Acer Announces a Brand New 23.6 Inch 3D Display Monitor with Nvidia Graphics
Acer Announces a Brand New 23.6 Inch 3D Display Monitor with Nvidia Graphics
Posted 02/02/2010 at 6:03am
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Ready or not, the 3D revolution has begun, and that means a deluge of related product announcements. Such is the case with Acer's 23.6-inch GD235HZ 3D-capable display.
Lame name aside, Acer's first foray into 3D-capable monitors serves up 1,920x1,080 pixels along with a 120Hz refresh rate. But it's the 3D that's of most interest, and to help give images an extra dimension, you'll need to don a pair of Nvidia's 3D Vision active-shutter glasses.
"As 3D content becomes more widely available in popular games and videos, users desire computing products that can take advantage of these new capabilities," said Acer America's senior product marketing manager Irene Chan. "We are excited to offer Acer's first monitor to support 3D technology."
Other specs include an 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio; 300cd/m2 of brightness; a 2ms response time; over 72 percent of the NTSC color gamut; and HDMI, DVI, and VGA inputs.
Acer plans to start shipping the GD235HZ this month for $400. Tack on another $200 for Nvidia's 3D Vision Kit.
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ASIANgaminFrEaK
February 05, 2010 at 10:03am
I have used the Nvidia 3d vision, and they are on a completely different scale of how well the 3d works with this product, as opposed to the 3d option on the video cards. they also work with everything, including movies if you wanted to, because the display cable goes through the 3d imaging device, so there is nothing to set up, just push a button and the screen goes into 3d mode.
I highly recommend them to those who dont care for price as much...
JohnP
February 02, 2010 at 11:55am
You can use the colored glasses on any ordinary monitor. Just go into the Nvidia Control Panel and start the Stereoscopic 3D. Grab your red and blue colored glasses (Amazon has them) and run one of the supported games. For instance, World of Warcraft works just fine.
IMHO, it is not that big of deal. Yes, it works. Washes the colors out and makes it dimmer though. It really does not add much to the game and I would hate to try anything that involves high speed running and gunning. These are pretty much the same complaints that the "true" NVidia shutter glasses have gotten.
So try it out! It's free and you have it already!
ArrecBarrwin
February 02, 2010 at 12:32pm
Are you kidding? They are completely different technologies, it will not work at all.
JohnP
February 02, 2010 at 5:11pm
Someone was asking about trying out 3D. The anaglyph 3D (or whater the red/blue glasses are called) works on most of the NVidia graphics cards and quite a few games. No, this is NOT the NVidia 120Hzmonitors/ shutterglass 3D that they are talking about here. But at least you can try out 3D RIGHT NOW with only the cost of a red/blue pair of glasses ( I prefer the Hanna Montana sets from Amazon).
Do I need to tell you how to access this on the NVidia Control Panel or can you figure it out all by yourself?
lunchbox73
February 02, 2010 at 9:04am
Has anybody actually tried this fancy shmancy 3D stuff? I haven't seen any demos in stores or anything. I've yet to see a 3D movie that seem to be the rage these days either.
quickone
February 02, 2010 at 7:31am
3D is one thing I am completely not interested in. I'd rather see HD get developed more then maybe 3D further down the line, until I don't need those glasses it isn't happening for me
~~The difference between insanity and genius is merely succes~~
DBsantos77
February 02, 2010 at 8:57am
I read somewhere, maybe even here at MPC, that there are models that have 3D output without glasses. I remember it being pricy though..
-Santos
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