitor technology has been the subject of many news. We learned that instead of being the propriety of Canon and Toshiba, this technology would be in fact owned by Nano-Proprietary who would have granted a licence to Canon. Ten days ago, Nano Proprietary announced that this licence had been granted to Canon and Canon only. This means that Toshiba would be in discordance with this agreement despite the creation of a Joint Venture by the two manufacturers for the development of this technology.
10 days earlier, last December 28, Toshiba's CEO announced that despite previous announcement saying that LCD and SED would be sold at the same price for an equivalent diagonal size, theses monitor would actually be available at a prohibitive price. In consequence, they would be limited initially to a strictly professional use. If you add the very high price and the 50" diagonal for the first TVs featuring this technology, the result is that only a handful of customers will be potentially concerned. We have to say that we have seen more enthusiast manufacturers about to release a technology supposed to be revolutionary.
Another aspect also needs to be taken into consideration, the spectacular progresses made by LCD monitors during the past few months: seriously diminished afterglow (we started talking about SED monitors 4 years ago and at the time the fastest LCDs were TN 16ms), wide gamut backlights, imminent introduction of 100 or 120 Hz monitors, strong improvement of black deepness, factory pre-calibration, new ultra thin bezels…Will the 2007 generation of LCD monitors really need a rival? Not everybody believes that SED monitors will really bring major improvements. This is something that we will have to check in practice if the monitors' prices are attractive.
Today, the last unsurprising development is that Toshiba has decided to completely leave the SED technology. Canon is now alone in the joint venture and continues the adventure: Canon, new comer in the monitor word vs world competition (Samsung, LG-Philips, AU-Optronics...). Good luck!
The first monitors will be available end of 2007 and massive shipments will start early 2008 for the Beijing Olympic Games.
> Close Encounters of the Third Kind: SED |
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