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Acer G24 LCD Touts World’s Highest Contrast

Acer G24 LCD Touts World

Acer has officially announced its new G24 LCD display, which the company claims has the highest contrast ratio to be found in any LCD monitor on the planet: 50,000:1. The display is designed to complement the orange-and-black motif of its Aspire Predator gaming PC rigs, along with technologies designed to reduce ambient light reflection and backlight diffusion.

The G24 offers a 1,920 by 1,200-pixel native resolution, HDMI connectivity for hooking up to PCs, set-top boxes, and game consoles, along with Acer’s OD overdrive technology to improve grey-to-grey transition times. Acer claims the monitor sports a 2 ms response time, along with 400 nits of brightness. The G24 also offers complete access to display settings from a single button, smart display rotation software (for Windows), and eColor Management for easy adjusting of color output values.

Unfortunately, Acer hasn’t announced a price or street date for the G24; we can’t imagine it’s going to be cheap.

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