IDEK SHIPS 17-INCH VISIONMASTER COLOR MONITOR FOR $799

Lowest-Priced Full-Featured Monitor Capable of 1280 x 1024 at 80 Hz

WARMINSTER, Pa., (April 11, 1994) -- IDEK Iiyama North America today
announced it has begun shipping the new VisionMaster 17, the most
aggressively priced full-featured 1 7-inch color monitor on the market.

The Energy Star-compliant VisionMaster 17 (MF-8617) is a flat square tube
(FST) monitor with a .26mm dot pitch, 1280 x 1024 display at 80 Hz and the
widest range of graphics display compatibility among 1 7-inch monitors. It
features a bezel-mounted LCD panel indicating graphics resolution and
display controls. The monitor also has power management controls that work
with any computer and exceed Energy Star standards.

The suggested retail price of the VisionMaster 17 is $799. It is available
immediately from IDEK Iiyama North America and through IDEK's authorized
value-added-resellers located nationwide.

"Until now, 17-inch monitors below $1,000 were limited by their display,
graphics compatibility and quality -- compromises in engineering, scan
rate and resolution compatibility brought the product in at a low price,"
said Chuck Roessler, president of IDEK Iiyama North America. "IDEK has
broken the $1,000 street price barrier for a top-quality monitor."

The new VisionMaster 17s have automatic scanning control capable of
displaying all resolutions found in standard PCs, Macintoshes and
workstations, plus compatibility with nearly all high-resolution
third-party graphics display cards. Horizontal refresh rates are among the
widest found in today's 17-inch monitors, ranging from 23.5 to 86
kilohertz (kHz). Maximum display resolution of the monitor is 1280 x 1024
(1152 x 870 @ 75 kHz Macintosh).

In addition to a .26mm dot pitch, the VisionMaster 17 has a FST with an
anti-glare, antistatic coating for easier viewing in most lighting
conditions.

VisionMaster 17s are fully compliant with all U.S. and international
standards for low electromagnetic field emissions, including the stringent
Swedish MPR II standards.

The monitor has microprocessor-based control buttons allowing 14 user
adjustments. The user can change geometric distortion controls such as
raster rotation, pincushion and trapezoid (phase) control; color
calibration to match Pantone and device output color samples; and several
other display controls. The monitor has an integrated tilt and swivel
base.

The VisionMaster 17 can be connected to a system via BNC connectors or a
D-sub 15-pin connector. This allows the monitor to be hooked up to two
different systems simultaneously, such as a PC and a Macintosh or a
desktop and laptop computer, permitting the user to switch between
systems.

The IDEK Power Management System reduces power consumption from 110 watts
(normal) to 6 watts in sleep mode. The power management system is
programmable at intervals of 5, 15, 30, 60 minutes or disengaged. The IDEK
uses any conventional screen-saver to activate the power saving feature,
allowing it to work with systems equipped with either DPMS and non-DPMS
graphics cards and systems. Most Energy Star monitors require DPMS
graphics cards to provide power management.

The VisionMaster 17s come with a three-year warranty covering all parts and
labor when purchased from an authorized dealer. IDEK also announced it
will offer an extended warranty that would cover the parts and labor for
the monitor for five years. For more information contact IDEK at 1 (800)
394-4355.

IDEK 17-inch monitors are used for Windows-based computing, graphics
display applications, including computer-aided design (CAD),
computer-aided engineering (CAE), desktop publishing, graphics design,
industrial control and presentations.

IDEK Iiyama North America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Iiyama Electric
Co. Ltd., based in Japan. Founded in 1973, Iiyama Electric specialized for
many years in the design and manufacture of color and monochrome
televisions and video displays. In 1987, IDEK pioneered the development of
autosynching, FST color monitors for the rapidly expanding world market of
computer graphics. Currently, IDEK offers a complete line of 15-, 17- and
21-inch FST color monitors to fit a wide variety of graphics applications,
including Windows, business graphics, multimedia and CAD/CAE.

IDEK Iiyama North America Inc
650 Louis Dr, Suite 120
Warminster, PA 18974
215-957-6543,  fax 215-957-6551

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