Philips 240PW9 review
Professional display with excellent performance With high resolution,
legible text size, a larger viewing area widest color range up to 102% for
natural and accurate color reproduction. This Philips 240PW9 boots your
business productivity - and is ready for upgrade to Windows Vista.
SmartImage: Optimized user friendly display experience SmartImage is an
exclusive, leading edge Philips technology that analyzes the content
displayed on your screen. Based on a scenario you select, SmartImage
dynamically enhances the contrast, color saturation and sharpness of images
and videos for ultimate display performance - all in real time with the
press on a single button.
Display for Natural, Accurate color reproduction WideColor is an LCD
monitor that puts powerful, enhanced wide color gamut cold cathode
florescent lamp back lighting and superior processing to work to expand the
color range from the 72% of the NTSC color gamut reproduced by standard LCD
panels to 102% or above, dramatically improving color purity and saturation
to display natural, brilliant color.
SmartContrast: For incredible rich black details SmartContrast is Philips
technology that analyzes the contents you are displaying, automatically
adjusting colors and controlling backlight intensity to dynamically enhance
contrast for the best digital images and optimum contrast for more
entertainment fun when viewing videos or playing games where dark hues are
displayed; when you select the Economy mode, contrast is adjusted and
backlighting fine-tuned for just-right display of everyday office
applications and lower power consumption.
DVI-D input and HDCP support High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection
(HDCP) is a copyright protection system that is incorporated into the DVI
connector. It helps stop unauthorized duplication of copyrighted content.
HDCP allows you to play protected content media such as movies and
concerts. It checks the signal to prevent piracy, allowing only legal
copies of content to display.
Green design conserves resources and reduces operating costs Green design
is based on environmentally conscious engineering of a display device to
minimize power consumption, reduce packing materials and eliminate
environmentally sensitive materials.
1920 x 1200 resolution: Ideal for two A4 pages side-by-side Wide format of
Ultra Extended Graphics Array, a display specification that is capable of
displaying 1920 x 1200 resolution, or approximately 2.3 million pixels.
Extra wide view display: 178 degree angle for image accuracy The widest
viewing angle up to 178 degree provides the clearest display from any
angles.
Dual input accepts both analog VGA and digital DVI signals Dual input
provides connectors to accommodate input of both analog VGA and digital DVI
signals.
Hassle-free display performance tuning with SmartControl II SmartControl II
is monitor-based software with an easy-to-use on-screen graphic interface
that guides you through fine-tuning resolution, color calibration and other
display settings including brightness, contrast, clock & phase,
position, RGB, white point and - on models with onboard speakers - volume
adjustments.
Auto picture format control switching in wide and 4:3 format Philips auto
picture format control on OSD is to switch from the 4:3 aspect ratio to the
widescreen mode and back again to match the display’s aspect ratio
with your content for working with wide documents without scrolling or
viewing widescreen media in the widescreen mode and distortion-free, native
mode display of 4:3 ratio content.