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A
Closer Look:::...
The
stand itself is strictly utilitarian with no time wasted
un unnecessary design flourishes. A small indented area
at the front serves as a home to your paper clips or other
odds and ends and that' about all the functionality you
get.
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Stand
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The
display can be made to swivel down by 5 degrees and up by
30 degrees but there's no rotation or height adjustment
on offer beyond this.
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Stand
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In
terms of connectors all you get is four, and two of those
are for supplying the power and feeding in the audio. On
the plus side though, the two remaining connectors allow
you to connect a regular analogue D-Sub or a digital DVI
connector meaning it can be used no matter what your graphics
card. Digital is the way to go every time but not everyone
has that option from their graphics hardware so the inclusion
of both connectors is a genuine plus.
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Connectors
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The
menu is split into three main sections:
Menu
one (from left to right) gives access to brightness, contrast,
clock, phase, horizontal position, vertical position and
back to menu selection mode.
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Menu
1
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Menu
two accesses auto setup, colour temperature (9300K, 7500K,
6500K, sRGB and user defined), sharpness and gamma setting.
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Menu
2
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Meanwhile,
menu three accesses volume level, On Screen Display positioning,
language selection (English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish,
Japanese), lockout function, master reset and signal select
(analogue or digital).
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Menu
3
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Of
these functions, brightness, contrast, sharpness, signal
select, auto setup, volume level and mute can all be accessed
from a single push of one of the five front control buttons
without having to navigate the menu.
One
function only available from the buttons is what iiyama
dub "QPQ" mode, which I'm told means "optimal
picture quality" mode? This allows simple, push-button
adjustment of the for when you're working primarily with
pictures or text, and there are two additional economy modes
which simply reduce the backlight brightness.
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Menu
3
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Getting
the display just how you like it may take a little patience
but it's worth the effort. I noticed that although iiyama's
own drivers offer a refresh rate of 60, 72 and 75Hz, only
60Hz gave me sharp text from edge to edge. Both 72 and 75Hz
caused the text to look slightly soft on the left side of
the screen. Unlike CRTs, a setting of 60Hz doesn't cause
flickering so this isn't a problem.
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Display
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