Eizo whips up FlexScan SX2761W / SX2461W LCD monitors

If you have a seemingly insatiable appetite for screen real estate, Eizo's out to satisfy. The firm has unleashed a new duo of FlexScan monitors, which both sport a 1,920 x 1,200 resolution VA panel and the ability to be set up vertically or horizontally. As for the 24.1-inch SX2461W (pictured after the jump), it promises to reproduce 96-percent of the AdobeRGB color space and features a 850:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness, six-millisecond response time, HDCP-compliant DVI connector and a pair of USB ports. The 27-incher differs by handling 95-percent of the AdobeRGB color space, sporting 320 cd/m2 brightness and giving users a few more inches (but not pixels, mind you) to work with. Price wise, the little(r) fellow will run you a stiff ¥137,800 ($1,202) when it lands next month, while the 27-incher will demand an additional ¥40,200 ($350).

[Via Impress]
Read - FlexScan SX2761W
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[CommentSystem Posted Nov 8th 2007 2:53PM]

tetris FTW!!

[apeguero Posted Nov 8th 2007 3:17PM]

So why would I want to pay more for the 27" where it would require more desktop space but give me the same screen real estate that the 24" screen does? I would love to see these LCD manufacturers sell a 24 or 27" LCD with the same resolution of a 30" LCD. That I would conisder ground breaking, otherwise, SOSDD.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 8th 2007 3:36PM]

Yes, that's exactly what I think. This is interesting for gaming or watching movies, but as you don't get more resolution, you can't fit more stuff on it.
27" inch screens are to 24" screens what 19"ers are to 17"ers.
A 2560*1600 24"er would be stunning.

[foobar Posted Nov 9th 2007 7:45AM]

As much as I love my Dell 2407WFP-HC, it would be cool to have a higher resolution 24 or even 27 inch screen. It does seem utterly pointless to get a 27 though.

Its the reason I went for the 24 over the 22...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 12:34PM]

At 27" and the same resolution, 1" in real life is within milimeters of 1" on screen. An example is that a 12" ruler will be life size on screen.

This is a good thing for a lot of people.

[Salem Posted Nov 8th 2007 4:23PM]

Well, this is actually pretty cool. This is the first time I've seen anything larger than 24 inch that can rotate to portrait mode, and thats one feature that's important to me (for doing lots of reading or web-browsing).

It's just too bad this also happens to be -way- out of my price range. The 24 inch model is almost double the price of Dell's 24 inch 2407WFP-HC, and to my understanding, Dell sells the best LCDs (or at least close to the best). That's not even considering the cheaper TN panel displays out there..

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 8th 2007 4:59PM]

I've never had a monitor which can rotate so a dumb question - When you rotate the monitor into the portrait mode, how do you tell the O/s to change the alignment of the output?

[Salem Posted Nov 8th 2007 6:31PM]

Well with my computer it's part of the advanced display settings that came with my video card (it's an ati mobility x600). I have options to rotate it 90, 180, and 270 degrees. There might be some programs out there that can do the same thing for you, but I really don't know.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 8th 2007 6:40PM]

@Naveen:

In Windows at least, you can change the desktop orientation by pressing [Alt Gr] + [Arrow]. I'm not sure if this is a feature of the graphics driver or of Windows itself, but I've been able to do it on every Windows computer I have seen.

In addition, both ATI and Nvidia driver programs have a rotation feature that you can activate from the system tray.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 8th 2007 6:51PM]

Oh, and in case you're using a non-international US keyboard: AltGr can be simulated by pressing Ctrl+Alt. So that'd be [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Arrow] then.

(My keyboard's Finnish and I haven't seen the US keyboard layout very much. But enough to remember that little detail.)

[foobar Posted Nov 9th 2007 7:45AM]

All of the rotating functions are the graphics drivers that you have. When I was working on rotated screens over the summer I found that most modern graphics cards and a suprising number of mobile graphics cards will now rotate their screens.

Intel graphics cards tend to use the [ctrl]+[alt]+[del] + [left|right|up|down] method, which is also something you can set up in the nvidia control panel. You can usually do it with the native windows drivers for mobile graphics cards, but then they are terrible in every other respect.