Mitsubishi's RDT201WDL DisplayLink monitor now available
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted October 6th 2008 8:52PM
posted October 6th 2008 8:52PM
Laptop user looking for some dual-display action? Mitsubishi's new DisplayLink-equipped RDT201WDL WIDE LCD is a 20.1-inch wide-format monitor that features a USB hub, built-in Ethernet and WSXGA+ (1,680 x 1,050) resolution. Energy-conscious consumers will enjoy the on-screen energy meter and three levels of power usage, and we can all appreciate the fact that this monitor uses up to 36 percent less juice than a traditional LCD (in addition to the traditional savings DisplayLink provides by skipping the discrete graphics card). This item is currently available in Japan, and there's no word yet on a Stateside release date.
[Via Business Wire]
[Via Business Wire]
WTF is on that monitor?
I believe it is the Sina logo
You sir, deserve a cookie!
It's one of Sina's Beijing Olympic icons, which still doesn't explain why it's featured here.
Thats a character from Beijing Olympics ?
Hmm, I wonder why its there. Mitsubishi is a company in Japan.
Wow, I already know what DisplayLink is, but try to look it up on Wikipedia...
built-in Ethernet? Supports remote display??
what's the ethernet for?
So, this is the first I'm really seeing of this DisplayLink thing - I'm actually wondering if these could perhaps be a decent, fairly cheap upgrade to my laptop's onboard graphics - and if so by how much. They never really give enough tech specs, but they do say some of them are capable of handling Vista's Aero, which my laptop can just barely manage. So at the very least, they're just as good as my laptop's onboard. Which is really quite sad.
So it uses a software emulated video card and compress the display to show an send it over the USB port.
Good for laptop users.
Good for one computer-4 displays for multi person workstation solution.
Not good for gaming or 1080p video,
as the CPU have to do the encoding of the virtual usb display.
that slows it down and result would be fuzzy.