P223W Widescreen TFT Monitor
This site is all about the outstanding P223W Crystalbrite Widescreen TFT Monitor from Acer.
The Acer P223W 22 Crystalbrite widescreen monitor is a TFT type monitor. You'll also see it described as a TFT LCD widescreen monitor.
What's the difference between TFT and LCD?
The terms TFT and LCD are often used together and interchangeably, but there is a subtle difference. TFT is a type of LCD output, but much better than the original LCD.
LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display, and TFT for Thin Film Transistor. The TFT display technology was developed by IBM.
The original old style LCD monitors had a slow refresh rate and were prone to blur moving items on screen, while the much better TFT has a faster refresh rate for a better display.
TFT monitors are often called flat panel displays, and they are slowly but surely replacing the old style "glass" or cathode ray tubes (CRTs) on people's desktops. Nearly all LCD monitors today use TFT technology.
TFT monitors are better than LCD because they use a separate tiny transistor for each pixel on the display, and because each transistor is so small, the amount of charge needed to control it is also very small. This is what enables the very fast refresh (re-draw) of the display, as the pixels are switched on and off very quickly and the entire image is re-painted on your screen tens of times per second.
Before TFT, the LCD displays couldn't keep up with fast moving images because of the passive matrix method used to display each pixel. So for example, if you moved your mouse cursor across the screen, you would see a blurred image, or in the worst cases on very slow displays the pointer would disappear altogether until you stopped moving the mouse.
In contrast, a TFT monitor with its faster refresh rate can correctly display the pointer at all positions on as you move it across the screen, giving a much smoother transition from one point to another.
This makes TFT monitors like the Acer P223W have a display that enables you to watch videos and play fast moving games.
The resolution on the P223W is 1680 wide x 1050 high or put another way approximately 1.7 million pixels which means 1.7 million transistors.
A TFT monitor delivers crisp text, vibrant color and an improved response time for multimedia applications. If interested in gaming, video editing or other multimedia applications, look for a TFT monitor with a response rate of 16ms or less.
You've probably already read the details about the Acer P223W TFT Monitor but you need look no further than the rave reviews it's been receiving.
Acer P223W
"Quality wise, its superb. Bright, almost too bright, I've turned down the settings to 'text' mode so that its a little duller. But that's my personal preference. No evidence of pixel bleed, everything is bright and sharp. Colour balance is similar to the MacBooks, although I'm not a print professional. I wanted something for coding and looking at lots of text, not for watching videos or playing games. Having said that, video playback is superb. I've just realised that the BBC's iPlayer, when watched from across the room, is a fantastic resource and now understand why video on demand will work one day. Apple's film trailers look superb from 3 feet away."