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News Release from: Elo Touchsystems | Subject: Gaming monitors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 February 2002
All in the game for OEM touchscreens
Elo TouchSystems has a new family of 15, 17 and 19in CRT open-frame gaming monitors.
Elo TouchSystems has a new family of 15, 17 and 19in CRT open-frame gaming monitors These monitors are available with or without Elo's breakthrough iTouch touch-on-tube technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our new gaming monitors are designed as a direct result of feedback from game developers", says Mike Sigona, Elo's gaming market manager.
"We responded to their needs by delivering a line of high-quality monitors with new features and greater reliability and with competitive pricing.
We now offer a larger product range?including both touch and non-touch monitors - providing a single-source supply point for our customers, who have come to rely on Elo's expertise and experience as a monitor manufacturer".
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Normally, the addition of touch technology to a monitor comes at a price: reduced picture quality.
Only Elo offers iTouch "touch-on-tube" technology.
iTouch senses touches through surface waves on the CRT faceplate itself, dispensing with the need for a coated glass overlay - which typically diffuses the image quality, alters colours, and is prone to breakage.
iTouch ensures that the monitor displays the same perfect picture quality, bright colours and clear graphics, whether ordered with or without a touch interface.
iTouch technology also provides extremely fast, sensitive, and drift-free touch performance.
In the last year, iTouch touchmonitors have been adopted by some of the largest manufacturers in the world for their next-generation games.
Sigona observes: "In the past, game manufacturers compared the video quality of monitors without the touch option, seeing only slight differences.
Now they should compare monitors with the touch option as well.
Only Elo touchmonitors deliver picture quality that's significantly better".
Elo's family of monitors has been developed with common features and electronics across all sizes.
The new monitors are designed with a small footprint so that they can fit into machine makers' existing cabinets.
The main electronics board measures only 20 x 25cm, but is packed with features such as digital computer-grade video quality up to 1024 x 758 at 85Hz and 0.25-dot pitch; built-in power, deflection, and video test; multilingual remote OSD (on screen display); universal auto-switching power supply; and worldwide agency approvals.
In addition to being the world leader in touch technology, Elo is also the largest producer of touchmonitors, with over ten years' experience.
Elo currently offers more than 30 CRT and LCD models in 80 standard product variations.
"You never expect your desktop monitor to fail, and the same should be true with your gaming monitor", says Sigona.
"Elo's monitors incorporate proven basic circuits from desktop monitors, but specifically designed to withstand the rigors of the gaming and amusement industry.
Because of Elo's overall monitor volume, we are able to produce our gaming monitors in the same factory that builds CRT and LCD monitors for some of the best-known desktop brands in the world.
And, as with traditional gaming monitors, we still offer an access panel to the circuitry, plus electronics that are field-replaceable in a few minutes with simple keyed connections".
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