Medion has launched the Akoya E54009 (sometimes on sale as the MD2012), a 22-inch touch screen, or rather 21.5 inches to be precise. It has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixesl and a reaction time of 5 ms. More for office use, then, than anything else.

Hardware: VGA and a pair of speakers



Before going into any detail with respect to image quality, let's take a look at the hardware side. The base is a digital photo frame type base. Apart from the aesthetics of the base, it is better adapted to touch screen use than a standard base. As the screen is lower, your arm doesn't get as tired as quickly. Otherwise, Medion has obviously done the minimum. At the back, neither HDMI, nor DVI, only a VGA in and an in for a pair of speakers (power isn't given). They'll be a fallback solution if you don't have any externals but that's about it.

The colours: good contrast or accurate colours, you'll have to choose

Default colours

Ideal colours Compare the E54009 to other monitors in our face-off

At default settings there's a strong colorimetric shift towards blue. But otherwise default colours are ok. This can be easily corrected by choosing standard to warm on your colour settings options. At this setting, the DeltaE falls from 4.6 to 2.6. On the other hand however, the contrast suffers, falling from 750: 1 to 640: 1. The only way of retaining accurate colours and a decent contrast ratio is by recalibrating the screen. If you don't have the necessary to do this yourself, you can download our calibration profile, available free here, to improve things.

Responsiveness: a standard TN 5 ms

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Average ghosting over 10 frames

The good news is that the 22 inch doesn't suffer any reverse ghosting. The bad: it's still a 5 ms. Of course, gaming enthusiasts won't be queueing up for this one. In contrast, for office doc use, launching your playlists, browsing and gaming on titles where there aren't any rapid movements, it'll be fine. Especially as an input lag of just one frame on average, won't be any problem for your multi-player gaming.

Touch screen: no problem but no advances on the previous models...

Touch screen use is no worse than on other models (Acer T230H and Iiyama T2250MS) and a little less tiring thanks to the lower base. The problem with touch screens is however their lack of practicality. You wouldn't exactly be shelling out just to play chess against Windows 7 and to use the Media-center.