Consumers are starting to watch more movies and TV shows on their monitors these days. Rather than get up and hang out in the rec room where little Billy might be playing on his PlayStation or Grandpa is watching the news, we’re finding it more convenient to stay seated, a click away from downloading the new episode of “Lost” or sliding a movie disc in our DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray drive. Viewsonic is going after that segment of the home market with the launch of its Diamani DUO series of monitors which are now on sale.

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.

NEC announced some new consumer display monitors today for gamers and multimedia lovers. The 19-inch AccuSync LCD19WMGX (around $280), 22-inch AccuSync LCD22WMGX (around $380) and 24-inch AccuSync LCD24WMCX (around $550)should all be available by month’s end.

The NEC AccuSync GX and CX monitors are widescreen in nature, with the high end LCD24WMCX supporting a native resolution of 1920 x 1220. The displays are include integrated speakers, 5-millisecond response times and and 2000:1 contrast ratio for the two larger monitors. Also prevalent on the two larger displays are component and HDMI connectivity along with HDCP support for viewing of copy-protected HD content.

iZ3D, a developer of 3D imaging products, announced today the launch of a 22-inch 3D gaming monitor. The new 22-inch widescreen monitors are priced at around $1,000.

The iZ3D 22-inch gaming monitors incorporates S-3D drivers to take full advantage of a variety of high end performance technologies found in graphics cards and Intel processors. Dual modes let gamers switch between 2D and 3D gaming modes, with 3D gaming mode supported by included 3D passive polarized glasses.

Planar Systems unveiled today three new widescreen LCD monitors which reportedly offer up to 82 percent more workspace than a standard 19-inch monitor. These new models are branded as the PX2611W, PX2411W and PX2210MW.

These new Planar PX LCD desktop monitors come in 26-, 24- and 22-inch screen sizes respectively and are geared for specialty markets like graphic design and video editing. A lot of features are available on these units, depending upon the model, and include WUXGA 1920 x 1200 resolution, DVI-D inputs, a four-port USB hub, built-in speakers and a stand which offers height adjustment.

This nifty head-mounted display reminds me of those old “Deep Space Nine” episodes where the bad guys would use these things to see Federation ships attack them. For us lowly terrestrials in the early 21st century, Shimadzu’s DataGlass 3/A was designed so that workers in wet or dusty environments could use the functionality of a PC on the jobsite.

Weighing 120 grams, the DataGlass delivers SVGA/VGA graphics consistent with a 10 or 14-inch monitor. You don’t even need to remove your glasses to use it or worry about it getting rained on.

Connection is made via USB cable so you can be talking on the headset to Ralph back inside the office, scanning bar codes in with your data entry gun and calling up the SKU of the item in front of you all at the same time. Of course, we see it more being …

Philips has taken the wraps off of some new 20-inch 3D displays as the latest addition to their WOWvx line of products. The displays appear to be targeting more of commercial use as a medium to draw more attention and increase brand awareness from consumers at indoor shops or mall kiosks. The WOWvx displays provide a 3-dimensional looking picture that’s viewable with the naked eye without the need for any type of special 3D glasses and will likely draw more of your attention when you first see one than would a standard 2D display.

The 20-inch model has two versions, one as a frame-mount for the wall (20-3D2W01) and the other with a bezel and stand for a desktop (20-3D2W04). This type of 3D display technology is not necessarily new but Philips is one of the first to market the product …

LG seems to think they have found the magical formula in the form of a 22-inch widescreen display which can serve as both home television and computer monitor. Enter the mighty LG Flatron Wide Format M228WA.

What you say? Why is this the replacement for your big screen plasma? Well, we weren’t exactly saying it was. Rather the LG M228WA, with its 1680 x 1050 viewing resolution and 170-degree viewing angles, will serve as a nice LCD display for television when you tire of crunching numbers in Excel. The monitor, optimized to work with Windows Vista, has a slim and light design which hides built-in stereo speakers, 16:10 aspect ratio, a “digital fine” contrast ratio of 3000:1, 2ms response time and automatic detection and switching for dual monitor support.

This is all on top of a USB input interface for multi-screen support and …

Hoping to attract the users looking to upgrade their monitor now that they have Microsoft Vista installed, Acer America has rolled out five new LCD monitors in its xSeries line, all Vista certified. The company states that any one of its xSeries screens are perfect for the latest multimedia, gaming or video applications and are priced affordably.

The lineup consists of the traditional resolution 1280×1040 17-inch x171s ($179.99) and the 19-inch x191sd ($189.99) models. These two units offer 700:1 contrast ratio and 300 cd/m2 typical brightness. The widescreen Acers include the 19-inch x191Wsd ($279.99), the 22-inch x221Wsd (279.99) and the 24-inch x241Wsd (599.99.) The first two WS models offer 800:1 contrast ratio (bumped up to 100:1 for the x241Wsd), 5 millisecond response times and 300 cd/m2 typical brightness (upped to 400 cd/m2 for the x241.) Last but not least, …

For those of you that absolutely, positively need to see just how far you can scroll your mouse across your screen, the Zenview Powerscape Ultra HD monitor system is for you.

Consisting of a central 30-inch primary LCD screen (2560×1600, contrast ratio 700:1) surrounded by two 20.1-inch LCD screens (1200×1600, contrast ratio 800:1) on either side (all manufactured by LG Philips), this is the best way we found to be browsing SlipperyBrick, doing your banking, answering email, checking your stocks and playing WoW all at the same time. You will need to grow an extra arm or two but that shouldn’t be a big deal, right?

Also included is support for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, Zenview manager multimonitor utilities and under the company’s three-year parts/labor/backlight warranty. Each panel has digital DVI and analog D-sub connections and is in black with silver trim. Zenview …

Let’s just admit it: we would all love to have our dream computer desktop that looked more like something from the starship Enterprise rather than something from the display wall down at Office Depot. Well, there’s a monitor making company called CineMassive that is out to make our Captain Kirk wish fulfillment come true with an impressive six monitor set-up that turns your desktop into a drive-in.

The heart of the beast is a 21.3-inch Premium Digital Samsung LCD monitor (1600 X 1200 SXGA) that is surrounded to its sides and top by five 17-inch versions (1024 X 1280 SXGA.) Crossbars in the back support the weight of the upper monitors When this Godzilla-sized display is unfurled you get a whopping 44-and-a-half inches of screenage.

With over 8 million pixels in the package (and CineMassive guarantees that not one will be dead or else they …

The military always gets the cool things first because they’re the first to pay big bucks (from our tax dollars), but just like Velcro, freeze-dried ice cream and everything else for sale on late-night infomercials, we will eventually be able to buy it.

The latest gadget to be developed for the military and now to be offered to the rest of us is Estari’s dual touch-screen laptop, the 2-VU. You can use the two 15-inch touch screen displays in tandem, one to work on and the other to display your work at the same time. When a stylus or your finger won’t do, call up a keyboard graphic on one screen and watch your words appear on the second display.

This patented piece of double vision operates from a 1.83GHx Intel Dual Core processor, has 1 GB of RAM and can be …

In what was apparently a mistake the image for the Dell 20″ monitor was mistakingly replaced with an image for a 27″ monitor.

In a posting on a Dell Forum an employee of Dell indicated that the image was from a training manual for the “not yet released W2707C.”

So it appears that there is a Dell 27″ display on the horizon. This monitor is rumored to be an enthusiasts model. If the fabled 27″ display uses this Samsung screen then it is possible to infer some data about the upcoming model.

It appears to have a 1920 by 1200 native resolution. This is the same as the existing Dell 24″ models. The image from Dell’s site reveals the inputs to W2707 to be very similar to the 2407 that SlipperyBrick has in-house. …