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Thread ID: 61298 2005-08-31 05:00:00 Which LCD would you choose ? Overdrive_5000 (4950) Press F1
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384875 2005-08-31 05:00:00 Hi people im looking at buying a new LCD monitor, have kinda narrowed my options done to 2 this one (www.etccomputers.co.nz) and this one (etccomputers.co.nz). This would be my first LCD monitor and it would be mainly used for gaming. Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated. So which one would you choose ?? :) Overdrive_5000 (4950)
384876 2005-08-31 05:05:00 I simply would not buy an LCD monitor without a zero bright pixel warranty, which only the Philips appears to have. godfather (25)
384877 2005-08-31 05:07:00 Definately the Phillips from your options posted - other good brands are Samsung and ViewSonic HadO (796)
384878 2005-08-31 05:11:00 thats what I thought but i noticed the other one can display 16.7 million colours where as the philips can only display 16.2 will that be a noticable difference ? Overdrive_5000 (4950)
384879 2005-08-31 05:14:00 Probably just a typo - both will be able to do 32bit colour. HadO (796)
384880 2005-08-31 05:31:00 And you are going to count the number of different colours? "I want my money back: it only displays 16,699,999 colours". Graham L (2)
384881 2005-08-31 05:34:00 Well no, but I was wondering if the difference in colours would be noticeable to the human eye ? Overdrive_5000 (4950)
384882 2005-08-31 05:44:00 I doubt it unless it's a superhuman eye. In fact, it would take a pretty good measuring instrument to tell a difference. The colours shown by two "identical" monitors would differ by more than that. However, it's 24 bit colour, not 32. 8 bits for each of R, G, B. The decimal number of different colours will be "something over 16 million". (I can never be bothered to look up or work out the exact conversion unless it matters.) Graham L (2)
384883 2005-08-31 08:14:00 I bought the Phillips 170B6 about a month ago.

My first LCD....can't fault it.....Mrs brig will order her one next month :-)
brig (1359)
384884 2005-08-31 09:24:00 Here's another vote for Philips - 3 year on-site warranty provided you are witihin 25km of a Next Electronics service centre. Mrs A93 has a Philips LCD - it's a good monitor & LCD's are fine for games too provided your graphics card is up to it.
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