Bij Dan's Data is een review verschenen over de Prophetview 720 LCD van Hercules. Dit is een 15” LCD monitor met een resolutie van 1024x768 pixels. De monitor is degelijk in elkaar gezet en vindt steun door middel van een soort van aluminium boemerang. De beeldkwaliteit van monitor is heel redelijk, maar er was wel een kapotte pixel te vinden en daarnaast moesten de kleuren aardig getweaked worden om er goed uit te zien in donkere spellen. Maar gezien de relatief lage prijs van ongeveer 1300 piek mag dat niet deren aldus de reviewer:
This is the first LCD screen I've seen that I'd seriously consider buying.
I've seen some nice LCDs before, and I've seen some cheap ones, but this is the first fairly cheap, fairly nice one. It only costs about a hundred Australian bucks more than a decent 19 inch CRT, it's got decent screen area (about 70% of an allegedly-19-inch CRT's area), it looks good, it seems quite tough, and its image quality is better than usual for a cheap LCD.
The PV720's still not worth buying, though, if you're not interested in the particular advantages of LCDs. If you don't have to lug monitors around all the time, and you're not desperately short of space, you probably don't care much about an LCD. LCDs also consume less power and thus pump out less heat - the PV720's peak power consumption's a lousy 24 watts, versus an easy hundred-plus watts for even a basic 17 inch CRT. But if you're not living in a solar powered house, it'll take you a long time for a one hundred watt, or even two hundred watt, power consumption difference to make up for the more than $AUD500 purchase price difference between a nice 17 inch CRT and this 15 inch LCD.
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