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I love my big telly

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4 Jul 12th, 2001 

8 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

Advantages:
clear picture, comprehensive menus,

Disadvantages:
quite expensive

Recommendable Yes:

andyev

andyev

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Hi I'm Andy and as you can see I am a keen skydiver! I work in IT in Leeds and I hate bad service!!...

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My big telly is an Eizo FlexScan F980. I'd just like to quickly point out that this is the screen I use at work - I probably couldn't afford to buy one for home use!

The monitor is big, at 20 inch diagonal - and has a massive depth to match - so it may not be convenient for a small space.

The monitor offers the usual ergonomic feature of an adjustable base - which allows you to tilt the screen up and down, left and right, to attain the optimum viewing position.

The FlexScan has been awarded a number of awards and is Energy Star compliant - what this basically means is that if the screen image is static for any length of time, it switches itself off to conserve power - you will hardly every notice this feature though, as it takes half an hour.

Technical burst: The dot pitch of 0.23 mm (horizontal pitch is 0.20 mm) makes for a very sharp image and the monitor has and a horizontal scanning range of 30 - 137 KHz to allow a maximum resolution of 2048 x 1536 (perfect for use with Computer Aided Design) and has a flicker-free refresh rate of 85 Hz. It has in-built functions such as Color Correction and video bypass circuitry. Phew!

The control buttons on the monitor are neatly stowed beneath the screen and consist an on/off switch and a strange "playstation" like pad with a left, right, up, down and centre button. This is used to navigate an array of on-screen menus to control the normal bits and pieces such as colour, brightness, left position, height of image and all the Christmas trimmings.

There are the standard SVGA inputs, together with a BNC input and D-SUB - so this monitor is perfect if you want to do some video work.

The icons on the on screen menu are a bit confusing - but once you have got the hang of things they are not difficult to use - and once you have got the monitor configured to your favourite settings, there is very little need to ever adjust them anyway.

This monitor is certainly not cheap: but if you have a few quid spare and you want a nicely designed monitor with an excellent picture quality - you could do far worse. 

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Comments about this review »

tendril- 14.07.2001 20:01

I was wondering how expensive it is exactly...? Very good op anyway! : )

shearerm 12.07.2001 12:46

Good op. I would like to know what the maximum supportable resolution colours etc are and how the monitor performs at these settings.





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