Full Review
Features and Design The very first thing one will notice about the Gateway Extreme HD monitor is the sheer size. It's massive and absolutely dwarfs 20" and 24" monitors. The XHD3000 has a very common black and silver color scheme - glossy black body and brushed aluminum accents and base. It looks more like an HDTV than a computer monitor. The XHD3000 has an antiglare coating on the screen. This is a welcome departure from the super popular glossy LCD monitors released so often in 2007. The antiglare coating works wonders for improving wide viewing angles and it keeps glare and other reflections off your screen so you can focus on your work, not on the rest of the office behind you. The brushed aluminum base is much smaller than one would expect for a 30" LCD. It's less than 15" wide and, surprisingly, only a wee bit larger than the average base of Dell's 20" LCD. The XHD3000 base has a large opening which can be used to place office supplies, USB hub, a small backup hard drive or whatever you prefer. The design team at Gateway did a very good job arranging the array of ports and video connections on the bottom of the XHD3000. Each type of video input and audio/USB output has a clearly designated and marked space, and nothing is cramped. For added convenience, four USB 2.0 ports are located on the bottom of the XHD3000, and two USB 2.0 ports are raised to the bottom left corner of the monitor - perfect for USB memory keys or flash card adapters. "Quad-HD" Silicon Optix Realta HQV Upsampling
Viewing Angles
The XHD3000 has amazing 176-degree viewing angles left to right and top to bottom. It's truly impressive - something you have to see in person to fully appreciate. You can literally stand at the very edge of the LCD screen and see the entire 30" spread almost as clearly as if you were standing directly in front of it.
Gateway promotes the XHD3000 monitor with the tag line "Quad-HD". What exactly does this mean? It's simple - the 1600p resolution is a little more than four times that of 720p HD resolution.
The XHD3000 has an integrated Silicon Optix Realta HQV video processor, which is designed to increase the clarity and detail of images on screen, whether stills or moving video. "HQV" is an acronym for "Hollywood Quality Video" and refers to the Teranex video processing chipset that performs one trillion operations per second. It handles deinterlacing, noise reduction and more for beautiful image quality.
If you connect the Gateway Extreme HD monitor to a 720p, 1080i or 1080p HD video source, the XHD3000 will upscale that video to 1600p.
The Gateway xhd3000 is beautiful to look at
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by Bert on March 31, 2008:
“Hello, I purchased this monitor 4 days ago and have had both joy and pain with it since. Pro: I love the PIP support, such as sizing the window, moving, and transparency. While there are limits when using 2560x1600 mode, Gateway denotes these limits...” More...