TCO certifies the monitors that comply with its standards in ergonomy and keeps a trace of the registered products in its database.
So if you want to find all the products manifactured by a certain firm you can do a simple search by brand, product name or certificate and find whatever the firm has brought to TCO to obtain the certification.
As you may probably know the certification is released before the product reaches the market and is done on final versions of it so that it complies exactly with the models the consumer is going to buy.
Our reader Christos Robotis made a search on the TCO database for work purposes and incidentally discovered that, among well know and old products from Apple, it is possible to find a new one that obtained certification in 2002 (on the 21st of November) and is called “Cinema HD Display”.
Nor a 20.1″ display exists in Apple’s monitors line up neither a “Cinema HD” denomination for this dimensions has been heard before.
So What?
It seems that, following the “go gigantic” trend of Apple started with PowerBook G4 with 17″ display, we’ll have (when? no crystal ball here…) a big flat display with “Wide” screen ratio to comply the HD and Cinema definition in the name, bigger than the 19″ flat screen that has been rumoured for some time.
So 20.1 inches, Cinema HD and a1038 model name is all we know for now.
If we use the same DPI ot the new 17″ Powerbook we can obtain a 1920×1080 pixel screen that results in a diagonal of 20.1″. And 1920×1080 pixel is the exact definition of HDTV in USA.
So Cinema could stay for wide screen aspect ratio and HD for the HDTV pixel ratio a pixel count: it would be a nice tool for HD Editing software that Apple is promoting with FCPRO and a great screen for watching DVDs and do video Editing, web design or DTP with two pages side by side and still room for extra tools.
If you want to check and see yourself the data found by our reader just go this page
http://tco.networks.nu/index_publicsearch.htm and make a search with Apple in the manifacturer field.
Too bad it doesn’t work with our IE o Safari browsers on Mac OS X and we had to do a screenshot with IE on Windows… another web site to advice Apple of Safari’s compatibility and maybe the reason why Apple rumours sites didn’t catch the news before!
MacityNet is not a rumor site – all the informations above are only free opinions on the actual findings of one of our readers.
