G710 Monitor (ADI G710)

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Product:	ADI G710
Date:	29/11/00 (26 review reads)
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Advantages: High refresh rates.

Disadvantages: Colours a little washed.

Most monitors now use a push button onscreen display to adjust settings. They’re more accurate but less easy to use than old-fashioned dials, so I was happy to see that the ADI MicroScan G710 manages to use both systems.

There’s an excellent menu system featuring advanced controls such as convergence, and horizontal and vertical moire. And beneath the front face lurk a couple of brightness and contrast rotary controls.

Having said that, I didn’t actually need to use many of the adjustment possibilities the G710 makes available. The FD Trinitron Pure Flat tube produces sharp, clear and distortion-free images, and high refresh rates help a lot too. My preferred mode of 1,152 x 864 is displayed at 99Hz, while even the highest resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 is supported at flicker-free 75Hz.

Colours aren’t so great, though, feeling a little washed out compared to the competition, regardless of any adjustment. An unusual extra is the built-in microphone, and you can purchase optional clip-on speakers or a USB hub at a later date for just a few pounds. Which would be fine, except I think they should be thrown in. This is a good monitor, but just a little too expensive to compete with the best of the rest.

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