ACER adds two New Full HD 100Hz Liquid Crystal Displays at a low price
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wavetrex
D-Sub 😕
I know these are meant for corporate slave cubicles, but damn ... 1987 wants its connector back !
alanm
"Acer... low price". Theres your red flags.
fantaskarsef
The given price isn't even cheap... you can get 1080p monitors with 120Hz for that money already... fake news, or what did I miss?
Just looks like they want to get rid of a stockpile of bad 120Hz panels for cheap.
Calenhad
Why are we spelling out LCD suddenly? Press release wasn't long enough?
I believe you are off by more than a decade, since DVI was released in 1999. 😛
These are meh monitors. But hopefully they are good enough quality to replace some 60Hz monitors in offices.
tsunami231
I saw thes monitors and though if price is right ok, price not right there even VA the fact they even make monitors with DVI anymore is amazing? GPU dont really have them anymore and neither do MB last i checked? most monitor made in last decade? dont really have them either? it should be DP and Hdmi now
RealNC
As of late, in many people's minds, "LCD = bad." So lets call it "liquid crystal display" because that sounds really new and high tech.
Likewise, "1080 = bad," so let's call it "Full HD." Because you can't get better than "full." I mean, it's "full" already. Maximum. Better than that is just not possible.
tsunami231
I have also seen press release where they call LCD liquid crystal display and 1080p "full HD" go back as far as i can remember, bit it just play on them both
and LCD are BAD they are crap and always have been. there just flat and light CRT tech was better, maybe not in color and size and wieght but everything place else that it matter is was. but that is another topic
user1
Well to be fair to them they had to clean up that mess they made with (((hd))) lcd tvs which were 1366x768 native , but were marketed as 1080i.
wavetrex
I believe you are not realizing that these are not DVI. They are good old VGA D-Sub (DE-15) inputs, introduced in 1987 by IBM PS/2 Video Graphics Array (aka: VGA)
The connector standard is literally 36 years old.
Quick link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array
rflair
Moderator
I'm sure when 8K becomes the norm we will then Obese HD.
tsunami231
your right I read Dvi too.. VGA I have not seen any GPU have VGA port in even longer let alone MB.
wavetrex
Modern GPUs or Mobos do not have it, indeed... but there are many, many ancient computers still being used today as data entry or typewriters.
Just a few days ago I was at the office of a delivery company, the girl there worked on an ancient Dell with... you guessed it, a VGA port connected to an ancient 19" monitor with 1280x1024 (SXGA) resolution. I was pretty shocked... I had a better monitor @ home in 2010..., but that's the state of computing in a LOT of companies.
Reason ? If it doesn't break and people can still do their work on them, there's absolutely zero financial reason to change the hardware.
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These displays in this article are most likely in-place replacements for broken monitors attached to old, still working office computers.
user1
You would not believe the number of times I've seen people using vga adapters connected to newish monitors that have other connections.... I think its just that people are familiar with it , so they keep using it.
tsunami231
for really old monitors and TV that have RGB sure but I never see them anymore.
I have Video cards that had DVI still that I need and no RGB to connect to monitor, current monitor i look at is HDMI and RGB too, but most time just simpler to use hdmi
