Nobody was happy to see digital video standards splinter along the lines of
DisplayPort and HDMI
back in 2007. Two years on and Dell and Apple seem to be the primary forces behind the standard as the rest of the consumer electronics
industry opts for straight-up HDMI. Kind of makes you wonder if DisplayPort is
the new Firewire particularly with
HDMI 1.4 and minascule
Type D HDMI plugs around the corner. At least Eizo's tossing DisplayPort
another bone today with the introduction of its 23-inch FlexScan EV2333W-H in Japan. The 1920x1080 pixel display with 3000:1 contrast, 300nits of brightness, and 7-ms response also packs a DVI-D jack to help ease the transition. It'll cost ¥54,800 (about $560) when it lands in Japan mid-July. Not exactly a game-changer.
posted Jun 12th 2009 5:41AM
Meh, those stats are crap anyway, unless that is an S-IPS panel...
That's one fugly ass monitor!
Don't Eizo make quality gear?
Stylish doesn't mean quality.
minascule??
Sound a harsh word for me.
it can only be a ips or pva for that price and no way a TN.
That’s a TN panel; Eizo monitors with PVA usually cost twice as much.
Pro monitor for the pro market. Pro price...
P.S. Not everything is supposed to be a 'game-changer'...
Does Apple really count as a supporter of Displaylink, since they took the format and made a proprietary connector out of it?
Since there are no other hardware devices with this output or input, even with there being no royalty fee for development of the connector, could Apple's interpretation of DL be considered as 'open' as Dell's unfettered approach?
On-Topic, this looks to be an excellent monitor, Eizo's monitors are excellent. I'm currently using a 22" Flexscan S2231W, and after a quick calibration the colours I get back from the press are almost identical.
Although, this one looks rank. Seriously, white?
Mini DisplayPort is part of the DisplayPort standard.
That base looks a bit small, a breath of wind would knock that thing over!
That's VERY VERY cheap for an eizo.
Eizo?
By "becoming another Firewire" do you mean, technically superior, and unknown to the masses because the likes of Microsoft & Dell ignore it?
and yet Dell is a major backer of the Display Port Standard... curious
Is there something special about this monitor? We already have 22" and I believe 24" HP LCDs in the office with DisplayPort. Of course none of us have DP on the PC but we do have some ultra-slim PCs elsewhere with DP.
Thomas Ricker doesn't read comments to engadget articles. Every now and then I see an article on Engadget complaining about displayport. User comments will tell you that it is because displayport offers more than 8 bits per channel of colors. That is helpful for graphic designers. HDMI was invented for copy protection of video and audio streams and does not offer an improvement over hdmi and tos link other than condensing them into a single cable. That is why macs, expensive monitors and other products geared towards graphics professionals avoid HDMI. It offers nothing that simple dvi doesn't for a computer monitor.
Thanks eizo, keep it up and i'll be handing over my income like a non-native in the bronx.