Hello again, my name is Rodney Reynolds and welcome to another video review. Today I will be looking at the KDS Ultra -Thin 15 inch LCD Display. What is included in this package is the manual, you also get a PS2 ball mouse as well as a pad, a mouse pad, as well as the power connectors and as well of course as the connectors here for standard VGA. One real distinctive feature about this and there is a few about this display, is the fact that it comes in one cable. Basically there’s one cable which goes to the back of this display like so, you can see here there’s just one cable coming out of this. This is very good; it also frees of space on your desk as well of and let’s look here at how one actually connects.
Now this connects into the power supply here which goes plug in to the wall, of course it goes from the cable right here into here. At once that’s connected of course just connects this in to a wall and connect this into your PC. Taking a closer look here at the display itself, you will notice it does look really cool kind of a silver gray car here and there’s a blue boundary here on the other side. And you could see here, this is really nice and thin.
What this doesn’t have is adjustment for a height however you can tilt it back and forth like so. Now let me compare the thinness of this to another LCD screen. This is actually an LG display, a standard basic LCD display, a 15-inch both of these are the exact same size. You can certainly see here that this one is much thicker than this one here and you’ll notice that this one here has separate VGA and power connections where the other one just has it combined into one cable.
Like all displays in the market right now, there is of course a drop down, on screen, menu or screen control. I’ll go through this with this particular monitor at the top left here we have as called auto-tune. I can go ahead and press it as you can see here that it’s adjusting the screen. It will do this automatically, very good feature. Going on to the next one, here we have a contrast, you can of course adjust the contrast, here we can adjust the brightness, you can adjust the horizontal position, and you can also adjust the vertical position. And right here you have the horizontal size so screen this way and of course we have here the phase control.
At the top right here we have what’s called an auto-level, now this is for colors. I’ll go ahead and press and as you can see here that the screen is adjusting itself automatically to give me the actual color. If you don’t want that you could go in to the color controls in here and you can base the color in here and adjust it to whatever you wish or you can actually go and go ahead here and go user. This is a manual setting and you can adjust the red, green, and blue colors here right on the screen.
Going back here to the menu, we have the OSD position. Basically this is what you see here and the on screen display and basically you can adjust this to come up in different areas of the screen. You can adjust the time out of this particular screen. Also right here we have what’s called a power save delay and what this does? It just to shutdown the monitor, 5 second, 1 minute, 60 minutes or you can actually turn it off so it’s very good here you can certainly have a lot of options to choose what you want. And of course it’s certainly very easy as you can see here just scroll through all this very, very quickly and of course here also we have language controls. You can go in here and adjust it to whatever language that you prefer and of course you can in here and you can see the information, the serial number and of course the mode that you have it at right now.
Over all excellent product here, KDS has certainly put a really sleek design together also looking at the combined cord you have the power as well as the VGA in to one cable again cleaning up on all kinds of cables and space on your desk. Of course it does have tons of controls on screen to control, you can go in there and really click the display the way that you prefer. And let’s not forget the fact that displays like this does not emit radiation. CRT, the regular CRT displays if you’re spending a lot of time in front of your monitor, 12 hours a day may be plus in front of your CRT display, you might wanna consider just for the fact that the CRTs do emit radiation whereas these LCD do not.
And of course let’s not forget the fact that these LCDs burn a fraction of the power that the regular CRTs do so again consumption certainly an issue if you have an office or a large building where you have a lot of displays you could save enormous costs when it comes to what inch been burned with the regular CRT displays going from that to something like this. Now how do these things compare to CRT display in gaming and serious graphics? Well you can’t compare them, not yet anyhow.
CRT displays I still prefer for doing any kinds of serious graphics work in any kind of serious gaming. The differences are very subtle however, the differences between dark and light, the in between certainly you can noticce a distinct difference. Over all I give this display 9 out of 10.
Again my name is Rodney Reynolds and this has been another video review, be sure to check back very soon I will have a brand new one for you then. Also check out my website at www.3Dgameman.com and while you’re there check out forms. In the forms you can find there all kinds of information of this product and about all the products which I video review. And remember you can go in there and leave your own suggestions and comments. Until the next time, take care.
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