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Viewsonic VA2231wm-LED
With the Viewsonic VA2231wm-LED ($140 street) you get bright colors, dark blacks, and a crisp high definition picture for under $150. The 21.5 inch TN+ panel can't display the brightest shades of gray, however, and it's missing one of the most widely used digital inputs. On the plus side, it won't put a strain on your electric bill.
Design and Features
The VA2231wm's 1,902-by-1,080 TN+ panel is shrouded in a matte black cabinet with glossy black bezels that are 0.76 inches wide. At 2.5 inches the cabinet is fairly thick for an LED backlit monitor, especially when compared with the Acer S230HL ($189 list, 3 Stars), which is only one-inch deep at its thickest point. The bottom bezel curves downward on the center to accommodate five function buttons; a power switch, menu and input select keys, and two OSD navigation buttons. One of the buttons doubles as a hot key for adjusting contrast and one adjusts the speaker volume. The 2 watt speakers are typical monitor issue; they don't get very loud, and they lack bass, but they are adequate for low volume listening.
You don't get an HDMI port with the VA2231wm, which is unfortunate considering most game consoles and other entertainment devices use HDMI as their primary output. What you do get is one DVI and one VGA input and an audio-in jack, all of which are located on the rear of the cabinet. Other features such as USB ports, a webcam, and a height adjustable stand are not available on this model. The shiny black oval base does allow you to tilt the panel, however.
Picture settings are limited; in addition to Contrast, Brightness, and Dynamic Contrast Ratio controls there are five Color Temperature presets (sRGB, 9300k, 7500k, 6500k, 5000k) and a User setting that lets you create your own custom color setting by adjusting red, green, and blue values. There are also three ECO mode settings including Standard, Optimize, and Conserve. In Standard mode the VA2231wm used 17 watts of power during my testing, while Optimize used 15 watts and Conserve used 12 watts. Although screen brightness is diminished in Conserve mode the picture is still bright enough for most lighting environments. As such, the VA2231wm's low power characteristics earn it our Greentech stamp of approval.
Viewsonic covers the VA2231wm-LED with a three year warranty that includes parts, labor, and backlighting. The monitor comes with a CD containing drivers and a user manual, DVI and VGTA cables, and an audio cable.
Performance
The VA2231wm-LED provides bright, bold colors and dark blacks. Colors ramped smoothly from dark to light on the DisplayMate Color Scales test and skin tones were natural looking on my blu-ray test video, 2012. The panel did an adequate job of displaying each shade of dark gray on the 64-Step Grayscale test but light grays were clipped at the high end of the scale and appeared white. As a result, highlight detail on my test photos was washed out. Small text (5.3 points) was legible but not quite as clean as what I observed with the Acer S230HL.
The panel's five-millisecond (black-to-white) pixel response helped deliver smooth game play; the PC version of Duke Nukem Forever looked crisp and did not show any obvious motion artifacts such as ghosting or blurring. Off angle viewing was good for a TN+ panel; there was some color shifting when viewed from the far end of either side but the effect was not as severe as it was with the HP 2311gt ($299.99 list, 3 Stars).
The Viewsonic VA2231wm-LED will appeal to energy-conscious users on a budget. It delivers a bright, colorful picture with solid blacks and it does it without using a lot of power. Light grayscale performance is lacking, however, and features are scarce. An HDMI port would be a welcome addition here. The IPS-based Asus VS229H-P ($160 list, 4 Stars), on the other hand, is only $20 more and offers superior color, grayscale, and viewing angle performance, and it has HDMI, DVI, and VGA ports. That's why the Asus VS229H-P remains our Editors' Choice for budget monitors.
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Philips Fidelio SoundRing
The Philips Fidelio SoundRing, a speaker system armed with Apple's wireless streaming AirPlay, uses its eye-catching circular design to fill a room with sound. Its front and back panels use identical pairs of full-range drivers, so whether you're in front or in back of the speaker, you ears have a direct line to the sound. Unfortunately, the $299.99 SoundRing distorts at high volumes, and generally behaves like a far less expensive speaker. The SoundRing ?is good-looking and offers quality audio at moderate volumes, but the inflated price tag is because of the AirPlay functionality, not because of the speaker system's audio performance.
Design
The SoundRing, like nearly all AirPlay docks, is black with chrome accents, and has very few controls. The donut-shaped speaker, which can be removed from its small, circular base that also acts as a stand, measures 8.3 by 7.6 by 4.5 inches (HWD) when sitting in the charging base. It's portable in a room-to-room sense, but it only works in AirPlay mode when undocked, and doesn't seem ideal for outdoor use?primarily because it needs access to your home Wi-Fi network to stream audio, and also because the black portions of the speaker are cloth, covering the array of four 1.5-inch drivers. When not docked in the stand, the speaker can still sit upright thanks to a flat lower panel.
A thin metallic band along the center of the speaker's top panel (when upright) houses the Power, Play/Pause, and Volume buttons. The back panel of the ring houses a USB port, a 3.5mm Aux input, and a Wi-Fi Setup button that, along with an LED on the front panel, underneath the black cloth, flashes different colors to indicate connection status. The SoundRing has no remote control, but comes with a 3.5mm audio connection cable and a power adapter.
The manual claims that if you've stopped any AirPlay streaming music and have nothing connected via USB to the rear port, the system automatically defaults to the 3.5mm Aux input. But there is no indicator for this, and our review unit didn't play nice with any device connected via 3.5mm. This is a design issue more than anything else?if you have multiple sound source options, you should have a source button like just about all of the competition has.
Performance
At moderate volumes, the Philips Fidelio SoundRing provides quality audio perfomance on tracks that don't challenge it with deep bass. Less heavy rock songs, classical and instrumental music, and other less bass-intense genres are delivered with a strong emphasis on midrange frequencies. The result is crisp, clean sound, and as long as deep bass doesn't enter the equation, the SoundRing sounds quite nice even at close to maximum volume, albeit not like a $300 system.
Trouble comes in the form of low frequencies. Even at about 75 percent volume, the Knife's "Silent Shout", a particularly bass-heavy track, distorts in ugly ways. At maximum volume, it sounds like the drivers are about to explode. This is clearly not a system for bass-lovers, but moreover, this distortion shouldn't be happening in this price range.
Sticking to less challenging tracks?in terms of low end?is the key to getting the most out of the SoundRing. John Adams' modern classical piece, "The Chairman Dances," benefits a little from the focus on mid-range frequencies. But much of the beautiful resonance of lower-register stringed instruments and percussion feels thin or absent on the SoundRing, while higher-frequency content, like wood block hits, is delivered cleanly and loudly.
If you don't listen to tracks with deep bass, the SoundRing will likely disappoint far less, but there are some usability issues as well. Aside from the aforementioned difficulty with listening to 3.5mm aux input sources (we had no trouble at all using the USB port to both charge and listen to an iPhone 4S), the setup process is a drag. We won't detail the process here, but it's tedious, and makes you do some back-end work in Safari that a free app could handle after you enter your Wi-Fi network's name and password. Much of the competition, like the Altec Lansing inAir 5000 Wireless AirPlay Speaker ($499.95, 4 stars), has opted to use an app instead?the resulting setup is usually more user-friendly, and typically much quicker. This is most likely a one-time annoyance, but worth noting.
To put it bluntly, the Philips Fidelio SoundRing sounds like a fantastic $150 speaker dock. The problem is, it costs twice that, and it doesn't provide a very polished experience. We've seen this before with the JBL OnBeat Air ($249.95, 3.5 stars)?speakers that have boosted prices because the inclusion of AirPlay technology is so costly. You end up with a speaker worth far less than the final, inflated price, at least in terms of audio quality. This isn't the case with all AirPlay docks, but the strongest systems, like the Klipsch Gallery G-17 Air ($549.99, 4 stars) and Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air ($599.95, 4 stars), have hefty prices that reflect the great internal speakers as well as the AirPlay functionality. For our money, the best wireless speaker system doesn't use AirPlay, however?the Bluetooth JBL OnBeat Xtreme ($499.95, 4.5 stars) is our current Editors' Choice.
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NY, Belfast protests try to save death-row dog
By Jim Gold, msnbc.com
Updated 8 p.m. ET Sunday: A?two-year international effort to save Lennox, a Belfast, Northern Ireland, death-row dog whose owners say was mistaken for a pitbull, moves to New York on Monday as?protests?in his homeland appear to be going nowhere.
An international protest Saturday in Belfast,?where the animal is slated to be euthanized this?week, according to media reports, included demonstrators who flew in from the U.S., England and Dublin, UTV in Belfast reported.
Victoria Stilwell, host?of ?It?s Me or the Dog? on the Animal Planet network,?offered to?find?Lennox a new home in the United States, all expenses paid, but on?Sunday?she told msnbc.com her quest went unanswered.
Protesters organized by No Kill New York animal-saving group plan to target British and Irish consulates Monday in New York to prevent the dog's killing.
The Belfast City Council declared Lennox had a severe personality disorder, but his?owners, the Barnes family, say he is a well-handled family pet.
The 7-year-old dog was seized in 2010 as a breed banned under the UK?s Dangerous Dog act.
The dog?s owners say he is an American bulldog-Labrador cross, but dog wardens after measuring his legs and snout declared Lennox?a ?possible pitbull type.?
No complaints had been made against the dog, according to media reports, and the Barnes family has been unable to see the dog.
The Court of Appeal last month rejected a plea spare the dog, being held in a secret location, the Belfast Telegraph reported.?
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Dog trainer and television presenter Victoria Stilwell
Protesters say theyare trying to raise awareness not only about Lennox but also to show that ?breed specific legislation? is unfair.
Lennox?s plight is documented on a Save Lennox website and on a Facebook page with more than 75,000 fans. Expressions supporting the dog are also posted on Twitter.
The dog?s cause also is championed by?Stilwell, who traveled to Belfast last week to?consult with the Barnes family and with Belfast officials to stop the euthanizing and allow the dog to be brought to a new home in the United States.
?It is important to understand that every possible legal avenue to release Lennox back to the family has been exhausted, and that result is no longer an option,? Stillwell posted on her website. ?Indeed, the latest news is that he is scheduled to be euthanized next week. My heart goes out to Craig, Caroline and Brooke [Barnes] for what they are enduring.?
On Sunday, she told msnbc.com in an eamiled statement:
?Despite my repeated public and private requests for a meeting with the Belfast City Council to discuss positive alternatives to the euthanasia of Lennox, they have inexplicably refused to even discuss these possibilities with me, the family or their legal team. Although I?ve previously given the benefit of the doubt about the BCC?s motives, I now fear that their collective decision-making has been clouded by personal and potentially vindictive reasoning while exhibiting an unreasonable obstinance to even exploring positive solutions. I sincerely hope they relent and accept my offer of an all-expenses paid, face-saving rehoming process for this poor dog.?
The Barnes family, in a?statement posted on Facebook and the Save Lennox website,?earlier?wrote, ?the fight to spare Lennox?s life may well be over. It has been almost impossible for us to accept that we have to admit defeat.?
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