

Is it just me or does buying a monitor now days largely feel like purchasing snake oil? There is no real standardized way to actually make sure you’re getting what you’re really getting. A larger resolution wouldn’t hurt too… They could do that with IPS too, but I don’t think the panel would cooperate. Now if only a good company started offering this in TN with 120hz refresh rates and 2ms response times (without overdrive and a processing bypass setting). They simply could’ve just added it to the base.

They had to slap their name on the front of it. Too bad they interrupted it with the bezel at the bottom. If AOC is willing to be disingenuous about the width of the 23-incher’s bezels, I wouldn’t be surprised if the "8-bit" specification were also a stretch. TFT Central’s review of AOC’s similar 27" model confirms the wider border and notes that the 27" panel is a 6-bit + FRC affair. Although the bezel surrounding the display glass is very thin, the actual picture doesn’t begin until 10 mm from the edge of the glass, producing an effective bezel width of 12 mm. Update: Thanks to the commenters who pointed out that AOC may be playing games with semantics. There’s a couple of 2W speakers, as well, but you’ll probably want to leave those unplugged. It also sports VGA and HDMI inputs, complete with HDCP support for the latter.
#Edge blending eyefinity 1080p#
As one might expect, this puppy has a 1080p display resolution. The specifications in the press release don’t mention the display’s luminance, but the contrast ratio is claimed to be 50,000,000:1, and the response time is pegged at 5 ms. Let’s hope AOC doesn’t think using FRC magically transforms 6-bit panels into 8-bit ones. The press release posted by Engadet claims the IPS unit is an "FRC 8-bit panel that supports 16.7 million colors." FRC refers to Frame Rate Control, a technique often used to improve the color reproduction of 6-bit panels. The underlying panel looks promising, too. Say hello to the "virtually borderless" i2367fh, which has a bezel just two millimeters thick and a street price of only $190.Īlthough the new model isn’t yet listed on AOC’s website, the display is already in stock at Amazon. AOC has a new 23" monitor that addresses both concerns. The extra monitors add to the cost, of course, and it’s impossible to escape the fact that bezels interrupt the image presented to the user. Triple-screen setups are pretty awesome for gaming.
