Sony Stopping Monitor Advertising
If you have ever thought that Sony monitors are too expensive, you might have been right, but Sony has decided to pull the plug on marketing their monitors as the end of this year as they just don’t make Sony enough money. Some people are already speculating that this is in preparation for losing massive amounts of money in the Sony PlayStation 3 sales coming soon.
If you love Sony monitors, have no fear, as for now, they will still be available at specialized dealers. It does seem odd for Sony to stop hyping their monitors when they were the 10th largest manufacturer just last year.
TV? Monitor? You decide!
Sony will release next month the MFM-HT205 television-monitor combo. The 20-inch widescreen LCD screen can serve up high-definition content either from its analog TV tuner or from a computer.
The MFM-HT205 sports a 16:9 ratio 1680 x 1050 resolution LCD equipped with Sony’s ErgoBright image processing system and the company’s Xbrite coating. The display has a 6ms response time, a contrast ratio of 1600:1 and a brightness rating of 470cdpm². Sony claimed it’s got a 170° viewing angle horizontally and vertically. The screen has its own analogue TV tuner.
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The MFM-HT205 is compatible with PCs and Macs, and has S-video, component, composite, HD-15 and HDCP-compatible DVI ports on board.
The unit can also be wall-mounted–great for saving up on office space, if you so decide to use it as a computer monitor.
Sony’s new S205-series 20.1-inch LCDs
Engadget has details on two new 20.1 inch LCD’s. They both look pretty nice, and 20″ is well beyond my desk size and price range.
Sony just announced their SDM-205F and SDM-205K 20.1-inch LCD displays. Both displays feature a native resolution of 1600 x 1200, two HD15 analogue and one DVD-D digital inputs (allowing for 3 connected PCs), a “fast response time,” and a narrow bezel for some hot side-by-side monitor action. They also feature DCC-Ci which enables image fine tuning from the connected PC as well as asset management, diagnostics, and the ability to shutdown and lock the display all from a remote location. The S205K can also be rotated 90-degrees for your choice of landscape or portrait modes and sports an integrated USB-based KVM switch for controlling two (but not three apparently) PCs from a single mouse and keyboard. Pricing is not yet available — so as far as you know, you can still afford ‘em.
It is getting harder and harder to see differences between like priced models of LCD’s, but Sony is always tring to innovate. The features in this model set seem pretty cool, and I can’t wait to see competing models when these are released.
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