ViewSonic Renames Its Latest Monitor: V3D245 On Sale Soon

The name might be a little different, but everything else is the same.  It's a 23.6'' monitor with a 1920 x 1080 pixel display backlit using LEDs.  The published response time for the TN panel is 2 ms, while the contrast ratio is listed as a frankly implausible 2000000:1.  For audio, there's the same old pair of 2 x 2 W speakers.

Like the Acer GN245HQ, the new monitor has a built-in infra-red transmitter to sync the 3D glasses that are supplied with the picture on screen.  This means you can enjoy 3D content from a number of sources, including Blu-ray 3D discs, a Playstation 3 or an ATI graphics card via the HDMI 1.4b port, not just from computers with an NVIDIA card.

We're not so excited about it that we'd go as far as publishing a story just to say that it's changed name, though: now it's got its own page on ViewSonic's site, we know that it be available in the US in the coming weeks for $499.  There's no news yet on how much it will cost in the UK, but it could easily be £499 given how frequently manufacturers use a simple 1:1 exchange rate at the expense of their British customers.