Westinghouse Digital Ships New 1080p 37-inch LCD Monitor

[Audioholics]

<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/pressreleases/Westinghouse37LCD1080p.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 100px; HEIGHT: 100px" alt=[WestinghouseDigital37W11] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/WestinghouseDigital37W11_th.jpg" align=left border=0></A>Westinghouse Digital Electronics</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> today announced the availability of its 37-inch LCD HD Video monitor, the largest monitor to date in the line. The new monitor is part of the Westinghouse Digital 1080p resolution line. Westinghouse Digital is one of few LCD providers offering a 37-inch HD-Grade monitor with over two million pixels. This 37-inch LCD monitor offers faster response times, better brightness, wider viewing angles and higher contrast ratios than their older LCD panel technology. The 37-inch monitor's estimated retail price is $2,299.</FONT></P><P><FONT face=Arial size=2>[Get Details &amp; Specs]</FONT></P>

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

1080p and 12ms response time. Very nice.

 

[Jaycan]

I owe a lot to Westinghouse. Our first tv when I was a kid was a little B&W westinghouse, but it became my eyes to the world, from Sesame street after school to evening matinees and news. I thought the brand was dead, but it seems revived and producing state of the art monitors. Jolly good show!

 

[soundjunkie]

The question that has come up on other 1080p sets is if it can accept a 1080p input....

I know when the 1080 sets started showing up, everyone kept talking about the inability to accept 1080p. I'm not sure if I misunderstood or not, but since then I bought a 720p set in hopes of a year or so upgrading to the 1080p when more components utilize the full HD capabilities...

Correct me if I misunderstood....

 

[Turranx]

I purchased this Monitor recently. It's ...um... big. I'm putting together a computer based home theater and what drew me to this model is the ability to connect a computer via DVI and the walloping number of pixels available.

When I connected this monitor to the ATi 9600XT DVI port, the computer recognized the new resolutions offered (including several of the interlaced formats) and allowed me to select 1920x1080 (progressive) and run it at 60Hz. I suppose I could pick a higher refresh rate, but haven't had a reason to do so. After all, LCDs don't flicker like CRTs do.

So what do all these pixels buy me? Smooth color gradiants when you take a non-HD source and blow it up to life size. I watch movies using Media Player Classic (MPC); a free program that offers incredible flexibiltiy through 3rd party audio and video filters (also free). Regular definition movies on played on MPC are automatically resized using one of the scaling algorithms and video filters. The algorithms and filters available through a default installation of MPC even allow you to tap into the Pixel Shaders v2.0 of your 3D graphics card (if your card has enough muscle to push all 2.1 megapixels of this Westinghouse monitor; so be aware, YMMV).

The objection I experienced when looking at other large TV over 30 inches (read: plasma) is they look pixelated or blocky; even when viewed from a distance. Of course plasma TVs do have a superior contrast ratio and perform out-of-the-box wonderfully well. This leads me to the one fault I've found with this Westinghouse: the default settings result in a washed out picture. By tweaking the brightness, contrast, saturation, & backlight controls you can improve the display ten-fold. However, to get the most out of this monitor, I will be investing in a monitor calibration device like the ColorVision® Spyder2. Calibration devices like this create custom color profiles that alter the colors drawn by your video card so they show up true to life on your monitor. It does for color what graphic equalizers do for sound.

Check back in a month or so when I've got this bad boy calibrated.