14 DAY TRIAL // With the Chinese Lunar New Year and the generally slow first quarter, there have been hardly any hardware announcements over the past week, but this doesn't seem to have stopped LG from updating its monitor lineup.
While some products did see the light of day, so to speak, over the past week, the IT industry is still more or less quiet compared to its usual self.
Even NVIDIA's GeForce GT 440 made its incursion into the consumer market more or less silently.
Now, LG Japan has made an announcement of its own, or at least offered some information on a certain display solution set to reach stores sooner rather than later.
The product in question is the newest addition to the Flatron line and bears the name of IPS206T-PN.
As its name implies, it features an IPS (in-plane-switching) panel, the main purpose of it being to provide very wide viewing angles.
As some may remember, the early models of LCDs (liquid crystal displays) had a distinct disadvantage in the fairly narrow viewing angles.
This issue has been mostly corrected (years ago), but there are still certain ways that one's display can have a wider visibility than others.
In this case, the IPS panel places the horizontal and vertical viewing angles at 178 degrees.
This isn't its only asset, however, as LG also made sure to implement white LED backlighting, which grants a dynamic contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1, as well as a low power draw.
The screen size is of 20 inches, while the native resolution is of 1,600 x 900 pixels. This means that Full HD media won't exactly be supported.
Other specifications include a brightness of 250 cd/m2, a DVI port and a D-Sub input, plus a black casing and a response time of 6ms.
Sales of the LG Flatron IPS206T-PN should start in a few days, for the price of 17,000 yen, which is the equivalent of roughly $208.