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Outstanding Picture Performance
Excellent Brightness and Contrast
The LMD-230WS and LMD-170WS monitors utilize WXGA LCD
panels to provide high-brightness and high-contrast images with
natural color reproduction. Incorporating a color filter with broad color
gamut, these monitors display outstanding natural images.
Interpolation Technology – X Algorithm
This new “X Algorithm” technology delivers impressive improvements
in picture quality. Jaggy noise, which often occurs on the edge
of moving objects in pictures, is effectively removed. Traditionally,
standard-definition video signals are converted from interlace signals
into progressive signals through the formation of a frame picture with
two field pictures. This often results in jagged shape noise along the
oblique direction of fast-moving objects. To overcome this, the
“X Algorithm” technology detects motion and, through comparison of
the oblique pixels above, below, and adjacent to the moving part,
inserts a new line. This reproduces images smoothly, such as a
fluttering flag with moving oblique lines. X Algorithm is especially
effective for low-resolution images.
2-2 and 2-3 Pull-Down Functions
When displaying film-originated sources, the 2-2 and 2-3 Pull-Down
functions help to reproduce natural and detailed pictures. If NTSC
signals that have been converted from film are detected, each frame
of the original film is accurately reproduced by the 2-3 Pull-Down
function. Any other video signals, including PAL signals, are converted
by the 2-2 Pull-Down function with natural reproduction.
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Nomal I/P conversion
Sony unveils its impressive new lineup of elegant two-
piece Professional Video LCD monitors—the LUMA™
Series. Choose from the LMD-230WS or LMD-170WS
LCD monitors, both of which are driven by a separate,
powerful signal-processing Multiformat Engine. Their
innovative designs offer the perfect solution for a wide
variety of professional applications. Thin, lightweight,
and simple, the two LCD monitors provide outstanding
installation flexibility. And when integrated with the
optional monitor stand, it is easy to adjust both height
and tilt to achieve the optimum viewing angle.
Based on the latest developments in image processing,
such as the new “X Algorithm” technology, these mon-
itors provide outstanding natural images with a high
level of brightness and contrast. They accept a wide
variety of signal formats such as analog RGB and HD,
and computer signals from VGA to SXGA.
Building on Sony’s successful PVM series, these
all new 23–inch and 17.1-inch (viewable area,
measured diagonally) LCD monitors are designed to
meet a wide range of picture-monitoring demands in
professional applications such as broadcast stations,
OB vehicles, post-production studios, and digital photo
studios.
Conventional technology
X Algorithm
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