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Gateway XHD3000 30-inch LCD  (Source: Gateway)
Dell and HP have competition in the 30" LCD territory

Gateway today announced a new LCD PC display today, the 30" XHD3000.

The Gateway XHD3000 promises some features that are not found on other 30-inch displays from Dell and HP. One of the features Gateway promotes on the XHD3000 is the 1600p HD resolution. All 30-inch LCD displays for PC use share the same resolution of 2560 x 1600, so Gateway has nothing new to add here.

However, what Gateway is adding with its new display is a wealth of connectivity options allowing for the connection of up to six devices and the ability to upscale 1080p content from HD DVD or Blu-ray players to the 1600p resolution and an IR remote that controls up to six devices in line-of-sight.

Gateway claims the XHD3000 sports a 5 millisecond response time, though nothing in product guidances suggests the new display uses a different panel than the one found in Dell's 30" desktop offerings.  Like most high-end 30" panels on the market today, the XHD3000 sports a Samsung S-PVA panel.

Connectivity options include HDMI with HDCP, analog VGA, DVI, composite video, S-Video, component YPrPb and six USB ports. The contrast ratio is 1000:1 and the screen brightness is 400 Cd/m2.

The Gateway XHD3000 LCD is listed as available for purchase now at Gateway.com for $1,699.99. Samsung is also anticipated to launch a 30" consumer display later this year.

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1600P Upscaling
By AggressorPrime on 10/4/2007 7:43:02 PM , Rating: 3
It uses a chip to expand the image and clear it up.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20...

I wonder if any of the other companies use a similar chip and they just are not advertising it.




RE: 1600P Upscaling
By Ajax9000 on 10/4/2007 8:40:25 PM , Rating: 3
AFAIK this is the first (and so only) 2560x1600 display able to do image scaling. The Dell, HP, Apple, Samsung, etc. displays all can only do 2560x1600 over DL-DVI or 1280x800 over SL-DVI.


RE: 1600P Upscaling
By paulpod on 10/4/07, Rating: 0
RE: 1600P Upscaling
By gramboh on 10/4/2007 9:45:23 PM , Rating: 3
I'd be shocked if it doesn't offer 1:1 pixel mapping and an aspect ratio preserving scaling option. I'd assume it scales up 1080p with 16:9 and small black bars on the top/bottom. My 2407WFP has these options.


RE: 1600P Upscaling
By dubldwn on 10/5/2007 2:19:35 AM , Rating: 3
oh, this thing should totally be 16:9 native. Wait, what's the line again? You can view two documents side-by-side in 16:10? Who the hell cares?


RE: 1600P Upscaling
By DallasTexas on 10/5/2007 9:58:01 AM , Rating: 2
ALL pixel displays do image scaling. What are you talking about this is the only one. What is different is the quality of the scaling technology. Unless you drive a display at EXACTLY the native pixel resolution, it requires scaling.


RE: 1600P Upscaling
By martyspants on 10/8/2007 10:00:13 PM , Rating: 2
The other 30" monitors available are only capable of being run at EXACTLY their native resolution or at 1280x800 in their non-DL crippled mode. This is the only 30" to properly do scaling.


RE: 1600P Upscaling
By colonelclaw on 10/5/2007 2:04:18 PM , Rating: 2
whilst im not disputing any of the technical stuff, it just doesn't look anywhere near as nice as the apple or dell. something that big is gonna draw a lot of attention and i'd rather people who saw mine would point and say 'wow!' rather than 'urgh!'


RE: 1600P Upscaling
By Odeen on 11/3/2007 1:53:40 PM , Rating: 2
The only reason you say that is the speaker bar on the bottom. Without the speaker bar, it has a rather svelte frame.


Panel type
By Schadenfroh on 10/4/2007 6:35:33 PM , Rating: 2
What type of panel is this? Is it a TN?




RE: Panel type
By dnd728 on 10/4/2007 7:30:54 PM , Rating: 2
No way. By the response time and the close by Samsung release, I'd say S-PVA.


RE: Panel type
By retrospooty on 10/4/2007 7:33:57 PM , Rating: 2
Yup, S-PVA. I read an announcement on another site today and it had that info.


RE: Panel type
By Gul Westfale on 10/5/2007 2:56:18 AM , Rating: 3
it's a TEFM panel, as in Too Expensive For Me.

;)


1600p?
By Suomynona on 10/4/2007 6:41:32 PM , Rating: 1
What a load of marketing BS. I like how they imply that not only is there actually a "1600p" HD standard, but that the competition doesn't support it.




RE: 1600p?
By Zandros on 10/4/2007 7:06:27 PM , Rating: 2
Heh, yes. And with a horizontal pixel count of 2560 pixels they won't be able to get a 16:9 aspect ratio with 1600px vertical,


RE: 1600p?
By SavagePotato on 10/4/2007 7:35:51 PM , Rating: 2
16x10

All computer widescreen monitors are 16x10 it seems.


RE: 1600p?
By Zandros on 10/6/2007 12:42:22 AM , Rating: 2
Yes, which is exactly why it won't be able to display a 1600p resolution since those (HD classified resolutions) usually are 16:9. We need some consistency here, at least.


RE: 1600p?
By jajig on 10/4/2007 7:27:37 PM , Rating: 2
Where do they imply anything about the competition? I didn't see anything implied about the resolution been exclusive.


Samsung
By SavagePotato on 10/4/2007 7:34:20 PM , Rating: 2
According to the Samsung website they already have

http://www.samsung.com/ca/products/monitor/lcd_wid...

Samsung usualy doesn't put stuff on the website till it's fully available. However even if it isn't I would gladly wait to get a samsung T series display over anything made by gateway.

Personaly I think their T series 27 looks like the perfect choice.

http://www.samsung.com/ca/products/monitor/lcd_wid...

1900 x 1200 is alot easier to try to support video card wise for gaming than 2560 x 1600, and 1900x1200 is still very high even for a 27 inch display. Much cheaper too, those 27 inch samsungs are $900 or less.




RE: Samsung
By Bimmer318i on 10/5/2007 2:27:28 AM , Rating: 2
I was fairly certain the 305T was available for sale.
For that matter, I'm sure of it, a few of them have walked out the door (payed for obviously) at the retailer I happen to work at.

Bloody grand looking monitors. I'd love to see the gateway.


RE: Samsung
By mxnerd on 10/6/2007 4:58:10 PM , Rating: 2
Samsung quality is not that good.

I have a SyancMaster 204B, after one year use a finger nail size green traingle appear on the upper-left corner. I think I have to RMA some day. But I'm sure the shipping is going to cost me.

And I have 2 Samsung DVD writers that will whine as loud whenever I put a CD or DVD in them.

I think I'll never buy a Samsung again.

They might be a good barnd, but they have Quallity Control issue.


Since when...
By glitchc on 10/4/2007 8:02:57 PM , Rating: 2
does IR work without line-of-sight?




RE: Since when...
By sdifox on 10/4/2007 11:21:19 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
by glitchc on October 4, 2007 at 8:02 PM

does IR work without line-of-sight?


Since Samsung became a good brand.