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This super-thin display also has a super-thin price

AOC e2243Fw made a good first impression on us: A glossy, piano-black frame building, this remarkably thin, 21.5-inch LCD monitor. Apart from the fact that only 1/2-inch from the front to rear, but also extremely light and flexible and has a good price too. The starting price of $ 150 you get TN technology and a WLED backlit screen with a standard aspect ratio of 16:9 and 1920x1080 resolution. It does not mean, however, you get HDMI or DisplayPort.

The six-pound display has a round base to keep sensors, which, when touched, activate a screen display, a nice trick if it were not so clunky. Trying to navigate the menu was a cumbersome experience, as the buttons are unintuitive and not based on the ability to move up and down through the menu. Even worse, the OSD menu is large, confusing symbols, and it's frustrating just press the wrong button or accidentally take a step back to the previous menu.

Only 1/2-inch thin, weighs only six pounds e2243Fw.

One of the remarkable things about the display is its ability to tilt back to a 90-degree angle for easy wall mounting with VESA mounts. However, requires a power brick e2243Fw something that is unlikely to look good is you dangling your wall. Also, despite the 90-degree tilt, there is no way to change the display from left to right, which come in handy for desktop use is movement. And frankly, we would much rather use a 21.5-inch screen on our desktop as our wall.

When you move the display to the base, not only found us accidentally pressing the base (and thus the menu buttons) we have also found that the neck of the state pressure on the display, which strangely on pressure-point pattern warble the screen. Moving the display, it also often causes flicker off for a moment before jumping back into life.

Chassis attributes apart, produced to clear the display colors and details that were comparable with our zero-point display, a Dell U2410, but a shade darker. Adjust the brightness and settings in the menu helped some, but the reds and greens not quite pop as we wanted: The e2243Fw a few shades cooler than our zero-point. During our tests DisplayMate e2243Fw suffered in the pixel-tracking screens, where it produces digital noise in images, as well as in the White-Level Saturation test, where it produces some compression artifacts. Additionally, tried to produce accurate colors and the colors smoothly and consistently as to make in order to produce the entire range of gray tones seamlessly. In addition, had difficulties with the video bandwidth index and gamma-correction tests, where there were signs of over-time high, and inaccuracy in the gray scale and color mixtures, respectively.