KDS Rad-5 15" LCD Monitor

Product Description

The beautifully designed yet affordable RAD-5 series analog LCD panel is perfect for replacing your old conventional CRT monitor. It is an "a-Si TFT LCD panel" with a 15.0 diagonal panel size. The RAD-5 features a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 at 75Hz for outstanding brightness and incredible color. This LCD panel may also be taken off the stand and wall-mounted.

Amazon.com Product Description

This sleek and stylish LCD monitor brings both increased flexibility and impressive clarity to your desktop, all for a great low price. The small 6.2-by-14.1-inch stand is easily removable, leaving the 6-inch-deep screen free to mount on the wall. No matter where it lives, this monitor provides a full 15 inches of totally flat viewing. To further reduce clutter, the power and signal inputs are supplied through a single 15-pin cable.

A maximum noninterlaced resolution of 1,024 x 768 combines with a 0.297mm dot pitch and 16 million colors to bring you clear, accurate images, perfect for a wide variety of home and business applications. Additionally, a 300:1 contrast ratio and 250 cd/m of brightness help to bring the images on screen vividly to life.

You can easily adjust settings using intuitive onscreen controls, including brightness, contrast, horizontal/vertical position, and color temperature. An anti-reflective screen coating helps to cut glare and to reduce annoying eyestrain.

The Rad-5 is both TCO '99 and Energy Star compliant, with a power consumption rating of only 32 watts maximum. The manufacturer includes a generous three-year warranty that covers both parts and labor. As a bonus, a shiny silver mouse cover is included, which matches the space-age display frame.

Customer Reviews:

How to Start up the monitor, i mean where to do you plug in.......2004-01-13

how do you start the screen up , i mean where do you plug in the wire . please if you can help me with that e-mail me how to do it.
ASAP thanks
Howyoudoing699@aol.com

Thank Goodness for the Replacement Warranty!.......2003-12-02

I purchased this monitor based on a review in Fortune magazine (a mistake to begin with) and the irresistable price.

The image needed considerable tweaking after I unpacked the monitor, but after downloading the driver from KDS it looked fine and does not have the flicker of my laptop.

The first monitor lasted for a few months, but the screen began to go bad from right to left, then completely died. The warranty provided 3 years parts and service and returning the defective monitor was painless. The second monitor died with a bad on/off switch. Ditto for the third. I'm now on my fourth monitor and this whole process started less than two years ago! When this one dies I'll purchase from another manufacturer. I'm only willing to put up with this for so long...

Excellent monitor for the price.......2003-11-05

My own experience with this monitor has been nothing short of excellent: cheap price, free mouse, excellent display quality. I've noticed that the people who knock this monitor don't mention what resolution or refresh rate they're running at. They probably don't realize that most LCDs are designed only to run at a specific resolution and that if you change resolutions, characters become "blocky" and the entire display becomes fuzzy. This monitor's optimal display resolution is 1024x768 at a refresh rate of 60Hz. You have to remember, CRTs and LCDs are different types of technology. LCDs don't actually refresh the same way that CRTs do, hence you can get away with a lower refresh rate. As for the guy who said you can't tilt this monitor and that you have to stick a piece of paper under the stand, I'm speechless. One other thing, the response time on this monitor is pretty fast. I can play games like Unreal Tournament or watch DVDs on it with no ghosting whatsoever. KDS has been known to be a cheap brand, but sometimes you just have to give credit where credit is due. The Rad-5 truly is an excellent monitor, especially if you consider how much you pay for it.

Beware.......2003-09-24

This company recently stopped selling computers but didn't tell their customers, nor did they cancel the orders or refund the charges for orders not shipped yet. So beware. It's safe to buy from Amazon.com, no doubt, but if your monitor is dead after Amazon's 30-day warranty, you may be wishing you hadn't bought this.

Review from an objective point of view!.......2003-09-16

Reviews are often times a series of dialogues between their writers. I don't intend to trump any one of them. I only want to give an unbiased account of my poor experience with this monitor. It arrived early and at a competetive price from Amazon. Thumbs up to Amazon for that part. But then "plug and play" turned into more than 3 hours of unsuccessful troubleshooting and a very poor monitor. On my first computer the image was horrible. All icons on the desktop had blue and red shadows, the text was next to impossible to read, and the overall image quality unacceptable! I hooked it up to two other newer computers and received the same results. I can't believe KDS can sell this kind of product to people and receive positive reviews. I am not too demanding which is why I opted for its bargain price. But we can expect at very least some decent quality. Both my 3 year old Dell laptop and the 6 year old CRT monitor that I wanted to replace had superior quality over the KDS. I bought another CRT monitor and will probably stay with it until quality and affordabliity in LCD's improves!

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