Philips 230C1

Philips is back with a 23 inch 2 ms full HD screen, that includes DVI, VGA and HDMI sockets as well as a pair of 2 x 2 watt speakers. Nice looking and reasonably priced, it's well worth a look.

It is similarly designed to the 220CW9, with a glossy black bezel and base socket and a grey metalic base. The bezel is underlain with a grey bar to disguise the speakers and gives it a very nice finish. Philips has again included a 1 port USB hub. The base is the 230C1’s weak point. The panel can only be tilted a few degrees and there's no pivot mode or even any way of adjusting it vertically. If the sound quality given by the built-in speakers isn’t what you’d like, there’s a headphones socket just under the speaker bar.