Acer V233H AJBD 23IN Widescreen 1080p LCD Monitor Black Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the Acer v233h
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ajbd this is a 23in widescreen monitor
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it has 1080p resolution and it is a 16x9
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monitor so that means that it is perfect and even I would say ideal for watching
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HD content on your computer because you can run it completely unscaled so at
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full resolution and also if you have 16x9 content which would be the standard
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then you will not be seeing any black bars along the top and bottom of the
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picture so let's have a look at the accessories that are included with it
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this is a pretty value oriented monitor but it still comes with a fair number of
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accessories so you got both of your cables included VGA as well as DVI so
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VGA and DVI cables then you've also got a power cable this monitor has an
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internal uh inverter so that means that you do not have to have an external
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power brick with it next we've actually there that was it we've just got the
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monitor itself so I'm just going to turn this over and dump it out it is
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compatible with Windows 7 according to the box which I'm flipping
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over right now and there goes the base
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that was fun okay so the Box goes down here the base goes
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here it has a very simple base so it doesn't feature swivel or tilt or any of
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those fancy features but what it does have is solidity going for it like I
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said it's a fairly basic monitor but the reality of it is if you're looking for
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sort of a high resolution reasonably big
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screen it's a 23 in then this is probably pretty much what you're looking
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for so let's just open this up here and
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then we've got a little cover over top of the screen so I'm just going to sorry
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let me just bear with me here while I remove this and then we'll put this
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monitor together and I'm actually unboxing this so that I can do a bit of
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a comparison between a conventional cathode backlit LCD and an LED backlit
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LCD so here let me just throw this on here and the first thing that we're
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going to look at in our comparison is going to be the width because that is
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one of the coolest things about Led backlight technology so check this out
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okay so yes it does have tilt actually I take that back it has tilt in fact they
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both have tilt okay so there you go that
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is how much thinner an LED backlit display is because instead of having
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these big tube lights in the back here it's actually just got individual LEDs
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cameraman wants to have like sort of a better look at it oh yeah I see I see
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why you want to do that okay so anyway that's it for my comparison you'll have
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to watch the full NCIX Tech tips episode but we're going to look at sort of power
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consumption as well as the differences in contrast ratio color reproduction as
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well as thickness obviously here is where all of our onscreen controls are
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so you got menu auto adjust uh navigating the menus as well as your
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power button and that pretty much covers the oh cameraman wants me to turn it
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around yeah because that do totally doesn't cover it so here at the back we've got ventilation because those
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lights do get quite hot that's yet another thing that you do not find on
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the back of an LED backlit LCD we have four screws for our Visa Mount so if you
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wanted to mount this to something like uh actually this would be a perfect
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thing to mount on that cool ITX case that I unboxed a while back where it's
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got a little ARM coming out of the top of the case and you just mount a monitor
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on it so that'd be a perfect use for something like this here's your power in
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as well as your DVI and VGA inputs it
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does have a Kensington lock Port here so if you have H security concerns about
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where this monitor is going to be placed then that would be a good way to secure
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it thank you for checking out my unboxing today and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips as well as
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