Eizo and Totuku monitors shine with today’s technology
March 12, 2010
Eizo is not a new player in big-size LCD display market. Today the firm updated it’s portfolio with a new 24-inch full HD monitor for colorblind people. Eizo is hoping to set a new benchmark for artists, video editors and other color-conscious computer users with the launch of the ColorEdge Quietly introduced at the PMA photo expo but made public today, the 30-inch Flexscan LCD monitors is fashioned to be as faithful as possible to the color ranges that appear in most video: courtesy of 12-bit colour search and 16-bit color processing, the display captures 100 percent of the NTSC gamut and 97 percent of Adobe’s RGB color space, insuring that a few if any colors will be botched even in photo editing. Eizo is renowned for its often specialized monitors. The company rejoins with 2 new FlexScan LCDs that anticipate to cover 95% of the Adobe RGB colour space (and 92% of the NTSC colour gamut).
Totoku’s 22.2-inch CCL901 has a maximum resolution of 3,840 x 2,400 at 24-bit colour, which works out to about 9.2 megapixels and 200 dpi. The company says this single- or dual-DVI LCD has a native gamma of 1.8 and 500-Kelvin backlights, which we sincerely hope stands for something to Photoshop buffs out there. Their web site states that the ME551i2 totoku monitors is capable of presentation 2048 tones of gray (per sub-pixel) with an integrated viewer. The ME551i2 has a 11.9-bit lookup table (LUT) that allows a pallet of 3826 shades of gray and can display 2048 tones with a specialized view and 256 shades without. Totoku displays are comprised of high luminance, high contrast ratios, great viewing angles, and a long life backlight. All Totoku displays include a removable stand, and are fully height adaptable with a tilt-swivel base.
Liquid crystals are almost exactly what they sound like: crystalline structures clad in a liquid. When electricity is run through a LCD array, the crystals either enlarge or reduce, depending on the signal. Liquid crystals in 2mp medical monitor act as a dynamic polarise agent. They change their orientation when you position a voltage across an LCD cell.