Sony LMD-230W, LMD-170W, MEU-WX1 User Manual

LCD Monitor

LMD-230W
LMD-170W

Multiformat Engine Unit

MEU-WX1

Sony unveils its impressive new lineup of elegant two-piece LCD monitors. Choose from the LMD-230W or LMD-170W
LCD monitors, both of which use the power of the MEU-WX1 signal-processing Multiformat Engine.
Their innovative designs offer the perfect solution for a wide variety of professional applications.
Thin, lightweight, and simple, the two LCD monitors provide outstanding installation flexibility.
And when integrated with the optional monitor stand, it is easy to adjust both height and tilt- to achieve the optimum
viewing angle. Based on the latest developments in image processing,such as new “X Algorithm”technology,these
monitors provide outstanding natural images with a high level of brightness and contrast.
They accept a wide variety of signal formats such as analog RGB and HD,and computer signals from VGA to SXGA.
Building on Sony’s successful PVM series,these all new 23–inch and 17-inch LCD monitors are designed to meet a wide
range of picture-monitoring demands in professional applications such as broadcast stations, OB vehicles,
post-production studios, and digital photo studios.

■ Superior Picture Performance

Excellent Brightness and Contrast

The LMD-230W and LMD-170W monitors utilize WXGA LCD panels
to provide high-brightness and high-contrast images with natural color
reproduction. Incorporating a color filter with broad color gamut, these
monitors display outstanding natural images.

Interpolation Technology – X Algorithm

This new “X Algorithm” technology delivers impressive improvements
in picture quality. Jaggy noise, which often occurs on the edge
of moving objects in pictures, is effectively removed. Traditionally,
standard-definition video signals are converted from interlace signals
into progressive signals through the formation of a frame picture with
two field pictures. This often results in jagged shape noise along the
oblique direction of fast-moving objects. To overcome this, the
“X Algorithm” technology detects motion and, through comparison of
the oblique pixels above, below, and adjacent to the moving part,
inserts a new line. This reproduces images smoothly, such as a
fluttering flag with moving oblique lines. X Algorithm is especially
effective for low-resolution images.

Conventional technology X Algorithm

(image picture)

Wide Viewing Angle

The LCD panel has a wide viewing angle of 170 degrees, horizontally
and vertically, enabling images to be viewed from various positions and
angles.

AR-Coated Protection Panel

The LCD panel is protected from various types of damage by a highly
durable protection panel. The panel has an anti-reflection (AR) coating
with a high-transmission rate that reduces the effects of outside light.