Samsung H03, MD230 and PX2370 appear

Samsung kicked off a slew of product launches today with a series of new displays. The H03 is one of its first LED-lit pico projectors and puts out a brighter-than-average 30 ANSI lumens. Its new choice of lighting helps it last longer, running for up to 30,000 hours of use before it needs a lamp swap.

When portable, the H03 can run entirely on battery power or a USB cable. Composite and VGA are its only video input options, but it can use both its USB slot and an SD card slot for reading not only JPEG photos and MPEG videos but HTML, PDF and raw text files without needing a separate device. Samsung expects the H03 to reach the UK in June and hasn't said when it shows in the US.

A full-size projector, the SP-F10M, is focused on being green and has the same LED illumination with a much stronger 1,000 lumens of brightness versus 200 for most displays its size. It can output natively at 1024x768 and replaces the composite input with HDMI. Samsung ships the F10M to at least the UK in the next few weeks.

Desktop users are served by the MD230 (pictured), a 23-inch LCD display built specifically with ATI's Eyefinity mode in mind. The screen has extra-thin bezels that create more of a seamless effect when as many as 6 displays are combined into a single virtual monitor for games or other tasks. A single MD230 outputs a native 1080p and generates a 150,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio (3,000:1 static) with an 8ms pixel response. DisplayPort, DVI and VGA are all built into the panel to guarantee that Radeon HD 5000 cards can always reach the extra screen area.

Samsung hasn't given out release info for the MD230.

More conventional computer users are also seeing the Western debut of the PX2370, another 23-inch display this time targeted at home and pro users concerned about image quality. The LCD can cover the entire sRGB color space and musters a 5,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio (1,000:1 static). It carries composite, DVI and HDMI jacks, but like the MD230 doesn't have a definiable release date.

By Electronista Staff