today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the Acer v233h
ajbd this is a 23in widescreen monitor
it has 1080p resolution and it is a 16x9
monitor so that means that it is perfect and even I would say ideal for watching
HD content on your computer because you can run it completely unscaled so at
full resolution and also if you have 16x9 content which would be the standard
then you will not be seeing any black bars along the top and bottom of the
picture so let's have a look at the accessories that are included with it
this is a pretty value oriented monitor but it still comes with a fair number of
accessories so you got both of your cables included VGA as well as DVI so
VGA and DVI cables then you've also got a power cable this monitor has an
internal uh inverter so that means that you do not have to have an external
power brick with it next we've actually there that was it we've just got the
monitor itself so I'm just going to turn this over and dump it out it is
compatible with Windows 7 according to the box which I'm flipping
over right now and there goes the base
that was fun okay so the Box goes down here the base goes
here it has a very simple base so it doesn't feature swivel or tilt or any of
those fancy features but what it does have is solidity going for it like I
said it's a fairly basic monitor but the reality of it is if you're looking for
sort of a high resolution reasonably big
screen it's a 23 in then this is probably pretty much what you're looking
for so let's just open this up here and
then we've got a little cover over top of the screen so I'm just going to sorry
let me just bear with me here while I remove this and then we'll put this
monitor together and I'm actually unboxing this so that I can do a bit of
a comparison between a conventional cathode backlit LCD and an LED backlit
LCD so here let me just throw this on here and the first thing that we're
going to look at in our comparison is going to be the width because that is
one of the coolest things about Led backlight technology so check this out
okay so yes it does have tilt actually I take that back it has tilt in fact they
both have tilt okay so there you go that
is how much thinner an LED backlit display is because instead of having
these big tube lights in the back here it's actually just got individual LEDs
cameraman wants to have like sort of a better look at it oh yeah I see I see
why you want to do that okay so anyway that's it for my comparison you'll have
to watch the full NCIX Tech tips episode but we're going to look at sort of power
consumption as well as the differences in contrast ratio color reproduction as
well as thickness obviously here is where all of our onscreen controls are
so you got menu auto adjust uh navigating the menus as well as your
power button and that pretty much covers the oh cameraman wants me to turn it
around yeah because that do totally doesn't cover it so here at the back we've got ventilation because those
lights do get quite hot that's yet another thing that you do not find on
the back of an LED backlit LCD we have four screws for our Visa Mount so if you
wanted to mount this to something like uh actually this would be a perfect
thing to mount on that cool ITX case that I unboxed a while back where it's
got a little ARM coming out of the top of the case and you just mount a monitor
on it so that'd be a perfect use for something like this here's your power in
as well as your DVI and VGA inputs it
does have a Kensington lock Port here so if you have H security concerns about
where this monitor is going to be placed then that would be a good way to secure
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