Game on for monitors with true flat surfaces

Elo TouchSystems has expanded its family of open-frame CRT gaming monitors with a pair of 17 and 19in true flat CRT monitors.

Elo TouchSystems has expanded its family of open-frame CRT gaming monitors with a pair of 17 and 19in true flat CRT monitors.

The CRT gaming touch monitors are available with the company's breakthrough iTouch "touch-on-tube" surface-wave touch technology and feature a unique injection-moulded minibezel with watertight seal.

Elo's complete gaming monitor line will be shown at ATEI in London from 21st to 23rd January 2003.

Elo's new Entuitive 1788C and 1988C 17 and 19in CRT gaming monitors provide a true flat surface - unlike full square tube (FST) monitors, which are still slightly curved - that simplifies installation of the monitor into cabinets using a flat front.

Elo's true flat monitors provide the same flat screen image as an LCD monitor, but at the lower cost-point of a CRT monitor.

The true flat monitors take particular advantage of Elo's iTouch 'touch-on-tube' technology, which provides a significantly enhanced on-screen image, graphics, colour quality, brightness and clarity by eliminating the traditional glass touchscreen overlay and placing the touch sensors on the CRT faceplate itself.

Monitors equipped with iTouch look exactly like non-touch monitors, and when compared to those with an overlay, can yield up to 20% greater brightness and up to 80% less reflection.

For customers using a true flat CRT, iTouch is a far superior solution to an overlay because these tubes add parallax in the corners because of the thicker faceplate glass, which is then exaggerated by the overlay and its associated air gap.

By using iTouch it minimises this parallax.

The new true flat monitors, along with the 15, 17 and 19in FST versions, all feature common mechanical construction and electronics design.

The computer-grade digital design delivers video quality up to 1024 x 758pixel at 85Hz with a 0.25 dot pitch.

The main board is small (20 x 25cm), and built from rugged epoxy composite PCB material (CAM-1).

The entire electronics can be field replaced in a matter of minutes.

"We now have a large family of gaming monitors with small footprints, consistent electronics, mechanical construction and features across all sizes", says Mike Sigona, Elo's Worldwide Gaming Market Manager.

"All of the CRTs offer multilingual remote on screen display (OSD) and worldwide agency approvals and power.

And all of Elo's gaming monitors feature our unique integrated minibezel".

The minibezel forms a watertight faceplate seal to keep spilled drinks away from the electronics and stays in place even when the game cover is open.

The seal is less than 1mm thick - thinner than a coin - and is virtually invisible to players.

"The extended family of gaming monitors not only retains Elo's proven quality and reliability", says Sigona, "but manages to do so at an extremely cost-effective and competitive price point.

We've worked hard at Elo and found a way to deliver quality and economy in the same bundle.

I believe that our customers will be very pleased with our new gaming monitors".

Back to top