Acer G24 LCD Touts World’s Highest Contrast

By Geoff Duncan Published July 4, 2008

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Acer has officially announced its new G24 LCD display, which the company claims has the highest contrast ratio to be found in any LCD monitor on the planet: 50,000:1. The display is designed to complement the orange-and-black motif of its Aspire Predator gaming PC rigs, along with technologies designed to reduce ambient light reflection and backlight diffusion.

The G24 offers a 1,920 by 1,200-pixel native resolution, HDMI connectivity for hooking up to PCs, set-top boxes, and game consoles, along with Acer’s OD overdrive technology to improve grey-to-grey transition times. Acer claims the monitor sports a 2 ms response time, along with 400 nits of brightness. The G24 also offers complete access to display settings from a single button, smart display rotation software (for Windows), and eColor Management for easy adjusting of color output values.

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Unfortunately, Acer hasn’t announced a price or street date for the G24; we can’t imagine it’s going to be cheap.

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