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Acer this week started shipping a pair of new 3D monitors for customers in North America. These include the 23.6-inch HS244HQ and 27-inch HN274H, the larger of the two Acer claims is the first to feature both Nvidia 3D Vision and HDMI 3D for connecting to PCs and CE devices. And for what it's worth, Acer says both displays offer 50 percent more power savings than competing 3D solutions.
As mentioned, the HN274H supports both HDMI 3D and Nvidia 3D Vision solutions. It sports a DVI-DL connection that provides twice the bandwidth of DVI for supporting high-resolution images when connected to a PC. Other features include a dynamic contrast ratio of 100,000,000:1, 1920x1080 screen resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, 2ms response time, 170 degrees left/right and 160 degrees up/down, and 2W speakers.
The HS244HQ offers many of the same specs, but with a 12,000,000:1 contrast ratio and just HDMI 3D. It also has a built-in IR emitter and comes with a pair of Acer brand active shutter 3D glasses.
The HS244HQ ($449) and HN274H ($689) are available now.
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Baer
April 15, 2011 at 2:00pm
I would buy three of them if they were true HD, 1920 X 1200 but not that skinny looking 1080p. I do lots more than watch videos and I really do not like the 1080p aspect.
dethdeks
April 15, 2011 at 11:52am
um dont the human eye already see in 3d so why do we still need to wear those stupid ugly glasses to view "3d" when our body's are already equiped with the equipment to view in 3d
zepontiff
April 15, 2011 at 8:52am
Can someone explain to me this 3d thing? I mean hooked up to one of those nvidia cards isn't any monitor 3d? Which also holds true for the tvs. Why should I pay triple what one of these monitors would cost without the 3d tech in them when i can pay normal price for an nvidia card with it? Am I missing something?
Biceps
April 15, 2011 at 7:12pm
It is all about the refresh rate. A standard LCD refreshes at 60 Hz - the 3D screens refresh at 120 Hz. This has a couple of benefits. Firstly, if you are using 3D mode with shutter glasses, then if the screen is refreshing at 120 Hz, you will get 60 Hz for each eye. That is how shutter glasses work. If you tried to run 3D glasses with a 60Hz (normal) LCD, either it wouldn't work at all, or you'd walk away with a splitting headache.
The second benefit is that 120Hz produces noticibly smoother video and gaming. If you use an old CRT monitor, then switch to an LCD, you'll notice that there is a huge difference in the smoothness - the old CRTs, for all their bulkiness, actually refresh at 110Hz or 120Hz, depending on the monitor. When I first started running my new LG 3D monitor in 2D mode, it was amazing how much better the framerate looked.
For more information on the difference between 2D and 3D monitors, look here: www.lmgtfy.com
dgrmouse
April 15, 2011 at 9:57am
The monitors that you're seeing branded as 3d support twice the refresh rate (whatever that means for an LCD) of a normal display, compensating for the fact that every other frame is blocked out by the shutter glasses. The elevated price is also partially explained by the inclusion of a pair of shutter glasses - such glasses are generally retailing for $150 USD or so at present.
