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| Thread ID: 89301 | 2008-04-26 23:12:00 | LCD monitors - which one?? | jwil1 (65) | Press F1 |
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| 662963 | 2008-04-26 23:12:00 | I want to buy a 22" LCD monitor (to replace my ageing 15" CRT :eek:). I have $400 to spend (will go to $450 MAX) on this. The AOC 210V seems to be the best one I've found so far - $385 from Ascent (I know it has quite bad colour fringing but I found a guide to calibrate it - seems to be a "different beast" after calibration from what I've read). Any other brands/models for my price range? |
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| 662964 | 2008-04-26 23:22:00 | Hav you looked on Price Spy? | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 662965 | 2008-04-26 23:53:00 | I love my 19" Samsung SyncMaster 940N gives me great colour I know its not 22" but hey they make them, not sure on price though as mine was a $20 upgrade from a 17" at the time I bought this PC which was before I started building my own. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 662966 | 2008-04-27 01:53:00 | I want to buy a 22" LCD monitor (to replace my ageing 15" CRT :eek:). I have $400 to spend (will go to $450 MAX) on this. The AOC 210V seems to be the best one I've found so far - $385 from Ascent (I know it has quite bad colour fringing but I found a guide to calibrate it - seems to be a "different beast" after calibration from what I've read). Any other brands/models for my price range? You do get what you pay for with LCD monitors, and that is a brand I would never touch. The cheap ones have inconsistent backlighting, and shading, and backlights that give the colours a blue or red tinge. It really depends on what you need it for. If you are doing a lot of photoshop work and colour is important, you shouldn't buy a cheap TN monitor, as the colours are inferior and they use dithering to emulate 16.7 million colours, in that case you would need a PVA or IPS monitor which you pay more for. If you are doing gaming and general computer work processing eg., then it probably doesn't matter what monitor to go with, but if it's review state it has bad colour fringing, I fail to understand how you would consider it to be the best. Samsungs newer 22 inch monitor does get good reviews (not the older 226BW model), and you can get it for around your price. |
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| 662967 | 2008-04-27 04:02:00 | www.atomicmpc.com.au We’ve often been harsh on the 22" budget segment – particularly when there are monitors that don’t deliver. Heave a sigh of relief then, because AOC’s 210V is quite marvellous indeed, and we can be nice once more. But: It employs Chimei’s CMO M220Z1 L01 panel. Which just put me off it forever. And: .....the monitor able to display the shades from 1 to 253 in the 255 greyscale tests, and colour gradients were excellent except for the green, which started to band noticeably towards the dark end of the scale. The OSD is annoyingly laggy and as a consequence is a pain to navigate.... |
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| 662968 | 2008-04-27 04:26:00 | Thanks for the feedback guys. Also I forgot to say before that it needs both VGA and DVI inputs. What do you think of this one? (ascent.co.nz) (Viewsonic VA2226w) |
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| 662969 | 2008-04-27 05:54:00 | Thanks for the feedback guys . Also I forgot to say before that it needs both VGA and DVI inputs . What do you think of this one? ( . co . nz/productspecification . aspx?ItemID=360125" target="_blank">ascent . co . nz) (Viewsonic VA2226w) You should check out this LCD monitor forum, as it tells you everything . hardforum . com/forumdisplay . php?f=78" target="_blank">www . hardforum . com |
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| 662970 | 2008-04-27 06:15:00 | I've just received my May copy of NZ PCWorld and some 22inch widescreen LCD monitors are reviewed including an AOC. | bellbird (6169) | ||
| 662971 | 2008-04-27 06:28:00 | What do you think of this one? (ascent.co.nz) (Viewsonic VA2226w) Much Better. Pretty much all the monitors have boyth connectors, just check the specs before you decide. |
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| 662972 | 2008-04-27 06:28:00 | I've just received my May copy of NZ PCWorld and some 22inch widescreen LCD monitors are reviewed including an AOC. What models are they reviewing?? (I dont have a subscription) |
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