Even as Acer goes through the hurdles necessary to acquire Gateway it continues to roll out products on American shores. It announced today its new P Series of of LCD displays, available now at around $230 for 19-inches, $270 for 20-inches, $330 for 22-inches and $500 for 24-inches.

The Acer P Series has widescreen design and are housed in a glossy, piano black bezel with curved edges. Control buttons are placed so as to add to the relatively clean lines. The displays are HD ready, being outfitted with either HDMI or DVI, get upwards of a 3000:1 contrast ratio depending upon the model and are Windows Vista enhanced so as to work better with the Office 2007 interface.

Acer sees this displays as being good for both home entertainment and productivity. That works fine for me - half the screen to type blog posts like this and half the screen to watch Cops and Jerry Springer.

Acer P Series Press Release