Konditorei Kongarily

April 5, 2006. Wednesday.

A day of shopping.

Going to be in the battle line.
September, 3. 2005

I received a mail from my friend who had a CT scan today, and the mail said her brain had no problem. I breathed a little easier. I want her to become fine early. I had nothing to do at office. It's bother to write about it.

After work I went to Bic Camera, which is one of a large electrical appriance shop (not a misspelling of 'Big'). Last evening, I decided to buy a new note PC and give old one (Letsnote R1) to my mother. And I wanted to look for a LCD display, because R1's display was broken. The prices were more expensive than the price of my LCD display which I bought 2 years ago. Though progress of technorogy downed the LCD's cost, low-end prices has not been changed in last two year, because the spec of LCD display for PC use grows year by year. So I considerd to give my old LCD display for my mother and buy a new LCD to me.

In these days, I watch TV with my LCD display using IO-DATA TVBOXes that is a box including TV tuner and upscan converter. It has AV input (Compornent and S-Video), and PIP (Picture In Picture) function. The box support SXGA and my 17 inch LCD display's resolution is SXGA too. So my requirements are these:

17 inch or upper moniter size.
SXGA or upper display resolution.
PIP function can be realized and other AV input is abundant (And TV tuner included is the best).
Better display quality than my old one.

With these requirements, I searched the best one and I found it is very difficult selection. If I focus on display quality or AV function, cost per resolution become very expensive because such display is categorized as a multimedia display, and sometimes the inch size is too large. High resolution model don't have a tuner and it can't be realize PIP at the best resolution (ex. SXGA or UXGA) because of my TVBOXes' spec. Dell's 2407W is high resolution and has a PIP function and multiple AV input. 2407W costs 99,800 yen and it's very cheep for the spec. It can be used as a dot-per-dot displayable hi-vision moniter (The LCD resolution is 1920 x 1200 and hi-vision's graphic resolution for 1080i mode is 1920 x 1080, and it has DVI input with HDCP). Though the selection is very attractive, I will avoided it, because I went to AV corner and saw full 1080i diplayable LCD TV created by SONY. Though it costs 500,000 yen for 40 inch LCD TV, the graphic quiality beyonded compare. I want to buy such a TV for my living room and watch a good movie with my girlfriend someday .... I wish.

After I came back home, I searched LCD and the price at kakaku.com. And I selected 2 LCD. One is created by Mitsubishi and anogher is created by IO-DATA. Both are 19 inch, SXGA and include TV tuner . Former is glos LCD and latter is not. Thought former is true 16.77M color but latter is pseude 16.77M color, latter's pixcel response time is 2ms and it's very fast. I select latter, IO-DATA LCD-TV195CBR. It costs 54,800 yen at the most cheep shop. I will go to see it at weekend. If I buy it, I will sell my TVBOXes. I hate cables :)

After that, I decided a spec of note PC and I orderd it. I orderd.... that. And the color was .....that. I will report it when I receive it!!