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Gateway's New 30-Inch Display Launches Today

by Tim Stevens on October 4, 2007 at 10:15 AM

Gateway Launches High-End 30-Inch Display

This morning Gateway introduced a new high-end LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) monitor that blows just about any current display out of the water -- at least when it comes to resolution. The new XHD3000 is a 30-inch monitor that boasts a massive 2560x1600 resolution, about four times the number of pixels in your typical 720p LCD and about 50% more than in a 1080p display. The display seems equally suited for high-end PC graphics work, viewing of high-definition television and movies, and either PC-based or console-based gaming. It has a slew of ports on the back that will allow you to connect anything from your old VCR to your PlayStation 3 with composite, component, HDMI, and DVI inputs (among others) -- up to six devices can be connected at once.

The XHD3000 sports a high-end video processing chipset that pledges to make your standard definition games and television look brilliant on the 1600p resolution. That all sounds great, but when you start to look at the specific specs beyond resolution, things look a bit sketchy. For example, the response time (the time it takes for the LCD to cycle from black to white and back again, indicating how much motion blur will be apparent) is 6ms. 6ms is good, but hardly industry leading, with displays from Viewsonic offering displays with 2ms response times. Additionally, the 1,000:1 contrast ratio and 400 cd/m2 brightness specs, combining to show the brightness of the whites and darkness of the blacks, are fairly pedestrian, especially given the monitor's price: $1,699.99.

For computer users who absolutely must have the highest resolution display on the block, it's hard to get much more than this. However, if you can stomach a relatively typical 1080p maximum resolution, for about $100 less you can get yourself a 46'' LCD from Sharp that offers a 10,000:1 contrast ratio and a 4ms response time. If you're a pixel junkie, keep in mind that just like with cameras, more pixels doesn't necessarily mean a better picture.

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