14 DAY TRIAL // Moving temporarily away from the way display makers usually do things, AOC enacted a plan that ended up producing a special sort of monitor, one that bears the name of e2251Fwu.
Monitors, for the most part, are fairly straightforward devices, but there are times when a model decides to step out of the norm by adopting some extra functionality or different way of approaching its task.
This extends to more than variations to regular assets, like resolution, 3D, image quality etc.
In this case, it is AOC that decided to stand apart form the fold by developing the e2251Fwu, a monitor that differs from most of tis peers by virtue of its connectivity.
Normally, a display connects to PCs or multimedia players and the like via VGA, DVI, HMDI or DisplayPort.
In fact, the common monitor has at least two different connectors, which means that AOC's new creation is anything but ordinary, since it forgoes all the standard inputs in favor of the USB (universal Serial Bus) interface.
This does ensure some level of universal compatibility, since the USB standard has made it to almost every sort of electronic.
Still, it also implies some image quality and performance limitations, although one wouldn't think it when reading the rest of the spec sheet.
Not only is the 1,920 x 1,080 pixels resolution (Full HD) supported, but AOC's screen has a contrast ratio of 1,000:1, the 16:9 aspect ratio, a response time of 5 ms and a brightness of 200 cd/m2.
Finally, the AOC e2251Fwu has a diagonal length of 22 inches and will supposedly get the power needed by the LED backlight by using two USB cables.
Unfortunately, there is, at the moment, no sort of information on the price and it doesn't look like the mystery will be unraveled any time soon, what with availability only scheduled for August 2011.