Gateway’s Quad-HD 30″ Display – Damn…
May 10, 2008 by Zach Flauaus
Filed under Electronics
Gateway has opened the gates to a new display of theirs, and this time, it’s a Quad-HD display. Featuring HDMI, single and dual-link DVI-D, VGA, component, S-Video (Really?), and composite (Are you serious??), this monitor has got it all. The Gateway XHD3000 includes a Silicon Optix video processing chipset for it to present 1600p video in shiny goodness. The monitor also includes integrated speakers Gateway is touting as “advanced 3D sound pouring from eight high-performance speakers.” Yeah… Haven’t heard that many integrated speakers that are “high-performance.”
As always, you can hook up your consoles and other peripherals to the display as well as your computer at native 2560×1600 resolution. I have one small question/snippet to add: Why is Gateway touting this display as the first Quad-HD display? I’m assuming they’re saying that because of the HDMI and friends, but Apple (and even Dell) beat them to the table in terms of resolution years ago. One of life’s many mysteries… Available now for $1699.
Via [Today's Review]
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What moron comes up with theses resolution names? The whole industry is out there touting 1920×1080p as “True HD” and this thing isn’t even CLOSE to 4x that (3840×2160). Okay, in theory this thing could display 4 720p pictures (2560×1440), but is it going to vertically stretch the 1440 to fit the 1600??? You can’t magically invent an extra 80 lines per 720p picture, and I’m unaware of anything called “800p”. Plus this is ANOTHER funky 16:10 display in a world that is standardizing on 16:9. *SIGH*