X-bit labs

Started by: Marvic | Date 10/30/07

Comments: 18 | Last Comment:  01/03/08

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1. Oleg Artamonov great reviews thanks for the reviews especially 20"-22" monitor...Now I can make decision which monitor that I should buy.

2. Philips 200WP = MVA?

TFT central reports this monitor to have an S-IPS (LM201W01) panel.

I also own this monitor myself, but I don't know exactly how to differentiate between the two types.

Theoretically, there may be 2 versions of 200WP7, one with S-IPS and one with MVA (AUO M201EW01) inside. Practically, I've never seen 200WP7 with S-IPS.

That may be correct, since I've seen different datasheets list 800:1 and 1000:1 contrast for the same product.

3. Oleg,

Some of us consumers aren't blessed with your eagle eyes, Oleg, me for example. I'm waiting for a high quality, affordable WUXGA monitor to appear that has a pixel pitch greater than that of my old Sony 19" SXGA to appear. The Sony SDM-X93 LCD has a pixel pitch of .295mm. I can barely read the smallest Internet text on the Sony these days. The smallest WUXGA monitor with a pixel pitch greater than this is 27", at .303mm. I don't figure to be backin' up to reduce grainess. I figure to be moving in to read the SOB.

Thanks for your LCD Guide.

Orille

4. How about the new hp models??
Like the hp w2207...

5. Can you just review the models that are 1920x1200 and really cheap? PLEASE, PLEASE.

I would like t see a review of the cheaper end 1920x1200 monitors sold on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010190020%201109909240&bop=And&Order=PRICE

6. What about the 30 inch Gateway with the upscarling chip built into it?

And they also include a 24" (which I own), amoung others. Why not mention it, even if you dislike it versus the other models?

7. I'm sorry but the 24" selection was rather poor.
Where is the BenQ FP241WZ?

8. A precise and excellent article. Without all the clumsy graph and response time chart, etc.

I wish this article is available sooner before I picked up the Samsung 226CW and return it in an hour because I cannot stand the poor viewing angle.

I am using a Samsung 172T (respond time is bad in today's standard) but the color does not change no matter where I view it. I will never buy a TN panel LCD.

Just don't understand all the great review on 225BW 226BE, 226CW. There is a hugh discussion about 225BW panel manufactured by 3 different vendors and people seems to think there is a big difference in quality. And they can live with the fact that moving their head up and down by 1-2 inches change the brightness by at least 20% ! Beyond me.

9. Why keep quoting a monitor out of production like 2407WFP? It is only because the new model, 2407WFP-HC is compromised with serious ghosting issues??

It is impossible found an 2407WFP NEW to sell in any place in the world! So, the logical is use the actual model to review. Even if is far inferior than old one. This is the honest thing to do!

10. Good article, but for me, a very important thing is missing when selecting a monitor: Input lag.
Why isn't it measured on the monitors ? Some of the Dell monitor's suffer badly from it and ghosting to, they might be cheap, but if they have a high input lag, they are useless.
Is there a reason, to why almost no big review sites test for it ? I can't believe a site this big, doesn't have a crt monitor and a camera..

11. One other thing that would be worth covering since it affects so many monitors is the problem of buzzing inverters for the backlights. If you turn the brightness below about 95 (corresponding to a 95% duty cycle in the inverter), many inverters start to buzz, with the pitch varying with the duty cycle. Try it now with your monitor, put your ear close to the monitor and vary the brightness from the default 95+ that the monitor is shipped with to lower values. The level of noticeability depends on the amount of ambient noise, in a quiet room it's *very* noticeable and very annoying. If you're lucky, your monitor will be OK, if not...

A google search will get thousands of hits for this, it occurs across all monitor brands and price classes so there's no sure way to avoid it except to keep RMA'ing the monitor until you get one that doesn't have the problem. Half-a-dozen RMAs to get a monitor that doesn't buzz with the brightness turned down aren't unheard of.

Unfortunately this problem gets very little coverage (the monitors ship factory pre-set to > 95% duty cycle where it's not noticeable and most users never change this setting), although it's quite a widespread problem.

12. I dont get why people always say "classic models are better for CAD/CAM applications"...can you clarify this?!

13. More Pixels for Pixels' sake isn't necessarily better. OS and games still don't scale GUI elements very well.
I liked my 19" at work over the home 17" because it was the same resolution but has larger pixels. Icons, menus and default text size are very nice.
You really have to double the resolution to better scale lower resolutions.

14. Are there any other differences in the newer 19" 940T panel than speed? I bought the newer 971P and while the image looks very beautiful, the ghosting is pretty bad some times. So I'd like to know if I should return it and swap for a 940T.

15. NEC MultiSync LCD1990SXi seems no longer available in uk

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