Ok, I found a review. It's off on a Romanian site, so I had a friend of mine translate it. The translation is a little hard to read, but I thought you guys still might like to read it. Though it doesn't really seem like the author really looks at the thing from an artistic perspective.
About the Taiwanese Brand Proview in genere I can't tell you very much, from personal experiencea, because I haven't worked much with their produse. I also saw like you did, some monitors, but only on the shelves and my constant impression was that they didn't shine through anything, especially next to the giants like Samsung or the professional series from Ilyama.
You start the trip in 1989 and you dedicate to the production of the displays, Proview reccomends as "One of the biggest monitor manufacturers" and after I looked over the company's profile, I realized that they really are. Not really on 5th place, this is clear; it is almost a little white lie. To us though, it is a sporadic presentation in stores, in spite of the fact they still appear in the media of speciality. This…instead of an introduction for the first touchscreen monitor presented by
www.LiquidCore.RO (Thanks ETA2U), and specifically Visboard VA1-19b, a impressive display as you will see. Not so much as a monitor, but as prodes with a small other temptation and clear of recess. However, we want the new one! Anyone?
First, it is clear that we have something to do with a multimedia monitor. The form of the screen of 19" has a ratio of 16:10, good contrast and brightness (we would have liked them to be a little bigger however, at this price), and the time to answer it is recommended even for games. Now the problem is that I don't know exactly if they thought about this specifically, meaning games. Honestly, I don't think so.
Its place if far from the dining room, in the conference room for presentations, in the media, projections (here, I don't stick my hand in the fire because of the impreciseness of the stylus), and even medicine. In any case, yes, super, if you want to make an impression. And another way you can use the touchsceen face if not in the mentioned areas, considering that it is not a classic touchscreen, with pressure sensors like the Tablet PCs and PDAs, but detection of the presence of the stylus (this also has a battery) and the interaction with this cause electromagnetism, and the surface on which we "magnetize" is made of glass. So, don't even think about moving the cursor you're your finger. The dectection of the grade of pressure that you are applying with the stylus is caused through the application of a larger tension on the surface, offered by the battery within it.
1. First impression
The package that the Visboard VA1-19b comes in is clearly over the media of the others: compact, with an attractive design, ergonomic (opens laterally, not like the rest of the TFT monitors higher up) and thought for portability – because the monitor needs to be transported to the client or presentation room, right? As a gift is delivered to us together with the manual, The CD with the drivers and applications (absolutely necessary if you want to use it as a touchscreen), USB cable for the touchscreen's comments controls, 2 SGVA cables with D-SUB15 connectors for the two entrances, the basic cable and box are pretty racy where you find the stylus with the AAA battery afferent and two points of plastic material as a reserve.
The design of the monitor is an elegant, simple and satisfying ensemble, the buttons for comments being positioned down-center and buried in the mask. When pressing them, they are still kind of sucky, as a paft of a stupid mobile. With the base of the monitor, you don't need to torture yourself, since it is ready to be set up. We mention as a similarity to any other behaved graphic tablet Visboard VA1-19b can be brought horizontally becoming a surface on which it is possible to work much easier; it can be folded to the maximum even in situations the you don't realize that it was once a monitor. But the wrapping doesn't make the merchandise easy to see...
2. Technical Specs.
Diagonal (inch)
19" Wide
Vizual area
410.4mm x 256.5mm
Maximum Resolution
1440 x 900
Number of colors
16.2M
Reaction time(ms)
5 ms
Brightness (cd/m²)
300 cd/㎡
Contrast
800:1
Horizontal Frequency (KHz)
30~ 81 kHz
Vertical Frequency (Hz)
56 ~ 75 Hz
Analog
D-SUBx2
Consumptive power
40 watts
Monitor WxHxD (mm)
458 x 392 x 271 mm
Package WxHxD (mm)
544 x194 x358 mm
Net weight(KG)
6.4
Package weight (KG)
8.6
3. Functionality and Performance
As we were saying, the stylus functions on the principle of electromagnetism, through emitting electromagnetic waves, offering in theory 4000 lines per inch. Practically, the large limit comes because of the said graphic tables integrated in the monitor and which offers a resolution up to 1000 lines per inch, but especially for the other factorsd. The writing speed (which matters in fact, because other latencies still intervene, for example the necessary processes) it is specified at 180pps. The number of the level of pressure is also sufficiently large that so as not to waste your time
meaning, 1024.
This was the theory, but we all know that any crime is done practically. We needed cca 35 minutes for a good calibration of the detection of touch and movement. Pretty good... an impediment we believe would be that of the contact surface is a little too far from the presentation (the glass, in other words, is kind of far from the display). This means a pretty big angle, in the function of a good position, which makes the point of the stylus in front of the place where the pointer of the mouse is found. Meaning, it is pointless for you to calibrate if you change your position towards another spot / and let's be serious, you can't stay stockstill in a presentation. So a small constructive and ergonomical problem.
Other than that, the drivers, we still have on CD some indispensable tools. I'm talking here about, first of all, a piece of software which on one superior layer drawers effectively on the screen that which is traced with the pen.
