Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market, today announced the slick new Acer 23-inch widescreen display and Acer Aspire desktop PC line-up for customers in the United States. The Aspire desktops range from several compact models to an aggressively designed, power-packed gaming system.
Featuring a new form factor, the Acer H233H bmid 23-inch display offers cinematic quality with sleek styling. This new display provides excellent picture quality, boasting a 16:9 aspect ratio for maximum HD support, a high contrast ratio and fast response time. The glossy black bezel adds an extra design element that looks attractive in any homeor office.
The desktop PC line features the compact, yet powerful Acer Aspire X3200, X1700 and X1200 small form factor (SFF) PCs outfitted with 3 to 4GB of memory. The newest member is the Aspire X1700, which boasts an Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor and 4GB DDR2 memory, for extremely fast system response."The new 23-inch display offers users the best HD support available with a sleek new form factor and advanced features, making it ideal for a variety of viewing needs," said Stephanie Eggert, Senior Manager, Retail Desktop Product Planning for Acer America. "Boasting NVIDIA GeForce G100 graphics with DirectX 10 support, the new Aspire X1700 delivers stunning performance in a compact chassis. The powerful processor and graphics combination on our SFF desktops and Predator gaming PCs infuse games, movies and photos with rich, lifelike images."

Sleek Display Provides Cinematic Quality for Entertaining and Productivity
Combining form and function, the Acer H233H bmid 23-inch widescreen high-definition LCD display offers consumers superb high-definition picture quality in a sleek design. The display also features SensorTouch technology, a touch-sensing solution with effortless settings for one-touch convenience. The LED illuminated controls replace the buttons that are standard on many displays. These intuitive controls maintain the product's streamlined look, while automatically sensing contact with the lightest touch.

Whether playing games, watching movies, creating digital content or working, the Acer H233H bmid provides excellent visual quality. It delivers the maximum level of HD support with a 16:9 aspect ratio and a 1920x1080 resolution, making it ideal for viewing the latest high-definition video, movies and digital content.

To further enhance visual performance, the Acer H233H features a 40,000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness and a 5ms response time. It also offers 160-degree horizontal and vertical viewing angles for an improved viewing experience. Additionally, the display supports VGA and HDMI as well as DVI (with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) for viewing digital movies, digital photos, PC files and copy protected content.

To boost the visual experience of movies and games, the Acer H233H bmid also comes with two premium speakers for high-performance sound.

Feature Rich, Compact Desktops
For ease and practicality, the Aspire X1200, X1700 and X3200 SFF desktops as well as the Aspire Predator gaming PC are designed with the card reader, audio jacks and ports located conveniently on the front of the chassis to provide easy access. The Aspire X1200, X1700 and X3200 towers measure just 10.4-inches (H) x 4-inches (W) x 14.4-inches (L).

Newest Model: Aspire X1700 - Power-Packed SFF
Packed with power and performance, the newest model in the line, the Aspire X1700 features an Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor E2200, which enables users to enjoy crystal-clear digital media, create advanced graphics, and handle productivity tasks with ease and speed. The 4GB DDR2 memory provides ultra-fast system response, critical for multitasking and power hungry applications. Integrated NVIDIA GeForce graphics enhance multimedia performance with support for the latest DirectX games. Connect directly to an external LCD or flat-screen TV with HDMI for crisp, high-quality visuals and high-fidelity audio using only one cable.

With nine USB 2.0 ports and a multi-in-one card reader, users can easily bring multimedia devices together. The huge 640GB SATA II hard drive provides enough room to store a vast library of music, movies and games. Watch movies and burn DVDs and CDs with the SuperMulti Drive. With Labelflash technology, personalize CDs by laser burning unique, high-resolution transparent images directly on the label side of discs right after they're burned.

Gaming PC: Radical Design, Ready for Combat
The Aspire Predator G7710 desktop PC series was designed to fire up gamers with its aggressive design, performance and price. This striking gaming rig pushes performance limits. It boasts a very powerful Intel i7-940 processor, a whopping 6GB DDR3 memory and an entire terabyte of storage for housing even the most graphic intensive games and movies. It's also outfitted with a cutting-edge cooling system and RAID 0, 1, 5, 1+0 modes for keeping data secure. Action packed, this feature-rich machine comes armed with accessories, including a specially designed gaming mouse and a multimedia keyboard with keys that light up for play in the dark.

Specifications, Pricing and Availability
Acer's newest display and Aspire desktop PCs are available at technology and electronics retailers. The display is available for $299.99 and the Aspire desktop PCs prices start at $409.99. The Aspire Predator gaming PCs are available with prices starting at $2,299.99. Following are a couple of featured configurations.

Acer H233H bmid 23-inch LCD display: Available now for a MSRP of $229.99

* 23-inch Widescreen
* 0.265mm Pixel Pitch
* 1920x1080 (Native and Maximum) Resolution
* 75Hz (Maximum) Refresh Rate
* 5ms Response Time
* 40000:1 Max (ACM) Contrast Ratio
* 300cd/m2 Brightness
* 160° (H)/160° (V) Viewing Angles
16.7 Million Colors
* 6 + Hi-FRC Bits
* 1x HDMI, 1x DVI (HDCP), 1x VGA Inputs
* (2) 1.5 W Speakers
* Vesa 100MM Wall Mount
* Internal Power Supply
* Energy Star Compliant

Acer Aspire X1700-U3700A: Available now for a MSRP of $479.99

* Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E2200 (2.4GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
* Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit with SP1
* 4096MB DDR2 Memory
* NVIDIA GeForce 7100 Chipset and nForce 630i
* Integrated NVIDIA GeForce G100 with 512MB Discrete Graphic Card
* 640GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive
* Super Multi Double-Layer DVD+RW, DVD-RAM Drive Featuring Labelflash Technology
* 14-in-One Digital Media Card Reader
* 9 USB 2.0 Ports (5 Front, 4 Rear)
* HDMI Port
* eSATA Port
* Amplified Stereo Speakers (USB Powered)
* Acer USB Keyboard
* USB Optical Mouse

Philips breaks new ground in the realm of home entertainment with the world’s first cinema-proportioned LCD television. Cinema 21:9 lets you enjoy movies as you would in the cinema and just as the director intended. Cinema 21:9 boasts a 56” screen that is shaped in the 21:9 aspect ratio, so movies in the 2.39:1 format completely fill the screen – exactly as you experience at the cinema. Complimentary three-sided Ambilight Spectra combines with the on-screen action to completely immerse you in the movie and deliver the ultimate home cinematic viewing experience.

Traditional LCD televisions compromise on this experience by distorting the picture to fill the screen – losing the full scope of the original shot – or by displaying the picture in letterbox format with black bars at the top and bottom. Cinema 21:9 solves these issues to give the viewer an uncompromised and absorbing cinematic viewing experience, never before available in the home.

Using highly advanced formatting technology, regular 16:9 content from sources such as TV broadcasts and games consoles is also adapted to fill the 21:9 screen.

Des Power, Senior Vice President Marketing Television, Philips Consumer Lifestyle, commented: “With our unique Cinema 21:9 we have developed a television which takes you as close to the experience that you enjoy at the cinema as you can get without buyinga ticket. We believe that to really become absorbed in watching a film at home consumers are looking for a real cinematic viewing experience, so we have launched the world’s first cinema-proportioned TV screen perfectly complemented by our immersive Ambilight technology.”

He added, “Philips new Cinema 21:9 takes enjoying movies at home to an entirely new level, the advantages over a traditional 16:9 ratio screen in side by side comparisons are truly striking.”

The Cinema 21:9 LCD TV will be available in spring 2009. More detailed product specifications will follow at the end of February 2009.

AUO recently announced a 24-inch full-HD 1080p LCD panel aimed at the combined usage of viewing high definition videos and desktop monitor applications.

The 1080p display capability provides high image quality for Blu-ray video playback or HDTV viewing and solves the problem of distorted image when playing such high definition content on LCDs with conventional 16:10 1680x1050 WSXGA+ or 1920x1200 WUXGA resolutions. For more information subscribe in the email.