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Productivity-boosting big screens get cheaper

Fri, 2008-09-19 16:00 — tekro
GREEN HOUSE GH-JEF223SH

Name: GREEN HOUSE GH-JEF223SH  
Category: computer display
Price: JPY36,800
Release date in Japan: Late September, 2008

Still computing on one small screen? Once in a while the tech blogs will go a-twitter over the latest study linking screen real estate to productivity. Findings vary with the tasks and the physical setups measured, but the reported numbers are always impressive. A University of Utah study earlier this year, for example, claimed that compared to office productivity tasks performed on an 18-inch monitor, a 24-inch screen sped up those tasks by 52%, while two 20-inch monitors granted a 44% improvement. More screen space can save workers as much as two and a half hours a day, concluded the study.

(Big caveats: those findings assume eight hours of tasks that are dependent on screen real estate - and the study was funded by display manufacturer NEC.)

Even if your productivity gains don't stand to be as impressive, few people who move to big and/or multiple monitors care to switch back to small. Fortunately for upgraders, screens keep getting cheaper. Case in point: the low-cost 22-inch GH-JEF223SH display from GREEN HOUSE. It's a WSXGA (1680x1050), 24-bit (16.7 million colors) screen with a luminance of 300cd/m2, contrast ratio of 1000:1 (10,000:1 in enhanced mode), HDMI and regular mini D-sub 15-pin connectors, and built-in 2W+2W speakers.

If you're willing to spend a little more, BUFFALO will release the FTD-HD2232HSR/BK around the same time. It's also 22 inches, but sports WUXGA (1920x1200) resolution, and has a DVI-D24-pin connector for HDCP-protected content. Luminance, contrast, and speakers are similar to the GREEN HOUSE display, but there's no HDMI. JPY42,800.

More info (Japanese):
http://www.green-house.co.jp/products/lcd/jef223shc/

BUFFALO FTD-HD2232HSR/BK (Japanese):
http://buffalo.jp/products/catalog/display/ftd-hd2232hsr/index.html?p=sp...

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