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On Display

PRODUCT AG Neovo Genie CCTV Iiyama Samsung

SX-19P LM19PRO C1911S SMT-1923

PRODUCT DESIGN 85% 80% 80% 85%

FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS 82% 80% 78% 84%

COLOUR FIDELITY 80% 80% 79% 80%

VIDEO QUALITY 82% 79% 78% 82%

OVERALL RATING 82% 79% 78% 83%

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o matter what the application, video

surveillance is very much a visual tool.

You can build in all the analytics that

you want, you can add intelligence until the

cows come home, and it matters not unless

the output of the system can be viewed. Many

installers, specifiers, consultants and end

users will strive to achieve the highest

possible quality they can from their CCTV

system, but the final quality, the viewed

image, is very much dependent upon the

display.

When LCD displays first appeared in the

CCTV sector, there were a fair few people that

weren’t that keen on them. If the truth be told,

many of the Benchmark team could be

included in that number. The CRT might have

been bulky, it might have been less economic

to run, and it might have even been less

energy efficient, but the image quality was

very hard to beat. Indeed, even today a decent

CRT will often compare favourably with a good

LCD display.

That said, the transition to LCD displays as

the mainstream monitor of choice in the CCTV

sector is over, and there’s little point in harking

back to an almost obsolete technology. The

slimline sized, energy efficient, flexible and

functional LCD display is here, and image

quality has also been improving all the time,

and is set to continue to improve!

There are a number of important

specifications for CCTV monitors, but the real

test is a very simple one; how good do the

images look? Can the monitor deliver clarity of

detail within the image, does it show a good

level of colour fidelity, and can it display fast

motion without any degradation? If the answer

is yes to all three, and it has the right

Video is a visual medium, and no matter how

surveillance systems are used, the end result is

that someone is - at some time - going to need

to view the footage. Whilst much emphasis is

placed upon capturing high quality video, that

investment is wasted unless it can be viewed as

high quality footage. Here, Benchmark looks at

some of the options when selecting a 19 inch

LCD display for video surveillance.

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