We even upgraded to the latest Intel drivers but the issue still persisted. The only reason we mention it is to warn people running the Intel standard graphics drivers that this monitor may not work for you. This isn’t a detractor to the quality of the monitor at all. The Medion notebook we used has a Geforce 9300MG card and worked perfectly but the Acer is running an Intel Mobile 4 Express Graphics chipset and failed to properly display the desktop. It appears the issue lies directly with the graphics driver in the Acer. We tested with a different notebook and found that the problem disappeared. Also, the sharpness of the image dropped to poor levels making the image look dirty and unusable.

Therefore we were unable to see the far left, right and top of the screen. While we were able to set the desktop to 1920×1080, the monitor refused to correctly show the entire thing, believing itself to be a 1680×1050 monitor. When running to the monitor in HDMI, we ran into problems. The automatic adjustment feature, while good, wasn’t perfect. The clock phasing was slightly out and the colours needed to be adjusted to achieve optimal grey. There were a few minor issues which needed to be corrected. We were surprised to find that the image quality was mostly excellent. Our first tests were over an analogue DSub connection which we expected to have issues due the conversion taking place to digital. We tested the monitor by connecting it to an Acer Aspire 4810T notebook at the native resolution of 1920×1080. However, while it can achieve impeccable image quality, it isn’t without a fight to get it. The 2309m has a native resolution of 1920×1080 making it perfect for watching Blu-ray films. It seems the current trend of monitors is to offer an all-in-one solution to allow users to connect not only a PC but a Blu-ray player or other HDMI enabled device.

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